Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Michael Graham Ruddock Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, CBE was executive chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1977 to 1986.
Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, English lieutenant and banker (died 2017)
William Watts "Buck" Biggers was an American novelist and co-creator of the long-running animated television series Underdog.
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Colin Brittan was an English professional footballer who played for Bristol North Old Boys, Tottenham Hotspur and Bedford Town.
Colin Brittan, English footballer (died 2013)
Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician. His 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show. Randolph was a prolific session mus…
Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer (died 2007)
Henning Carlsen was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité. Carlsen's 1966 social-r…
Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer was an English actor. His roles in British television sitcoms include Jimmy Anderson in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in Butte…
Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (died 2020)
Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (born 1866)
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to …
Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also …
Harold Geiger, American pilot and lieutenant (born 1884)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much …
Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1876)
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1878)
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (born 1860)
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the…
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Hüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is known for landscapes with architectural features.
Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (born 1886)
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of h…
American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her pla
Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales that competes in EFL League One, the third tier of English football. The club will co…
Cardiff City defeated Arsenal 1–0 in the FA Cup final (match programme pictured) in the only time the FA Cup has been wo
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a divisio…
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in
The 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, formally the Treaty between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and Its Dependencies was signed between the United Kingdom and …
By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (pictured) over
The 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, formally the Treaty between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and Its Dependencies was signed between the United Kingdom and …
With the signing of the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over Hejaz and Nejd,
The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that Charles Lindbergh flew on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic…
Aboard the Spirit of St
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent film…
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement
Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser was a French ace pilot and adventurer. Nungesser was a renowned ace in France, ranking third highest in the country with 43 air combat victorie…
French aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli aboard the biplane L'Oiseau Blanc took off from Paris, attempting to
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing