1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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1920 - January. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor when a policeman arrests him for climbing without a permit January 10 - League of Nations holds ...

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See also: 1919 in sports, other events of 1920, 1921 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. 1920 in sports - Baseball Major League. January 3 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan, beginning the "Curse of the Bambino". This was the prelude to an extraordinary Major League season during which the Bambino would hit 54 home runs, Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman would be killed by a pitch from Carl Mays, and Eddie Cicotte and Sho ...

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The Russo-Japanese War accelerated the rise of political movements among all classes and the major nationalities, including propertied Russians. By early 1904, Russian liberal activists from the zemstva and from the professions had formed an organization called the Union of Liberation. In the same year, they joined with Finns, Poles, Georgians, Armenians, and Russian members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party to form an antiautocratic alliance. In January 1905, Father Georgiy Gapon, a Russian Orthodox priest who headed a police-spon ...

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Weimar Timeline - 1920. January 1920 The DAP grew to 190 members. February 4, 1920 Allies demand 900 Germans be handed over for war crimes. February 20, 1920 DAP changes name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party. February 1920 Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded. February 24, 1920 First public meeting of the NSDAP. March 13, ...

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1945 - January. January 3 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877) January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German poet (b. 1869) January 31 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920) 1945 - February. February 5 - Denise Bloch, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915) February 5 - Lilian Rolfe, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914) February 5 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921)See also:

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Bloody Sunday can refer to any of the following historical events (in chronological order): Bloody Sunday (1887), violence in London on 13 November 1887. Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War on 18 February 1900. Bloody Sunday (1905), massacre in Saint Petersburg on 22 January 1905. Bloody Sunday (1913), violence in Dublin on 31 August 1913 during the Dublin Lockout Bloody Sunday (1920), violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920. Bromberg Bloody Sun ...

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Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al Capone, was an infamous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card reportedly described him as a used furniture dealer. A Neapolitan born in New York, Capone began his career in Brooklyn before moving to Chicago and becoming Chicago's most notorious crime figure. By the end of the 1920s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had placed Capone on its "Most Wanted" list. Capone's downfall occurred in 1931 when he was ind ...

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Please remove this notice after the article has been expanded. Details are on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was an international conference, organized by the victors of the World War I for negotiating the peace treaties between the Allied and Associated Powers and the defeated Central Powers. The conference opened on January 18, 1919 and lasted until January 21, 1920 with a few intervals. Paris Peace Conference 1919 - Overview ...

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Prohibition was any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition - Prohibition in the United States. In the United States, Prohibition was accomplished by means of the Eighteenth Amendment to the national Constitution (ratified January 16, 1919) and the Volstead Act (passed October 28, 1919). Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. The Volstead Act was am ...

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Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. Alice Paul was born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College (BA, 1905), the New York School of Philanthropy (social work), and the University of Pennsylvania (MA, sociology). In 1907, Paul moved to England where she attended the Univer ...

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Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955) was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West. He was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah for one year, and then transferred to Harvard University, but interrupted his education to serve in World War I. After the war, he graduated in 1920. He began his career in 1922 as an English instructor at Northwestern University and began to write articles and novels, which often provoked controversy for their lib ...

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Image:000-MLB-Bob Lemon.jpg Robert Granville Lemon (September 22, 1920 - January 11, 2000) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. Born in San Bernardino, California, Lemon virtually had three careers in the baseball: one as a light-hitting left batter and sub-par third baseman, another as a stellar right-handed pitcher, an ...

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King Constantine I of the Hellenes (2 August 1868 - 11 January 1923), ruled Greece from 1913-1917 and from 1920-1922. Born 2 August 1868 in Athens, he was the eldest son of George I of Greece and Olga, Queen of Greece. As crown prince, Constantine was instrumental in the organization of the 1896 Summer Olympics, appointing a committee to prepare Athens for the Games and keeping a close watch to ensure that their tasks were completed. He succeeded to the throne of Greece on 1 ...

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Virginia Mayo (November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American film actress. Born in St. Louis, Missouri as Virginia Clara Jones, and tutored by a series of dancing instructors engaged by her aunt, she appeared in the St. Louis Municipal Opera chorus, then appeared with six other girls at an act at the Jefferson Hotel, where she was recruited by Andy Mayo to appear in his popular vaudeville act, as a ringmaster for two men in a horse suit. Virginia assumed the stage name of "Mayo" in the process. She appeared in Vaudeville for three years in the act, appearing with E ...

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Emir Mohammed Alim Khan (1880-1944) was the last emir of of the Manghit dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Bukhara in Central Asia. He reigned from January 3, 1911 to August 30, 1920. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russian Empire since 1873, the Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch. At the age of thirteen, Alim Khan was sent by his father Emir Abdulahad Khan to St. Petersburg for three years to study government and modern military techniques. In 1896, having received formal confirmation as Crown Princ ...

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Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He almost always collaborated with his wife Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984). The Hacketts came to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were en ...

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Walter Ernsting (13 June 1920 - 15 January 2005) was a German science fiction and fantasy author who mainly published under the pseudonym Clark Darlton. Walter Ernsting - Biography. After growing up in Koblenz, Ernsting was drafted into the German Wehrmacht shortly after the beginning of World War II. He served in an intelligence unit in Norway and on the Eastern Front where he was captured and spent several years as a prisoner of war in Siberia. After returning to Germany, Ernsting started to ...

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Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) (pronounced /'keɪsiː/) was an American psychic who channeled answers to questions on subjects such as astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in trance. He may have been the source for the idea that California would fall into the ocean (though he never said exactly this). Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Age moveme ...

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