Table of Contents
501 relations: Admiral, Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Alberto Sordi, Alexander of Greece, Alexius Meinong, Alf Ramsey, Alfonso XIII, Amália Rodrigues, Amedeo Modigliani, American Civil Liberties Union, American frontier, Amsterdam, An Wang, Anders Zorn, Ankara, Anna Anderson, Anthony Barber, Apollo 11, April, Arc de Triomphe, Arctic, Armin Hofmann, Arthur Hailey, Arthur Wint, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, August Krogh, Augustus F. Goodridge, Austria-Hungary, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Álvaro Obregón, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Baltic Sea, Bangladesh, Barend Biesheuvel, Battle of Britain, Battle of Warsaw (1920), Batumi, Belfast, Belgian Congo, Bella Abzug, Ben Bagdikian, Bill Reid, Black and Tans, Black Sea, Bloody Sunday (1920), Bolsheviks, Boris Vian, British Army, British Empire, ... Expand index (451 more) »
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.
See 1920 and Admiral
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier (May 8, 1839 – June 27, 1920) was a Canadian judge, author, and lyricist.
See 1920 and Adolphe-Basile Routhier
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter.
Alexander of Greece
Alexander (Αλέξανδρος, Aléxandros; 1 August 189325 October 1920) was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death in 1920.
See 1920 and Alexander of Greece
Alexius Meinong
Alexius Meinong Ritter von Handschuchsheim (17 July 1853 – 27 November 1920) was an Austrian philosopher, a realist known for his unique ontology and theory of objects.
Alf Ramsey
Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English football player and manager.
Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues (23 July 1920 – 6 October 1999), better known as Amália Rodrigues or popularly as Amália, was a Portuguese fadista (fado singer).
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France.
See 1920 and Amedeo Modigliani
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.
See 1920 and American Civil Liberties Union
American frontier
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912.
See 1920 and American frontier
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
An Wang
An Wang (February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990) was a Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor, and cofounder of computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines.
See 1920 and An Wang
Anders Zorn
Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist.
Ankara
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.8 million in Ankara Province, making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul, but first by the urban area (4,130 km2).
See 1920 and Ankara
Anna Anderson
Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
Anthony Barber
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
April
April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
See 1920 and April
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
See 1920 and Arctic
Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann (HonRDI) (29 June 1920 – 18 December 2020) was a Swiss graphic designer.
Arthur Hailey
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries.
Arthur Wint
Arthur Stanley Wint OD MBE (25 May 1920 – 19 October 1992) was a Jamaican Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot during the Second World War, sprinter, physician, and later High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995) was an Italian classical pianist.
See 1920 and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.
See 1920 and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
August Krogh
Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945.
Augustus F. Goodridge
Augustus Frederick Goodridge (c. 1839 – February 16, 1920) was a Newfoundland merchant and politician.
See 1920 and Augustus F. Goodridge
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991.
See 1920 and Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Álvaro Obregón
Álvaro Obregón Salido (17 February 1880 – 17 July 1928) was a Mexican military general and politician who served as the 46th President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: keʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək); 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya (IAST: Lokamānya), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist.
See 1920 and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Willem Biesheuvel (5 April 1920 – 29 April 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 6 July 1971 until 11 May 1973.
See 1920 and Barend Biesheuvel
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, "air battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
See 1920 and Battle of Britain
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
The Battle of Warsaw (Bitwa Warszawska; Варшавская битва, Varshavskaya bitva), also known as the Miracle on the Vistula (Cud nad Wisłą), was a series of battles that resulted in a decisive Polish victory in 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War.
See 1920 and Battle of Warsaw (1920)
Batumi
Batumi (ბათუმი), historically Batum or Batoum, is the second-largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey.
See 1920 and Batumi
Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
See 1920 and Belfast
Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Bella Abzug
Bella Savitzky Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998), nicknamed "Battling Bella", was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women's movement.
Ben Bagdikian
Ben-hur Haig Bagdikian (January 30, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an American journalist, news media critic and commentator, and university professor.
Bill Reid
William Ronald Reid Jr. (12 January 1920 – 13 March 1998) was a Haida artist whose works include jewelry, sculpture, screen-printing, and paintings.
Black and Tans
The Black and Tans (Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Bloody Sunday (Domhnach na Fola) was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence.
See 1920 and Bloody Sunday (1920)
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
Boris Vian
Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
Canadian Armed Forces
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; Forces armées canadiennes, FAC) are the unified military forces of Canada, including land, sea, and air commands referred to as the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
See 1920 and Canadian Armed Forces
Canonization of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina disponente,Pope Benedict XV, Divina Disponente (Latin), 16 May 1920, https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xv/la/bulls/documents/hf_ben-xv_bulls_19200516_divina-disponente.html.
