1920s — en la historia
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1920
In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
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1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
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1920
Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
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1920
The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
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1920
The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
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1920
Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
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1920
Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.
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1920
The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
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1920
Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.
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1920
The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
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1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
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1920
King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
Constantine I of Greece · Kingdom of Greece · Alexander of Greece
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1920
The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
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1920
El Tratado de Paz Letón-Soviético, que renunciaba a la autoridad y pretensiones de Rusia sobre Letonia, se firma, terminando la Guerra de Independencia de Letonia.
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1920
Después de 74 días en huelga de hambre en la prisión de Brixton, Inglaterra, el alcalde Lord del Sinn Féin de Cork, Terence MacSwiney, muere.
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1920
The Free City of Danzig is established.
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1920
Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
Irish War of Independence · Irish Republican Army · Burning of Cork
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1920
El Tratado de Versalles entra en vigor, oficialmente poniendo fin a la Primera Guerra Mundial.
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1920
Se funda la Unión Americana por la Libertad Civil (ACLU).
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1920
Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
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1920
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
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1920
El décimo noveno artículo de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos es ratificado, garantizando el sufragio femenino.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution · Suffrage
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1920
Polish-Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
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1920
The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
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1920
Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
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1920
Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
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1920
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 · Great Lakes · Deep South
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1920
El Partido Comunista de Australia se funda en Sydney.
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1920
Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".
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1920
Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
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1920
The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
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1920
The Negro National League is formed.
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1920
Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
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1920
Dos guardias de seguridad son asesinados durante un robo en South Braintree, Massachusetts. Los anarquistas Sacco y Vanzetti serían condenados y ejecutados por el crimen, en medio de mucha controversia.
South Braintree, Massachusetts · Anarchism · Sacco and Vanzetti
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1920
Ofensiva de Kiev: tropas polacas al mando de Józef Piłsudski y Edward Rydz-Śmigły, asistidas por una fuerza ucraniana simbólica, capturan Kiev solo para ser expulsadas por la contraofensiva del Ejército Rojo un mes después.
Kiev Offensive (1920) · Second Polish Republic · Józef Piłsudski
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1920
The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
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1920
The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution · United States Constitution
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1920
El plan de desarrollo económico GOELRO es adoptado por el 8º Congreso de los Soviéticos de la RSS de Rusia.
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1920
France occupies Memel.
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1920
Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
Treaty of Moscow (1920) · Russian SFSR · Democratic Republic of Georgia
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1920
Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer and educator (b. 1864)
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1920
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
San Remo conference · Allies of World War I · League of Nations mandate
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1920
A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
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1920
The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
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1920
Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
Polish-Soviet War · Edward Rydz-Śmigły · Kiev Offensive (1920)
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1920
Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
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1920
Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1892)
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1920
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish state (b. 1856)
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1920
The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
Steel strike of 1919 · Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
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1920
The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
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1920
In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
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1920
Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
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1920
Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
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1920
Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
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1920
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
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1920
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
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1920
The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
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1920
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
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1920
William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
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1920
Comienza la construcción de la presa del río Link como parte del proyecto de Reclamación del Klamath.
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1920
The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000.
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1920
The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
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1920
The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
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1920
Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
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1920
Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
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1920
Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
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1920
Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
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1920
The Soviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
Soviet-Lithuanian Peace Treaty · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · Lithuania
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1920
The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio
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1920
El Senado de los Estados Unidos vota en contra de unirse a la Liga de Naciones.
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1920
Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
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1920
Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
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1920
Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (b. 1848)
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1920
Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
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1920
Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
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1920
Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
Irish War of Independence · Kilmichael Ambush · Irish Republican Army
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1920
Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
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1920
The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
Second Polish Republic · Silesian Voivodeship (1920-39) · Upper Silesia plebiscite
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1920
Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)
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1920
Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
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1920
The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
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1920
Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
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1920
Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)
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1920
Nancy Astor se convirtió en la primera mujer en hablar en la Cámara de los Comunes del Reino Unido después de su elección como Miembro del Parlamento (MP) tres meses antes.
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor · House of Commons of the United Kingdom
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1920
Durante la Convención Nacional Republicana de EE. UU. en Chicago, los líderes del Partido Republicano de EE. UU. se reunieron en una sala del hotel Blackstone para llegar a un acuerdo sobre su candidato para las elecciones presidenciales de EE. UU., lo que llevó a que la Associated Press acuñara la frase política "sala llena de humo".
1920 Republican National Convention · Republican Party (United States) · Blackstone Hotel
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1920
Max Klinger, German painter and sculptor (b. 1857)