Explore 864 historical events from 1920–1929.
Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginn…
Peggy Lee, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2002)
John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in…
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
George Clifton James was an American actor of film, theatre, and television. He was best known to screen audiences for his various character roles, including prison floorwalker Car…
Clifton James, American actor (died 2017)
Franklin James Schaffner was an American film, television, and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970), and is known for the films Planet of th…
Franklin J
Robert Irby Clarke was an American actor best known for his cult classic science fiction films of the 1950s. In succeeding decades he appeared in more conventional television, and …
Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (died 2005)
Yolande Donlan was an American-born British-based actress who worked extensively in the United Kingdom.
Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (died 2014)
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47. He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary…
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-German author and critic (died 2013)
Texas Earnest Schramm Jr. was an American professional football executive who was the original president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys franchise of the National Footbal…
Tex Schramm, American businessman (died 2003)
Johnny Speight was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.
Johnny Speight, English screenwriter and producer (died 1998)
Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was an Indian mathematician who worked during the early 20th century. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinit…
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887)
Frank Goad Clement was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st governor of Tennessee from 1953 to 1959 and from 1963 to 1967. Inaugurated for the first time at age…
Frank G
Princess Margaret of Connaught was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. Known in Sweden as Margareta, she was the elder daughter of Prince…
Princess Margaret of Connaught (born 1882)
Vincenzo Colosimo, known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal …
James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (born 1878)
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure…
William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (born 1837)
Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a U.S. representative from New York…
Levi P
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, known as Venustiano Carranza, was a Mexican land owner, revolutionary, and politician who served as the 44th President of Mexico from 1917 unt…
Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (born 1859)
Svetozar Boroević von Bojna was an Austro-Hungarian field marshal who was described as one of the finest defensive strategists of the First World War. He commanded Austro-Hungarian…
Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (born 1856)
Carlos Deltour, also known as Charles Deltour, was a Mexican-born French rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Carlos Deltour, French rower (born 1864)
Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali was a Bengali writer and reformer in British India.
Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali, Bengali writer and social activist (born 1858)
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
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