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  • Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    Jan, 1920
    Josip Broz Tito

    The Communist Party of Yugoslavia

    Zagreb, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    Jan, 1920

    Upon his return home, Broz was unable to gain employment as a metalworker in Kumrovec, so he and his wife moved briefly to Zagreb, where he worked as a waiter and took part in a waiter's strike. He also joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY).




  • Tokyo, Japan
    1920
    Hirohito

    The Rank of Major in the Army

    Tokyo, Japan
    1920

    In 1920 Hirohito was promoted to the rank of Major in the army and Lieutenant Commander in the navy.




  • U.S.
    1920
    Lucky Luciano

    Met the Future leaders

    U.S.
    1920

    By 1920, Luciano had met many future Mafia leaders, including Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, his longtime friend and future business partner through the Five Points Gang. That same year, Lower Manhattan gang boss Joe Masseria recruited Luciano as one of his gunmen. Around that same time, Luciano and his close associates started working for gambler Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, who immediately saw the potential windfall from Prohibition and educated Luciano on running bootleg alcohol as a business.




  • Missouri, U.S.
    1920
    Harry S. Truman

    A Major

    Missouri, U.S.
    1920

    In 1920 he was appointed a major in the Officers' Reserve Corps (ORC), a federal organization not connected to the Missouri National Guard.




  • Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    Jan, 1920
    Walt Disney

    Disney and Iwerks Were Laid off

    Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
    Jan, 1920

    In January 1920, as Pesmen-Rubin's revenue declined after Christmas, Disney and Iwerks were laid off. They started their own business, the short-lived Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. Failing to attract many customers, Disney and Iwerks agreed that Disney should leave temporarily to earn money at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, run by A. V. Cauger; the following month Iwerks, who was not able to run their business alone, also joined.




  • Paris, France
    1920
    Marie Curie

    The 25th anniversary of The Discovery of Radium

    Paris, France
    1920

    In 1920, for the 25th anniversary of the discovery of radium, the French government established a stipend for her.




  • Munich, Germany
    1920
    Heinrich Himmler

    Meeting Ernst Röhm

    Munich, Germany
    1920

    During Himmler's second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career. Although he was not successful, he was able to extend his involvement in the paramilitary scene in Munich. It was at this time that he first met Ernst Röhm, an early member of the Nazi Party and co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA). Himmler admired Röhm because he was a decorated combat soldier, and at his suggestion, Himmler joined his antisemitic nationalist group, the Bund Reichskriegsflagge (Imperial War Flag Society).


  • Ireland
    1920
    Irish War of Independence

    The Irish Republic was a reality in the lives of many people

    Ireland
    1920

    By mid-1920, the Irish Republic was a reality in the lives of many people, enforcing its own law, maintaining its own armed forces and collecting its own taxes.


  • Ireland
    1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Republicans won control of most county councils

    Ireland
    1920

    In mid-1920, Republicans won control of most county councils, and British authority collapsed in most of the south and west, forcing the British government to introduce emergency powers.


  • Ireland
    1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Government of Ireland Act 1920

    Ireland
    1920

    The treaty allowed Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920.


  • Ireland
    1920
    Irish War of Independence

    The IRP had a presence in 21 of Ireland's 32 counties

    Ireland
    1920

    By 1920, the IRP had a presence in 21 of Ireland's 32 counties.


  • U.S.
    1920
    Juan Trippe

    The First Meeting of The National Intercollegiate Flying Association

    U.S.
    1920

    Trippe was treasurer at the first meeting of the National Intercollegiate Flying Association in 1920.


  • Hungary
    1920
    Hungarian–Romanian War

    The Romanian Troops departed Hungary

    Hungary
    1920

    In early 1920, Romanian troops departed Hungary. They took with them resources including foodstuffs, mineral ores and transportation and factory equipment and also discovered historic bells of Romanian churches in Budapest taken by the Hungarians from Austro-Hungarian Army, which had not been melted then.