See 1920 and Canonization of Joan of Arc
Carinthia (Slovenia)
Carinthia (Koroška; Kärnten), also Slovene Carinthia or Slovenian Carinthia (Slovenska Koroška), is a traditional region in northern Slovenia.
See 1920 and Carinthia (Slovenia)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (9 December 1920 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994 and the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.
See 1920 and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Charles Édouard Guillaume
Charles Édouard Guillaume (15 February 1861, in Fleurier, Switzerland – 13 May 1938, in Sèvres, France) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys.
See 1920 and Charles Édouard Guillaume
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski,; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Charles Daudelin
Charles Daudelin, (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a French Canadian pioneer in modern sculpture and painting.
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice.
See 1920 and Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer.
Chelmsford
Chelmsford is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England.
Chemical engineer
A chemical engineer is a professional equipped with the knowledge of chemistry and other basic sciences who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment.
See 1920 and Chemical engineer
Chilpancingo
Chilpancingo de los Bravo (commonly shortened to Chilpancingo;; Nahuatl: Chilpantzinco) is the capital and second-largest city of the Mexican state of Guerrero.
Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
Cobh
Cobh, known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland.
See 1920 and Cobh
Communist International
The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism, and which was led and controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
See 1920 and Communist International
Communist Party of Australia
The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian communist party founded in 1920.
See 1920 and Communist Party of Australia
Congress of Soviets
The Congress of Soviets was the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and several other Soviet republics from 1917 to 1936 and a somewhat similar Congress of People's Deputies from 1989 to 1991.
See 1920 and Congress of Soviets
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys (21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005), better known as Constant, was a Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician.
See 1920 and Constant Nieuwenhuys
Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
County Cork
County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.
County Kerry
County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.
County Limerick
County Limerick (Contae Luimnigh) is a western county in Ireland.
County Tipperary
County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland.
Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
See 1920 and Crimea
Croke Park
Croke Park (Páirc an Chrócaigh) is a Gaelic games stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Damascus
Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Dave Berg (cartoonist)
Dave Berg (June 12, 1920 in Brooklyn – May 17, 2002 in Marina del Rey, California) was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous.
See 1920 and Dave Berg (cartoonist)
Dave Brubeck
David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite.
See 1920 and Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures.
See 1920 and Decree
Deep South
The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States.
DeForest Kelley
Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer.
Democratic Republic of Georgia
The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; tr) was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to February 1921.
See 1920 and Democratic Republic of Georgia
Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
See 1920 and Detroit
Dick Francis
Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England.
Douglass North
Douglass Cecil North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015) was an American economist known for his work in economic history.
Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
See 1920 and Dublin
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction.
Duchy of Schleswig
The Duchy of Schleswig (Hertugdømmet Slesvig; Herzogtum Schleswig; Hartogdom Sleswig; Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland) covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km (45 mi) south of the current border between Germany and Denmark.
See 1920 and Duchy of Schleswig
Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County.
See 1920 and Duluth, Minnesota
Eddie Slovik
Edward Donald Slovik (February 18, 1920January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton (18 January 18497 January 1920) was an Australian statesman, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903.
Edward Gawler Prior
Edward Gawler Prior, (21 May 1853 – 12 December 1920) was a mining engineer and politician in British Columbia.
See 1920 and Edward Gawler Prior
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
See 1920 and Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Emeryville, California
Emeryville is a city located in northwest Alameda County, California, in the United States.
See 1920 and Emeryville, California
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
See 1920 and Encyclopædia Britannica
Espoo
Espoo (Esbo) is a city in Finland.
See 1920 and Espoo
Essad Toptani
Essad Toptani (1863/4 or 1875 – 13 June 1920) was an Albanian politician who served as the third prime minister of Albania from 1914 to 1916.
Esther Rolle
Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was an American actress.
Estonian War of Independence
The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the 1919 aggression of the pro–German Baltische Landeswehr.
See 1920 and Estonian War of Independence
Eugénie de Montijo
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870.
See 1920 and Eugénie de Montijo
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
Ewa Paradies
Ewa Paradies (17 December 1920 – 4 July 1946) was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.
Extradition
In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement.
Fabian Ver
Fabian Crisologo Ver (born Fabian Maria Trinidad Juan Cirilo Crisologo Ver; January 20, 1920 – November 21, 1998) was a Filipino military officer who served as the Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines under President Ferdinand Marcos.
