In history, year 1920 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1920.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 02 january | Under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Department of Justice agents launched a series of raids against radical leftists and anarchists across 30 cities in 23 states. |
| 08 january | The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. |
| 16 january | The League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, held its first council meeting in Paris. |
| 02 february | The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War ofIndependence, with Russia agreeing to recognize the independence of Estonia and renounce in perpetuity all rights to that territory. |
| 09 february | The Svalbard Treaty was signed, recognizing Norwegian sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, but all signatories were also given equal rights to engage in commercial activities on the islands. |
| 24 february | At a meeting of the German Workers' Party, Adolf Hitleroutlined the party's 25-point programme and the party changed its nameto the Nazi Party. |
| 13 march | The Kapp Putsch briefly ousted the Weimar Republic governmentfrom Berlin. |
| 22 march | A pogrom in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azeris destroyed the Armenian-populated portions of the town. |
| 28 march | An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Mid Western and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead. |
| 02 may | National Negro baseball League, a baseball tournament, was played for the first time on May 2, 1920 in Indianapolis. |
| 03 may | Relying on the 11th Soviet Red Army operating in neighboring Azerbaijan, Bolsheviks attempted to stage a coup d'etat in Georgia. |
| 07 may | Treaty of Moscow was signed on May 7, 1920 between Soviet Russia and the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Moscow to grant Georgia de jure recognition of independence in exchange of the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil. |
| 07 may | Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops, with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later. |
| 04 june | The Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its territory and 64% of itspopulation with the signing of the Treaty of Trianon in Paris. |
| 15 june | Three African American circus workers were lynched by a mob inDuluth, Minnesota, a crime that shocked the country for having takenplace in the Northern United States. |
| 12 july | The Soviet- Lithuania treaty was signed between Soviet Union and Lithuania. The Lithuania was recognized as a sovereign country by Soviet Union. This treaty allowed the Lithuania to move its armed forces through the region during war against Poland. |
| 18 august | The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in America. |
| 20 august | The first commercial radio station starts its operations in Detroit, Michigan, with call sign 8MK. The radio station was launched by The Detroit News newspaper and is now taken care of by CBS. |
| 25 august | Polish forces under Józef Pilsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisivebattle of the Polish–Soviet War. |
| 16 september | A bomb rocked Wall Street killing 38 people and wounded over 400. The mystery was never solved but it was widely believe to be the work of radical anarchists. |
| 16 september | A bomb in a horse wagon exploded in frontof the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people andinjuring 400 others. |
| 25 october | Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney died after 74days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle forindependence to international attention. |
| 04 november | Airmail service has started between the U.S. and Canada. The first route that would be taken by the pilot has been from Seattle to Victoria. |
| 05 november | Two Oklahoma law enforcement officers provided assistance in exposing the details concerning a liquor raid. This led to the possession of one gallon of corn juice, one quart of gasoline, and one live prisoner. |
| 16 november | Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queenslandand Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. |
| 17 november | The U.S has been accused by the Turkish newspapers of spreading “propaganda” against the country. Moreover, American relief workers and preachers were blamed of attempting to start a war between the U.S. and Turkey. |
| 21 november | Irish War of Independence-On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army killed more than a dozen members of the 'CairoGang', and the Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire during a Gaelicfootball match in Croke Park. |
| 28 november | Thirty-six local Irish Republican Army volunteers killedseventeen members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal IrishConstabulary, marking a turning point in the Irish War of Independence. |
| 11 december | Irish War of Independence-Following an Irish Republican Army Ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in Cork, British forces burned and looted numerous buildings in the city. |
| 22 december | The 8th Congress of Soviets approved the GOELRO plan, the first Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 June | Marcel Reich-Ranicki / Author / Germany |
| 06 August | John Graves / Author / United States of America |
| 08 May | Tom of Finland / Illustrator / Finland |
| 09 September | Feng Kang / Mathematician / China |
| 10 February | Alex Comfort / Author / United Kingdom |
| 11 April | William Royer / Politician / United States of America |
| 13 April | Claude Cheysson / Politician / France |
| 13 June | Iosif Vorovich / Engineer / Russia |
| 16 January | Alberto Crespo / Racing Car Driver / Argentina |
| 16 July | Anatole Broyard / Critic / United States of America |
| 17 March | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman / Politician / Bangladesh |
| 19 December | Little Jimmy Dickens / Writer / United States of America |
| 20 June | Danny Cedrone / Guitarist / United States of America |
| 21 April | Edmund Adamkiewicz / Footballer / Germany |
| 23 March | Neal Edward Smith / Politician / United States of America |
| 25 November | Ricardo Montalbán / Actor / United States of America |
| 27 April | Mark Krasnosel'skii / Academic / Ukraine |
| 27 March | Colin Rowe / Academic / United States of America |
| 29 April | Harold Shapero / Composer / United States of America |
| 30 June | Eleanor Ross Taylor / Poet / United States of America |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 16 June | Hemant Kumar / Singer / India |
| 03 May | Achala Sachdev / Actress / India |
| 14 June | Bharat Bhushan / Actor / India |
| 19 October | Pandurang Shastri Athavale / Philosopher / India |
| 19 October | Pandurang Shastri Athavale / Activist / India |
| 27 October | K. R. Narayanan / Politician / India |
| 09 December | Kedar Pandey / Politician / India |
| 16 February | I.S. Jauhar / Actor / India |
| 12 January | Pran Krishan Sikand / Actor / India |
| 05 April | Rafiq Zakaria / Scholar / India |
| 20 October | Siddhartha Shankar Ray / Politician / India |
| 16 January | Nanabhoy Palkhivala / Economist / India |
| 22 February | Iftekhar / Actor / India |
| 20 October | Siddhartha Shankar Ray / Politician / India |
| 20 July | Ghulam Mohammad Shah / Politician / India |
| 25 July | Govind Narayan Singh / Politician / India |
| 25 October | Rishang Keishing / Politician / India |
| 16 August | Kotla Vijay Bhaskar Reddy / Politician / India |
| 14 July | Shankarrao Chavan / Politician / India |
| 25 September | Satish Dhawan / Engineer / India |