Explore 2114 historical events from 1920–1929.
Emmanuel Giovanni Salvatore Pietro Dimech, also known as Manwel Dimech was a Maltese socialist, philosopher, journalist, writer, poet and social revolutionary. Born in Valletta and…
Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (born 1860)
Laurence Ginnell was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP) of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of t…
Laurence Ginnell, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1852)
Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern, DL, PC was a British Conservative Party politician.
Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician (died 2024)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Mass…
Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (died 2014)
The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed on 16 April 1922 between Germany and Soviet Russia under which both renounced all territorial and financial claims against each other …
The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey is the unicameral legislative branch of the Turkish government. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives by the unitary Turkish …
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara
Robert Marshall Rosengarden was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and bandleader. A native of Elgin, Illinois, United States, he played on many recordings and in television o…
Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer and bandleader (died 2007)
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, where he dir…
Samuel P
Cleto Bellucci was an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church.
Cleto Bellucci, Italian archbishop (died 2013)
The 1929 Kopet Dag earthquake took place at 15:37 UTC on 1 May with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). It occurred in the Kopet Dag area of…
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Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. Its name has become synonymous with the American film industry and the peop…
In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place
A major structure fire occurred at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on May 15, 1929. Nitrocellulose X-ray film ignited in a basement storage room, emitting a…
A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123
The First Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1–12, 1929. Thirty-eight delegates, representing Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, El …
The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires
The Lateran Treaty was one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, agreements between Italy under King Victor Emmanuel III and Duce Benito Mussolini and the Holy See under Pope Piu…
The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be …
Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour
Roy Hamilton was an American singer. By combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling, he brought soul to Great American Songbook singing.
Roy Hamilton, American singer (died 1969)
Ralph Owen Slatyer was an Australian ecologist, and the first Chief Scientist of Australia from 1989 to 1992.
Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (died 2012)
Edward Benjamin Townsend was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He performed and composed "For Your Love", a rhythm and blues doo-wop classic, and co-wrote "Let's…
Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2003)
James Last was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra. Initially a jazz bassist, his trademark "happy music" made his numerous albums best-sellers in Ger…
James Last, German-American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 2015)
Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern, DL, PC was a British Conservative Party politician.
Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician (died 2024)
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-th…
Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (died 2019)
Murchison is a town in the Tasman Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is near the western end of the "Four Rivers Plain", at the confluence of the Buller River and the Mā…
The town of Murchison, New Zealand is rocked by a 7
Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 1927 to 1930 who improved bilateral relations, mediati…
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The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever …
The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in…
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It entered into fo…
The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
Sir Robert Wade-Gery was a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to India 1982–87.
Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (died 2015)
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, l…
George Steiner, French-American philosopher, author, and critic (died 2020)
Dame Yvette Winifred Corlett was a New Zealand track-and-field athlete who was the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the wom…
Yvette Williams, New Zealand long jumper, shot putter, and discus thrower (died 2019)
Richard Mitchell was a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late-1970s as the founder and p…
Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (died 2002)
Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova was a Russian discus thrower and the first Soviet Olympic champion.
Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus thrower and coach (died 2016)
Walter Kempowski was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical repor…
Walter Kempowski, German author and academic (died 2007)
Singanalluru Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj, better known by his stage name Dr. Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer who worked in Kannada cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest, most…
Dr
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe FAHA was a distinguished Australian composer and music educator. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighbouring Australi…
Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (died 2014)