Fabio Taglioni
Fabio Taglioni (10 September 1920 – 18 July 2001) was an Italian engineer.
Fado
Fado ("destiny, fate") is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal but probably has much earlier origins.
See 1920 and Fado
Faisal I of Iraq
Faisal I bin al-Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (فيصل الأول بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ʻAlī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 until his death in 1933.
Far Eastern Republic
The Far Eastern Republic (p; label), sometimes called the Chita Republic (label), was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East.
See 1920 and Far Eastern Republic
Farouk of Egypt
Farouk I (فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a military coup in 1952.
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
February 29
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (20 January 1920 – 31 October 1993) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Field Eugene Kindley
Captain Field Eugene Kindley (13 March 1896 – 2 February 1920) was an American aviator and World War I flying ace credited with twelve confirmed aerial victories.
See 1920 and Field Eugene Kindley
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
See 1920 and Finland
First Nations in Canada
First Nations (Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.
See 1920 and First Nations in Canada
Flying Squad
The Flying Squad is a branch of the Serious and Organised Crime Command within London's Metropolitan Police Service.
François Jacob
François Jacob (17 June 1920 – 19 April 2013) was a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through regulation of transcription.
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
Frank Brown (governor)
Frank Brown (August 8, 1846 – February 3, 1920), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 42nd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1892 to 1896.
See 1920 and Frank Brown (governor)
Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel ''Dune'' and its five sequels.
Frank Muir
Frank Herbert Muir (5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur.
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film, television, and stage director.
See 1920 and Franklin J. Schaffner
Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon.
See 1920 and Frederick Banting
Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig; Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas.
See 1920 and Free City of Danzig
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
See 1920 and French Third Republic
Fritz Walter
Friedrich "Fritz" Walter (31 October 1920 – 17 June 2002) was a German footballer who spent his entire senior career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924.
See 1920 and Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and rounders.
See 1920 and Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic football
Gaelic football (Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or football, is an Irish team sport.
Ganja, Azerbaijan
Ganja (Gəncə) is Azerbaijan's third largest city, with a population of around 335,600.
See 1920 and Ganja, Azerbaijan
Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
See 1920 and Gansu
Gene Tierney
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress.
Geneva
Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.
See 1920 and Geneva
George Gipp
George Gipp (February 18, 1895 – December 14, 1920), nicknamed "the Gipper", was a college football player at the University of Notre Dame under head coach Knute Rockne.
George Herbig
George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 – October 12, 2013) was an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.
George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
German Workers' Party
The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was a short-lived far-right political party established in Weimar Germany after World War I. It only lasted from 5 January 1919 until 24 February 1920.
See 1920 and German Workers' Party
Gordon Gould
Richard Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.
Gori, Georgia
Gori (გორი) is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and is located at the confluence of two rivers, the Mtkvari and the Liakhvi.
Government of Ireland Act 1920
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
See 1920 and Government of Ireland Act 1920
Governor of Maryland
The governor of the State of Maryland is the head of government of Maryland, and is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units.
See 1920 and Governor of Maryland
Governor-General of South Africa
The governor-general of the Union of South Africa (Goewerneur-generaal van Unie van Suid-Afrika; Goeverneur-generaal van de Unie van Zuid-Afrika) was the highest state official in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 May 1961.
See 1920 and Governor-General of South Africa
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (– 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Марія Александровна; – 24 October 1920) was the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament (Meclis or Parlamento), is the unicameral Turkish legislature.
See 1920 and Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region of Northern America is a binational Canadian–American region centered around the Great Lakes that includes the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario.
See 1920 and Great Lakes region
Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing is an organized, competitive sport in which greyhounds are raced around a track.
Guerrero
Guerrero, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guerrero (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero), is one of the 32 states that comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
Guido Cantelli
Guido Cantelli (27 April 192024 November 1956) was an Italian orchestral conductor.
Haribo
Haribo GmbH & Co.
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Helen O'Connell
Helen O'Connell (May 23, 1920 – September 9, 1993) was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s".
Helen Thomas
Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps.
Helmut Zacharias
Helmut Zacharias (27 January 192028 February 2002) was a German violinist and composer who created over 400 works and sold 14 million records.
Helsingin Sanomat
, abbreviated HS and colloquially known as Hesari, is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma.
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Henry Daglish
Henry Daglish (18 November 1866 – 16 August 1920) 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.
Hermann von Struve
Karl Hermann von Struve (– 12 August 1920) was a Baltic German astronomer.
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Hjalmar Branting
Karl Hjalmar Branting (23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) from 1907 until his death in 1925, and three times Prime Minister of Sweden.
