Explore 2115 historical events from 1920–1929.
André Ernest Paul Lagache was a French racing driver who, along with René Léonard, won the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923.
French drivers André Lagache and René Léonard completed the most laps during the first edition of the sports car race th
In June 1923, British settler Jasper Abraham was tried for the murder of African labourer Kitosh in the Kenya Colony. Kitosh had died after a flogging administered by Abraham and h…
Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to re
The Treaty of Lausanne is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–1923 and signed in the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The tr…
The Treaty of Lausanne was signed to settle part of the partition of the Ottoman Empire, establishing the boundaries…
Seamus Woods commanded a division of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during a period of intense conflict and was a senior leader of the newly formed Irish Free State army.
Seamus Woods leads an Irish Republican Army attack on the headquarters of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Belfast
The Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization, shortened to the Young Pioneers, was a youth organization of the Soviet Union for children and adolescents ages 9–14 that existed…
The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force of Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) f…
The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded
The Portuguese Naval Aviation constituted the air component of the Portuguese Navy, from 1917 to 1957. The Portuguese Air Force maritime patrol units and the Navy's Helicopter Squa…
Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic
The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United King…
The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces
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 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
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the coun…
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England,
Kingman Reef is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, geologically an atoll, 9.0 nmi (20 km) east-west and 4.5 nmi (8 km) north-south, in the North Pacific Ocean,…
The United States annexes the Kingman Reef
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, or the Railway Shopmen's Strike, was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States. Launched on July 1, 1922, by seven of the sixt…
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. It was named one of the ten best live music venues in the United States by …
The Hollywood Bowl opens.
The Japanese Communist Party is a major political party in Japan. Founded in 1922, it is the oldest active political party in the country. It had 250,000 members as of January 202…
The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
Lawrence Nicholas "Larry" Guarino was a United States Air Force officer, and veteran of three wars. Shot down on his 50th combat mission, he spent more than eight years as a prison…
Lawrence N
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the National Mall of Washington, D…
The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D
Åland is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland. Receiving its autonomy in 1920, it is the smallest region of Finland by both area and population (30,654), constituting …
Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Se
The Irish Free State, also known by its Irish name Saorstát Éireann, was the Irish state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, initially as a …
General election in the Irish Free State: The pro-Treaty Sinn Féin party wins a large majority
Field marshal (FM) has been the highest rank in the British Army since 1736. A five-star rank with NATO code OF-10, it is equivalent to an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy or…
British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War
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 is renamed the National Football League
Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans was a Belgian politician. He served as the prime minister of Belgium from 25 April 1974 until he resigned as minister on 20 October 1978. He was a …
Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2014)
Barbara Hale was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstan…
Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017)
Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of …
Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (died 1987)