  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1920
    Mexican Revolution

    The Interim Government Negotiated Pancho Villa's Surrender

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1920

    The interim government of Adolfo de la Huerta negotiated Pancho Villa's surrender in 1920, rewarding him with a hacienda where he lived in peace.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Saturday Jan 10, 1920
    World War II

    League of Nations

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Saturday Jan 10, 1920

    The League of Nations was the first worldwide international organization whose principle mission to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I, and the headquarters was in Geneva, Switzerland.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Saturday Jan 10, 1920
    United Nations

    League of Nations

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Saturday Jan 10, 1920

    On 10 January 1920, the League of Nations formally came into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, took effect.


  • Geneva, Switzerland
    Friday Jan 16, 1920
    League of Nations

    First meeting of "League of Nations"

    Geneva, Switzerland
    Friday Jan 16, 1920

    The League of Nations held its first meeting on January 16, 1920, that is, six days after the entry into force of the Treaty of Versailles and the official end of World War I.


  • U.S.
    Saturday Jan 17, 1920
    Lucky Luciano

    Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect

    U.S.
    Saturday Jan 17, 1920

    On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect and Prohibition lasted until the amendment was repealed in 1933. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Demand for alcohol naturally continued, the resulting black market for alcoholic beverages providing criminals with an additional source of income.


  • U.S.
    Jan, 1920
    Marcus Garvey

    Garvey incorporated the Negro Factories League

    U.S.
    Jan, 1920

    In January 1920, Garvey incorporated the Negro Factories League, through which he opened a string of grocery stores, a restaurant, a steam laundry, and publishing house.


  • Canada
    Jan, 1920
    Marcus Garvey

    Two-week honeymoon in Canada

    Canada
    Jan, 1920

    The newlyweds embarked on a two-week honeymoon in Canada, accompanied by a small UNIA retinue, including Jacques. There, Garvey spoke at two mass meetings in Montreal and three in Toronto.


  • Panama
    1920
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal Zone

    Panama
    1920

    From 1920, Eisenhower served under a succession of talented generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall. He first became executive officer to General Conner in the Panama Canal Zone, where, joined by Mamie, he served until 1924.


  • Ireland
    Mar, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Black and Tans

    Ireland
    Mar, 1920

    The British increased the use of force; reluctant to deploy the regular British Army into the country in greater numbers, they set up two paramilitary police units to aid the RIC. The Black and Tans were seven thousand strong, mainly ex-British soldiers demobilized after World War I. Deployed to Ireland in March 1920, most came from English and Scottish cities. While officially they were part of the RIC, in reality, they were a paramilitary force.


  • Germany
    Saturday Mar 13, 1920
    Weimar Republic

    A coup attempt against the Weimar Republic

    Germany
    Saturday Mar 13, 1920

    On 13 March 1920 during the Kapp Putsch, 12,000 Freikorps soldiers occupied Berlin and installed Wolfgang Kapp, a right-wing journalist, as chancellor.


  • Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Mar 20, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork Death

    Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Mar 20, 1920

    In March 1920, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in front of his wife at his home, by men with blackened faces who were seen returning to the local police barracks. The jury at the inquest into his death returned a verdict of wilful murder against David Lloyd George (the British Prime Minister) and District Inspector Swanzy, among others. Swanzy was later tracked down and killed in Lisburn, County Antrim. This pattern of killings and reprisals escalated in the second half of 1920 and in 1921.


  • Germany
    Wednesday Mar 31, 1920
    Adolf Hitler

    Discharged from the army

    Germany
    Wednesday Mar 31, 1920

    Hitler was discharged from the army on 31 March 1920 and began working full-time for the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party).


  • Ireland
    Apr, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    The Irish Republican Police (IRP) was founded

    Ireland
    Apr, 1920

    The Irish Republican Police (IRP) was founded between April and June 1920, under the authority of Dáil Éireann and the former IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Brugha to replace the RIC and to enforce the ruling of the Dáil Courts, set up under the Irish Republic.