Home rule
Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet.
Howard University
Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., located in the Shaw neighborhood.
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Hydrocodone
Hydrocodone, also known as dihydrocodeinone, is a semisynthetic opioid used to treat pain and as a cough suppressant.
Insulin
Insulin (from Latin insula, 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the insulin (INS) gene.
See 1920 and Insulin
Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC).
See 1920 and Irish War of Independence
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.
Ivo Caprino
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.
Jack Lord
John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American television, film and Broadway actor, director and producer.
Jack Warden
Jack Warden (born John Warden Lebzelter Jr.; September 18, 1920July 19, 2006) was an American character actor of film and television.
James Doohan
James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian actor and author, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek.
James Dunsmuir
James Dunsmuir (July 8, 1851 – June 6, 1920) was a Canadian industrialist and politician in British Columbia.
James M. Cox
James Middleton Cox (born James Monroe Cox; March 31, 1870 July 15, 1957) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 46th and 48th governor of Ohio, and a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.
James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture)
James "Tama Jim" Wilson (August 16, 1835 – August 26, 1920) was an American politician who served as United States secretary of agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913.
See 1920 and James Wilson (Secretary of Agriculture)
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar de la Guerra (19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991.
See 1920 and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Jay Ward
Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. (September 20, 1920 – October 12, 1989), also known as Jay Ward, was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows.
Józef Haller
Józef Haller von Hallenburg (13 August 1873 – 4 June 1960) was a Polish lieutenant general and legionary in the Polish Legions during the First World War.
Jean-Marie Auberson
Jean-Marie Auberson (May 2, 1920 – July 4, 2004) was a Swiss conductor and violinist.
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Jens Bjørneboe
Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 October 1920 – 9 May 1976) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jimmy Witherspoon
James Witherspoon (August 8, 1920 – September 18, 1997) was an American jump blues singer.
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John Brashear
John Alfred Brashear (November 24, 1840 – April 8, 1920) was an American astronomer and instrument builder.
John Cruickshank
John Alexander Cruickshank, (born 20 May 1920) is a Scottish former banker, former Royal Air Force officer, and a Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet.
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John Grigg (astronomer)
John Grigg (4 June 1838 – 20 June 1920) was a New Zealand astronomer.
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John Harsanyi
John Charles Harsanyi (Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley.
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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John O'Connor (cardinal)
John Joseph O'Connor (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was made a cardinal in 1985. O'Connor previously served as a U.S. Navy chaplain (1952 to 1979), including four years as chief of chaplains, as an auxiliary bishop of the Military Vicariate of the United States (1979 to 1983), and as Bishop of Scranton from 1983 to 1984.
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John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010.
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John Reed (journalist)
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist.
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Johnny Speight
Johnny Speight (2 June 1920 – 5 July 1998) was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.
José López Portillo
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
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Joseph Burton Sumner
Joseph Burton Sumner (October 11, 1837 – February 15, 1920) was a figure in the founding of Sumner, Mississippi.
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Joseph Trumpeldor
Joseph Vladimirovich (Volfovich) Trumpeldor (ɪˈosʲɪf trʊmpʲɪlʲˈdor; יוֹסֵף טְרוּמְפֶּלְדוֹר,; 21 November 1880 – 1 March 1920) was an early Zionist activist who helped to organize the Zion Mule Corps and bring Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch (Catalan: Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló,; 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010) was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001.
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July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
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Jury
A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.
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K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (27 October 1920 – 9 November 2005) was an Indian statesman, diplomat, academic, and politician who served as the ninth vice president of India from 1992 to 1997 and tenth president of India from 1997 to 2002.
Kamisese Mara
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, (6 May 1920 – 18 April 2004) was a Fijian politician who served as Chief Minister from 1967 to 1970, when Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom, and, apart from one brief interruption in 1987, as the first Prime Minister from 1970 to 1992.
Kangaroo court
Kangaroo court is an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc.
Kapp Putsch
The Kapp Putsch, also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch, was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920.
Kauniainen
Kauniainen (Grankulla) is a town in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country.
Kaysone Phomvihane
Kaysone Phomvihane (ໄກສອນ ພົມວິຫານ, pronounced ˈ kɑɪsɒn ˈˈpɒmvɪhɑːn; 13 December 1920 – 21 November 1992) was the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992.
See 1920 and Kaysone Phomvihane
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941.
See 1920 and Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Klaipėda Region
The Klaipėda Region (Klaipėdos kraštas) or Memel Territory (Memelland or Memelgebiet) was defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the northernmost part of the German province of East Prussia, when, as Memelland, it was put under the administration of the Entente's Council of Ambassadors.
