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June 15 – 1920 Duluth lynchings: Three African Americans are sprung from jail and lynched by a white mob in Duluth, Minnesota. June 21 – The 4.9 M L Inglewood earthquake shakes the Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ), causing more than $100,000 in damage.
1920 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the ...
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
5–30 April – 1920 blind march, a protest march of 250 blind men from across Britain to London. 10 April – West Bromwich Albion win the Football League title for the first time. [4] 20 April–12 September – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and win 15 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze medals.
1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism; 1918 – President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and postwar peace in Europe; 1918 – Republicans win back Congress in the Midterm elections. 1918 – Armistice agreement ends World ...
December 1920 events in the United States (4 P) This page was last edited on 27 January 2025, at 01:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events. February 2 – Beyond the Horizon, ...
1920 events in the United States by month (9 C) This page was last edited on 15 June 2021, at 00:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...