  • Ireland
    Apr, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    400 abandoned RIC barracks were burned to the ground to prevent them being used again

    Ireland
    Apr, 1920

    In early April 1920, 400 abandoned RIC barracks were burned to the ground to prevent them being used again, along with almost one hundred income tax offices. The RIC withdrew from much of the countryside, leaving it in the hands of the IRA.


  • Belgium
    1920
    Penicillin

    Andre Gratia and Sara Dath observed a fungal contamination in one of their Staphylococcus aureus cultures that was inhibiting the growth of the bacterium

    Belgium
    1920

    In Belgium in 1920, Andre Gratia and Sara Dath observed a fungal contamination in one of their Staphylococcus aureus cultures that was inhibiting the growth of the bacterium. They identified the fungus as a species of Penicillium and presented their observations as a paper, but it received little attention. An Institut Pasteur scientist, Costa Rican Clodomiro Picado Twight, similarly recorded the antibiotic effect of Penicillium in 1923.


  • Germany
    1920
    World War 1

    Aftermath of the war

    Germany
    1920

    In the aftermath of the war, four empires disappeared: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian. Numerous nations regained their former independence, and new ones were created.


  • Australia (British Empire then)
    1920
    Edward VIII

    Indigenous Australians

    Australia (British Empire then)
    1920

    Though widely traveled, Edward was racially prejudiced against foreigners and many of the Empire's subjects, believing that whites were inherently superior. In 1920, on a visit to Australia, he wrote of Indigenous Australians: "they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen!! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys."


  • Ireland
    May, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Dublin dockers refused to handle any war matériel and were soon joined by the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union

    Ireland
    May, 1920

    In May 1920, Dublin dockers refused to handle any war matériel and were soon joined by the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, who banned railway drivers from carrying members of the British forces. Blackleg train drivers were brought over from England, after drivers refused to carry British troops. The strike badly hampered British troop movements until December 1920, when it was called off.


  • Wadowice, Poland
    Tuesday May 18, 1920
    Pope John Paul II

    Birth

    Wadowice, Poland
    Tuesday May 18, 1920

    Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice. He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), whose mother's maiden surname was Scholz.


  • Ireland
    Jun, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Assizes failed all across the south and west of Ireland

    Ireland
    Jun, 1920

    In June–July 1920, assizes failed all across the south and west of Ireland; trials by jury could not be held because jurors would not attend. The collapse of the court system demoralised the RIC and many police resigned or retired.


  • Carantec, Brittany, France
    Tuesday Jun 8, 1920
    Igor Stravinsky

    Moving To The Fishing Village of Carantec

    Carantec, Brittany, France
    Tuesday Jun 8, 1920

    On 8 June 1920, the entire family left Morges for the last time, and moved to the fishing village of Carantec in Brittany for the summer while also seeking a new home in Paris.


  • Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 19, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    First cycle of attacks

    Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    Saturday Jun 19, 1920

    The first cycle of attacks and reprisals broke out in the summer of 1920. On 19 June a week of inter-sectarian rioting and sniping started in Derry, resulting in 18 deaths.


  • U.S.
    1920
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

    U.S.
    1920

    In 1920, Du Bois published Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil, the first of three autobiographies he would write.


  • Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
    Monday Jun 28, 1920
    World War II

    Treaty of Versailles

    Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, Paris, France
    Monday Jun 28, 1920

    Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost around 13 percent of its home territory and all its overseas possessions, limits were placed on the size and and capability of the country's armed forces.


  • Ireland
    Jul, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    The Auxiliaries arrived in Ireland

    Ireland
    Jul, 1920

    In July 1920, another quasi-military police body, the Auxiliaries, consisting of 2,215 former British army officers, arrived in Ireland. The Auxiliary Division had a reputation just as bad as the Tans for their mistreatment of the civilian population but tended to be more effective and more willing to take on the IRA. The policy of reprisals, which involved public denunciation or denial and private approval, was famously satirised by Lord Hugh Cecil when he said: "It seems to be agreed that there is no such thing as reprisals but they are having a good effect".


  • Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Jul 17, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    British Colonel Gerald Smyth was assassinated by the IRA in the County Club in Cork city

    Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Jul 17, 1920

    On 17 July 1920, a British Colonel Gerald Smyth was assassinated by the IRA in the County Club in Cork city in response to a speech that was made to police officers of Listowel who had refused orders to move into the more urban areas, in which he stated "you may make mistakes occasionally, and innocent persons may be shot, but that cannot be helped.


  • Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Wednesday Jul 21, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Loyalists marched on the Harland and Wolff shipyards

    Belfast, Northern Ireland
    Wednesday Jul 21, 1920

    On 21 July 1920, partly in response to the killing of Smyth and partly because of competition over jobs due to the high unemployment rate, loyalists marched on the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast and forced over 7,000 Catholic and left-wing Protestant workers from their jobs. Sectarian rioting broke out in response in Belfast and Derry, resulting in about 40 deaths and many Catholics and Protestants being expelled from their homes.


  • Tokyo, Japan
    Jul, 1920
    Yasunari Kawabata

    The First upper school

    Tokyo, Japan
    Jul, 1920

    Kawamata hoped to pass the exams of First Upper School, which was under the direction of the Tokyo Imperial University. He succeeded in the exam the same year and entered the Humanities Faculty as an English major in July 1920. A young Kawabata, by this time, was enamored by the works of another Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.


  • U.S.
    Jul, 1920
    Marcus Garvey

    Garvey sacked both the Black Star Line's secretary and its captain

    U.S.
    Jul, 1920

    In July 1920, Garvey sacked both the Black Star Line's secretary, Edward D. Smith-Green, and its captain, Joshua Cockburn; the latter was accused of corruption.


  • Sèvres, France
    Sunday Aug 1, 1920
    Armenian Genocide

    Treaty of Sèvres

    Sèvres, France
    Sunday Aug 1, 1920

    Article 230 of the Treaty of Sèvres required the Ottoman Empire to hand over to the Allied Powers the persons responsible for the massacres committed during the war on 1 August 1914.


  • Ireland
    Aug, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    The Central fact of the present situation in Ireland is that the Irish Republic exists

    Ireland
    Aug, 1920

    The British Liberal journal, The Nation, wrote in August 1920 that "the central fact of the present situation in Ireland is that the Irish Republic exists".


  • Ireland
    Monday Aug 9, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    British Parliament passed the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act

    Ireland
    Monday Aug 9, 1920

    On 9 August 1920, the British Parliament passed the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act. It replaced the trial by jury by courts-martial by regulation for those areas where IRA activity was prevalent.


  • United Kingdom
    1920
    X-ray

    Heated-cathode X-ray tubes

    United Kingdom
    1920

    In 1904, John Ambrose Fleming invented the thermionic diode, the first kind of vacuum tube. This used a hot cathode that caused an electric current to flow in a vacuum. This idea was quickly applied to X-ray tubes, and hence heated-cathode X-ray tubes, called "Coolidge tubes", completely replaced the troublesome cold cathode tubes by about 1920.


  • Sèvres, France
    Tuesday Aug 10, 1920
    Ottoman Empire

    Treaty of Sèvres

    Sèvres, France
    Tuesday Aug 10, 1920

    The partition of the Ottoman Empire was finalized under the terms of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. This treaty, as designed in the Conference of London, allowed the Sultan to retain his position and title. The status of Anatolia was problematic given the occupied forces.


  • Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
    Sunday Aug 22, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    RIC Detective Swanzy was shot dead by Cork IRA men

    Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
    Sunday Aug 22, 1920

    On 22 August 1920, RIC Detective Swanzy was shot dead by Cork IRA men while leaving a church in Lisburn, County Antrim. Swanzy had been blamed by an inquest jury for the killing of Cork Mayor Tomás Mac Curtain.


  • Madison Square Gardens, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1920
    Marcus Garvey

    25,000 people assembled in Madison Square Gardens

    Madison Square Gardens, New York City, New York, U.S.
    Aug, 1920

    In August 1920, UNIA organized the First International Conference of the Negro Peoples in Harlem. This parade was attended by Gabriel Johnson, the Mayor of Monrovia in Liberia. As part of it, an estimated 25,000 people assembled in Madison Square Gardens.