KLM
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, or simply KLM (an abbreviation for their official name Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.), is the flag carrier of the Netherlands.
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Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is the largest city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
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Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
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Lawrence Klein
Lawrence Robert Klein (September 14, 1920 – October 20, 2013) was an American economist.
Léon Bourgeois
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (21 May 185129 September 1925) was a French statesman.
League of Nations
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate represented a legal status under international law for specific territories following World War I, involving the transfer of control from one nation to another.
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League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization.
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Leo McKern
Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.
Levi P. Morton
Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
Liam Cosgrave
Liam Cosgrave (13 April 1920 – 4 October 2017) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs from 1954 to 1957, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and Government Chief Whip from 1948 to 1951.
List of governors of American Samoa
This is a list of governors, etc.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lotta Svärd
Lotta Svärd was a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organisation for women.
LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.
See 1920 and LSD
Ludwig von Struve
Gustav Wilhelm Ludwig von Struve (November 1, 1858 – November 4, 1920) was a Baltic German astronomer, part of the famous Baltic German Struve family.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Mahendra of Nepal
Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (महेन्द्र वीर विक्रम शाह देव), (11 June 1920 – 31 January 1972) was the ninth King of Nepal from 13 March 1955 until his death in 1972, which was due to a heart attack, as told in an interview by his personal physician Dr.
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2 June 1920 – 18 September 2013) was a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the informal literary association Gruppe 47.
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Maria Sanford
Maria Louise Sanford (December 19, 1836 – April 21, 1920) was an American educator.
Marinduque
Marinduque, officially the Province of Marinduque, is an island province in the Philippines located in Southwestern Tagalog Region or Mimaropa, formerly designated as Region IV-B. Its capital is the municipality of Boac.
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti Farrugia (14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45.
Mario Puzo
Mario Francis Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an American author and screenwriter.
Martial law
Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
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Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara (17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s.
Max Bruch
Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.
Max Klinger
Max Klinger (18 February 1857 – 5 July 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting.
Max Weber
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.
Mehmed VI
Mehmed VI Vahideddin (محمد سادس Meḥmed-i sâdis or وحيد الدين Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn; VI. or Vahdeddin/Vahideddin; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November 1922, when the Ottoman sultanate was abolished and replaced by the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.
Meiji Shrine
is a Shinto shrine in Shibuya, Tokyo, that is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.
Melina Mercouri
Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician.
Metropolitan Police
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.
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Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920.
See 1920 and Mexican Revolution
Michael Collins (Irish leader)
Michael Collins (Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence.
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Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.
Miklós Horthy
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (Vitéz"Vitéz" refers to a Hungarian knightly order founded by Miklós Horthy ("Vitézi Rend"); literally, "vitéz" means "knight" or "valiant".;; English: Nicholas Horthy; Nikolaus Horthy von Nagybánya; 18 June 1868 – 9 February 1957) was a Hungarian admiral and statesman who was the regent of the Kingdom of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II, from 1 March 1920 to 15 October 1944.
Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
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Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.
Moritz Cantor
Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics.
Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
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Mutiny
Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders.
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.
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National Socialist Program
The National Socialist Program, also known as the 25-point Program or the 25-point Plan, was the party program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, and referred to in English as the Nazi Party).
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Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Ndabaningi Sithole
Ndabaningi Sithole (21 July 1920 – 12 December 2000) was the founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a militant, nationalist organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia, in July 1963.
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Nellie Melba
Dame Nellie Melba (born Helen Porter Mitchell; 19 May 186123 February 1931) was an Australian operatic lyric coloratura soprano.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Neville Brand
Lawrence Neville Brand (August 13, 1920 – April 16, 1992) was an American soldier and actor.
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy.
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Nils Edén
Nils Edén (25 August 1871 – 16 June 1945) was a Swedish historian and liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1917 to 1920, and along with Hjalmar Branting acknowledged as co-architect of Sweden's transition from a constitutional monarchy to a fully parliamentary democracy with equal male and female suffrage.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) 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 of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
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Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922)
The non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on September 4, 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
See 1920 and Non-governmental organization
Norman Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (17 May 1836 – 16 August 1920) was an English scientist and astronomer.
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Oceanside, California
Oceanside is a city on the South Coast of California, located in San Diego County.
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October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Olive Thomas
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.
Olympic symbols
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses icons, flags, and symbols to elevate the Olympic Games.
Ormer Locklear
Ormer Leslie "Lock" Locklear (October 28, 1891 – August 2, 1920) was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor.
