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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.
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Confer…
The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded.
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…
In the United Kingdom, the Blind Persons Act received royal assent.
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Confer…
The American Professional Football Conference, a predecessor of the National Football League, was established in…
Križ is a village and a municipality of western Moslavina, located southeast from Zagreb, near Ivanić-Grad. In the 2011 Croatian census, the population of the Križ municipality num…
Peasants in and around Križ began a rebellion to protest economic and conscription policies enacted by the Kingdom of…
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army and British forces: the …
Irish War of Independence: British auxiliary police officers known as Black and Tans went on a rampage in Balbriggan,…
The 1920 Louisiana hurricane was a strong tropical cyclone that caused significant damage in parts of Louisiana in September 1920. The second tropical storm and hurricane of the an…
The Louisiana hurricane dissipated over Kansas after forcing around 4,500 people to evacuate and causing $1.45 million…
The Times Square Theater is a former Broadway and movie theater at 215–217 West 42nd Street, near Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New Y…
Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar…
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight later died of …
A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring…
Terence James MacSwiney was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested…
Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after a hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish…