Explore 3197 historical events from 1920–1929.
Ádám Politzer was a Hungarian and Austrian physician and one of the pioneers and founders of otology.
Ádám Politzer, Hungarian-Austrian physician and academic (born 1835)
Henry Daglish was an Australian politician who was the sixth premier of Western Australia and the first from the Labor Party, serving from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905. Daglish…
Henry Daglish, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia (born 1866)
Raymond Johnson Chapman was an American professional baseball player. He spent his entire career as a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians of the American League.
Ray Chapman, American baseball player (born 1891)
Anders Leonard Zorn was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. His portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and th…
Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (born 1860)
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philo…
Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1832)
Robert Emmett Harron was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he appeared in over 200 films, he is perhaps best remembered for his roles in the D…
Robert Harron, American actor (born 1893)
Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC was the 12th premier of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.
Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (born 1855)
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, the country's unicameral legislature, first met in Ankara in the midst of the Tur
Raymond Johnson Chapman was an American professional baseball player. He spent his entire career as a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians of the American League.
Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit by a pitch and died the following day, becoming the only Major League…
The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council as an outgrowth of the Paris Peace Conference, held at Castle Devachan in Sanrem…
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandate
The 1920 blind march was a protest march from across the United Kingdom to London of 250 blind people. It was organised by the National League of the Blind (NLB) to protest poor wo…
A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, Lon
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the …
Russian Civil War: Relying on Red Army troops in neighboring Azerbaijan, the Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946. The Catholic kingdom emerged as a continuation of the Grand Princip…
The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72 percent of its territory and 64 percent of its population with the signing of the Treaty
Wang Lianying was a Chinese courtesan who was killed by Yan Ruisheng and his accomplices on 9 June 1920 outside of Shanghai in the Republic of China. Twenty-year-old Lianying had w…
The courtesan Wang Lianying (pictured) was murdered in Shanghai, leading to months of media and literary coverage
The 1920 Republican National Convention nominated Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding for president and Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge for vice president. The convention was hel…
During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel t
On June 15, 1920, three African-American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie, suspects in an assault case, were taken from the jail and lynched by a Whit…
Three African-American circus workers were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for h
The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty, also known as the Moscow Peace Treaty, was signed between Lithuania and Soviet Russia on July 12, 1920. In exchange for Lithuania's neutrality a…
The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty was signed, with Soviet Russia agreeing to recognize an independent Lithuania.
The Franco-Syrian War took place during 1920 between France and the Hashemite rulers of the newly established Arab Kingdom of Syria. During a series of engagements, which climaxed …
Franco-Syrian War: At the Battle of Maysalun forces of the Arab Kingdom of Syria were defeated by a French army moving…
The Franco-Syrian War took place during 1920 between France and the Hashemite rulers of the newly established Arab Kingdom of Syria. During a series of engagements, which climaxed …
Franco-Syrian War: At the Battle of Maysalun, forces of the Arab Kingdom of Syria were defeated by a French army…
Krishna Lal Adhikari was a Nepali author best known for publishing Makaiko Kheti (1920), a book about maize cultivation that was accused of being treasonous. He was sentenced to ni…
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the…
The Battle of Radzymin took place during the Polish–Soviet War (1919–21). The battle occurred near the town of Radzymin, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Warsaw, between Au…
The Battle of Radzymin, one of the bloodiest and most intense battles of the Polish–Soviet War, concluded with a…
The Blind Persons Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, since repealed. It provided a pension allowance for blind persons aged between 50 and 70, directed lo…
The British parliament's Blind Persons Act received royal assent.
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis o…
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the …
Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.