Ottoman dynasty
The Ottoman dynasty (Osmanlı Hanedanı) consisted of the members of the imperial House of Osman (Ḫānedān-ı Āl-i ʿOsmān), also known as the Ottomans (Osmanlılar).
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef (עובדיה יוסף|Ovadya Yosef,; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer.
Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.
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Pamela Harriman
Pamela Beryl Harriman (née Digby; March 20, 1920 – February 5, 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite.
Pancho Villa
Francisco "Pancho" Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and general in the Mexican Revolution.
Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dada /Dadaji ("elder brother"), was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya family) in 1954.
See 1920 and Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)
The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Patent attorney
A patent attorney is an attorney who has the specialized qualifications necessary for representing clients in obtaining patents and acting in all matters and procedures relating to patent law and practice, such as filing patent applications and oppositions to granted patents.
Patrick Troughton
Patrick George Troughton (25 March 1920 – 28 March 1987) was an English actor best known for his roles in television and film.
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Paul Adam (French novelist)
Paul Auguste Marie Adam (7 December 1862 – 1 January 1920) was a French novelist who became an early proponent of Symbolism in France, and one of the founders of the Symbolist review Le Symboliste.
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Paul Frees
Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and vaudevillian.
Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann
Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (22 June 1837 – 31 March 1920) was a German mathematician.
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Paul Ignatius
Paul Robert Ignatius (born November 11, 1920) is an American government official who served as Secretary of the Navy between 1967 and 1969 and was the Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Lyndon Johnson Administration.
Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Percy French
William Percy French (1 May 1854 – 24 January 1920) was an Irish songwriter, author, poet, entertainer and painter.
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Fabergé or Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (Peter Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe; – 24 September 1920) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller.
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Peter O'Donnell
Peter O'Donnell (11 April 1920 – 3 May 2010) was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Polish–Soviet War
The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.
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Pope Benedict XV
Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (21 November 185422 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Premier of Quebec
The premier of Quebec (premier ministre du Québec (masculine) or première ministre du Québec (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Premier of Western Australia
The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia.
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President of Brazil
The president of Brazil (presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is the head of state and head of government of Brazil.
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President of Fiji
The president of Fiji is the head of state of the Republic of Fiji.
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President of Germany
The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland),The official title within Germany is Bundespräsident, with der Bundesrepublik Deutschland being added in international correspondence; the official English title is President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the head of state of Germany.
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President of India
The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.
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President of Uganda
The president of the Republic of Uganda is the head of state and the head of government of Uganda.
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President of Vietnam
The president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (lit) or simplier the state president is the head of state of Vietnam, elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam from its delegates.
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Prime Minister of Albania
The prime minister of Albania (Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially the prime minister of the Republic of Albania (Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of Albania.
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Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.
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Prime Minister of Croatia
The prime minister of Croatia, officially the president of the government of the Republic of Croatia (Predsjednik / Predsjednica Vlade Republike Hrvatske), is Croatia's head of government, and is de facto the most powerful and influential state officeholder in the Croatian system of government.
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Prime Minister of Fiji
The prime minister of Fiji is the head of government of the Republic of Fiji.
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Prime Minister of Italy
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
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Prime Minister of Myanmar
The prime minister of Myanmar is the head of government of Myanmar.
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Prime Minister of Sweden
The prime minister of Sweden (statsminister literally translates as "minister of state") is the head of government of the Kingdom of Sweden.
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The prime minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands.
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Prince Arthur of Connaught
Prince Arthur of Connaught (Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert; 13 January 1883 – 12 September 1938) was a British military officer and a grandson of Queen Victoria.
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Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy
Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi; 28 December 1920 – 18 March 2011) was a member of the princely family of Monaco.
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Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret of Connaught (Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah; 15 January 1882 – 1 May 1920) was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Private (rank)
A private is a soldier, usually with the lowest rank in many armies.
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
| The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older.
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Putra of Perlis
Tuanku Sir Syed Harun Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail (Jawi: توانكو سر سيد هارون ڤوترا ابن المرحومسيد حسن جمل الليل; 25 November 1920 – 16 April 2000) was the Raja of Perlis from 1945 until his death in 2000, and the third Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), from 1960 to 1965.
Qantas
Qantas Airways Limited, or simply Qantas, is the flag carrier of Australia, and is the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations in Australia and Oceania.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).
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Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
Ray Chapman
Raymond Johnson Chapman (January 15, 1891 – August 17, 1920) was an American baseball player.
Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who created a form of stop motion model animation known as "Dynamation".
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
Referendum
A referendum (referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
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Ricardo Montalbán
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican and American film and television actor.
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Richard Bong
Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.
Richard E. Bellman
Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984) was an American applied mathematician, who introduced dynamic programming in 1953, and made important contributions in other fields of mathematics, such as biomathematics.
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Richard Farnsworth
Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman.
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Richard von Weizsäcker
Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician (CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994.
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Rijeka
Rijeka (local Chakavian: Reka or Rika; Reka, Fiume (Fiume; Fiume; outdated German name: Sankt Veit am Flaum), is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 108,622 inhabitants.
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Robert Beaven
Robert Beaven (January 20, 1836 – September 18, 1920), son of James Beaven, was a British Columbia politician and businessman.
Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
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Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See.
Roberto Marcelo Levingston
Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (10 January 1920 – 17 June 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was the 42nd President of Argentina from 1970 to 1971.
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Roger Angell
Roger Angell (September 19, 1920 – May 20, 2022) was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball.
Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Royal assent
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf.
Royal Irish Constabulary
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann; simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the police force in Ireland from 1822 until 1922, when all of the island was part of the United Kingdom.
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Ruhr
The Ruhr (Ruhrgebiet, also Ruhrpott), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Ruhr Red Army
The Ruhr Red Army (13 March – 12 April 1920) was an army of between 50,000 and 80,000 left-wing workers who conducted what was known as the Ruhr Uprising (Ruhraufstand), in the Weimar Republic.
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Samuel Griffith
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919.
San Remo conference
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 Sanremo, Italy, from 19 to 26 April 1920.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Secretary-General of the United Nations
The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.
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Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church (Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist.
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Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Simon-Napoléon Parent
Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC (September 12, 1855 – September 7, 1920) 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.
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South African Air Force
The South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria.
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South West Africa
South West Africa, renamed to Namibia from 12 June 1968, was a South African Province under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.
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Southern Ireland (1921–1922)
Southern Ireland (Deisceart Éireann) was the larger of the two parts of Ireland that were created when Ireland was partitioned by the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
See 1920 and Southern Ireland (1921–1922)
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 December 188726 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician.
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St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
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Stan Musial
Stanley Frank Musial (born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial; November 21, 1920 – January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman.
Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon (born Moon Yong-Myeong; 6 January 1920 – 3 September 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for conservative political causes.
Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Tambov Rebellion
The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1922 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War.
Tampere
Tampere (Tammerfors) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa.
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Taoiseach
The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland.
Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn.
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Ternopil
Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret.
Tex Schramm
Texas Earnest Schramm Jr. (June 2, 1920 – July 15, 2003) was an American football executive who was the original president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys franchise of the National Football League (NFL).
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz (Szász Tamás István; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist.
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs.
Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
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Tom of Finland
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture.
Tomáš Masaryk
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 185014 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, progressive political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935.
Tony Randall
Anthony Leonard Randall (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor.
Toshiro Mifune
was a Japanese actor and producer.
Treaty of Rapallo (1920)
The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the aftermath of the First World War.
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Treaty of Sèvres
The Treaty of Sèvres (Traité de Sèvres) was a 1920 treaty signed between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire.
Treaty of Trianon
The Treaty of Trianon (Traité de Trianon; Trianoni békeszerződés; Trattato del Trianon; Tratatul de la Trianon) often referred to as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon in Hungary, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed on the one side by Hungary and, on the other, by the Entente and Associated Powers in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United States Bureau of Reclamation
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.
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United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.
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United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Upper Silesia
Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk; Gůrny Ślůnsk, Gōrny Ślōnsk; Horní Slezsko;; Silesian German: Oberschläsing; Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia, located today mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic.
Väinö Linna
Väinö Linna (20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author and a former soldier who fought in the Continuation War (1941–44).
Venustiano Carranza
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza (29 December 1859 – 21 May 1920) was a Mexican land owner and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920, during the Mexican Revolution.
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Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
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Vilnius
Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.
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Wall Street bombing
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920.
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Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters.
Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst (25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics.
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician who served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.
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Wayne Thiebaud
Morton Wayne Thiebaud (November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings.
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation (later CBS Corporation) was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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White Guard (Finland)
The White Guard, officially known as the Civil Guard, was a voluntary militia, part of the Finnish Whites movement, that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guards in the Finnish Civil War of 1918.
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White House press corps
The White House press corps is the group of journalists, correspondents, and members of the media usually assigned to the White House in Washington, D.C., to cover the president of the United States, White House events, and news briefings.
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White movement
The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).
Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, one of the fathers of modern psychology.
William A. Stone
William Alexis Stone (April 18, 1846March 1, 1920) was an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1899 to 1903.
William Chester Minor
William Chester Minor (also known as W. C. Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.
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William Conrad
William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".
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William H. Riker
William Harrison Riker (September 22, 1920 – June 26, 1993) was an American political scientist who is prominent for applying game theory and mathematics to political science.
William Kissam Vanderbilt
William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder.
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William Sherman Jennings
William Sherman Jennings (March 24, 1863February 27, 1920) was the 18th Governor of Florida after being a lawyer, county judge, and state representative.
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William Wilfred Sullivan
Sir William Wilfred Sullivan (December 6, 1839 – September 30, 1920) was a Prince Edward Island journalist, politician and jurist, the fourth premier of Prince Edward Island.
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Winthrop M. Crane
Winthrop Murray Crane (commonly referred to as W. Murray Crane or simply Murray Crane; April 23, 1853October 2, 1920) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served as the 40th governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903 and represented that state in the United States Senate from 1904 to 1913.
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Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yegor Ligachyov
Yegor Kuzmich Ligachyov (also transliterated as Ligachev; Егор Кузьмич Лигачёв; 29 November 1920 – 7 May 2021) was a Soviet and Russian politician who was a high-ranking official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and who continued an active political career in post-Soviet Russia.
Yul Brynner
Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian-born actor.
Yusef Lateef
Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
Zecharia Sitchin
Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts.
Zygmunt Janiszewski
Zygmunt Janiszewski (12 July 1888 – 3 January 1920) was a Polish mathematician.
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1844
In the Philippines, this was the only leap year with 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after. 1920 and 1844 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1848
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century. 1920 and 1848 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
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1867
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska.
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1872
In Japan, this leap year runs with only 354 days as the country dropped 12 days in the month of December. 1920 and 1872 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. 1920 and 1892 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 1892
1918
The ceasefire that effectively ended the First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year.
See 1920 and 1918
1920 Carinthian plebiscite
The Carinthian plebiscite (Kärntner Volksabstimmung, Koroški plebiscit) was held on 10 October 1920 in the area in southern Carinthia predominantly settled by Carinthian Slovenes.
See 1920 and 1920 Carinthian plebiscite
1920 Nebi Musa riots
The 1920 Nebi Musa riots or 1920 Jerusalem riots took place in British-controlled part of Occupied Enemy Territory Administration between Sunday, 4 April, and Wednesday, 7 April 1920 in and around the Old City of Jerusalem.
See 1920 and 1920 Nebi Musa riots
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; Spiele der VII.) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (Anvers 1920; Dutch and German: Antwerpen 1920), were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
See 1920 and 1920 Summer Olympics
1920 United States presidential election
The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920.
See 1920 and 1920 United States presidential election
1942
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.
See 1920 and 1942
1944
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. 1920 and 1944 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 1944
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
See 1920 and 1945
1957
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
See 1920 and 1957
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
See 1920 and 1962
1969
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
See 1920 and 1969
1971
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
See 1920 and 1971
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. 1920 and 1972 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 1972
1975
It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
See 1920 and 1975
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
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1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
See 1920 and 1986
1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. 1920 and 1988 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 1988
1989
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
See 1920 and 1989
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.
See 1920 and 1990
1991
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947.
See 1920 and 1991
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. 1920 and 1992 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1993
1993 was designated as.
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1995
1995 was designated as.
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1996
1996 was designated as. 1920 and 1996 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
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1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
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2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year. 1920 and 2000 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
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2002
After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
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2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
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2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). 1920 and 2004 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.
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2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
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2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
See 1920 and 2007
2008
2008 was designated as. 1920 and 2008 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.
See 1920 and 2009
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
See 1920 and 2010
2011
The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the second Libyan civil war.
See 1920 and 2011
2012
2012 was designated as. 1920 and 2012 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four different digits (a span of 26 years).
See 1920 and 2013
2014
2014 was designated as.
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2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as.
See 1920 and 2015
2016
2016 was designated as. 1920 and 2016 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 2016
2017
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
See 1920 and 2017
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
See 1920 and 2019
2020
The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns, and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. 1920 and 2020 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 2020
2021
Similar to the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple COVID-19 variants.
See 1920 and 2021
2022
The year saw the removal of nearly all COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of international borders in most countries, while the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continued.
See 1920 and 2022
2023
The year 2023 saw the decline in severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the WHO (World Health Organization) ending its global health emergency status in May.
See 1920 and 2023
2024
So far, this year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war, and the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel. 1920 and 2024 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1920 and 2024
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