  • Garches, France
    Sep, 1920
    Igor Stravinsky

    Coco Chanel Invited Stravinsky and His Family To Reside at Her New Mansion "Bel Respiro"

    Garches, France
    Sep, 1920

    On hearing of their dilemma, couturière Coco Chanel invited Stravinsky and his family to reside at her new mansion "Bel Respiro" in the Paris suburb of Garches until they could find a more suitable residence; they arrived during the second week of September. At the same time, Chanel also guaranteed the new (December 1920) Ballets Russes production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring with an anonymous gift to Diaghilev, said to have been 300,000 francs.


  • Italy
    Sep, 1920
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini's speech about "natural law"

    Italy
    Sep, 1920

    Mussolini asserted there was a "natural law" for stronger peoples to subject and dominate "inferior" peoples such as the "barbaric" Slavic peoples of Yugoslavia. He stated in a September 1920 speech.


  • Vienna, Austria-Hungary
    Monday Sep 20, 1920
    Josip Broz Tito

    Returned to his homeland

    Vienna, Austria-Hungary
    Monday Sep 20, 1920

    In the autumn of 1920 he and his pregnant wife returned to his homeland, first by train to Narva, by ship to Stettin, then by train to Vienna, where they arrived on 20 September.


  • Kumrovec, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    Oct, 1920
    Josip Broz Tito

    Home

    Kumrovec, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
    Oct, 1920

    In early October Broz returned home to Kumrovec in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to find that his mother had died and his father had moved to Jastrebarsko near Zagreb.


  • Vilnius, Lithuania
    Thursday Oct 7, 1920
    League of Nations

    Resolving the border demarcation crisis between Poland and Lithuania

    Vilnius, Lithuania
    Thursday Oct 7, 1920

    Poland and Lithuania both regained their independence but soon became immersed in territorial disputes. During the Polish–Soviet War, Lithuania signed the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union that laid out Lithuania's frontiers. On 7 October 1920, the League negotiated the Suwałki Agreement establishing a cease-fire and a demarcation line between the two nations.


  • Mexico City, Mexico
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1920
    Mexican Revolution

    Alvaro Obregón was elected President

    Mexico City, Mexico
    Tuesday Oct 26, 1920

    Alvaro Obregón was elected president in October 1920, the first of a string of revolutionary generals.


  • Ireland
    Nov, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Violence escalated steadily from that summer and sharply

    Ireland
    Nov, 1920

    Violence escalated steadily from that summer and sharply after November 1920 until July 1921. (It was in this period that a mutiny broke out among the Connaught Rangers, stationed in India. Two were killed whilst trying to storm an armory and one was later executed).


  • Ireland
    Monday Nov 1, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Twenty-four men were executed by the British

    Ireland
    Monday Nov 1, 1920

    Between 1 November 1920 and 7 June 1921 twenty-four men were executed by the British.


  • Cork, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 21, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Bloody Sunday

    Cork, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 21, 1920

    About 300 people had been killed by late 1920, but the conflict escalated in November. On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, 21 November 1920, fourteen British intelligence operatives were assassinated in the morning; then in the afternoon the RIC opened fire on a crowd at a Gaelic football match, killing fourteen civilians and wounding 65. A week later, seventeen Auxiliaries were killed by the IRA in the Kilmichael Ambush in County Cork.


  • Dublin, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 21, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    There was a day of dramatic bloodshed in Dublin

    Dublin, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 21, 1920

    Then, on 21 November 1920, there was a day of dramatic bloodshed in Dublin. In the early morning, Collins' Squad attempted to wipe out the leading British intelligence operatives in the capital. The Squad shot 19 people, killing 14 and wounding 5. These consisted of British Army officers, police officers and civilians. The dead included members of the Cairo Gang and a courts-martial officer, and were killed at different places around Dublin.


  • Cork, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 28, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Ambushed a patrol of Auxiliaries

    Cork, Ireland
    Sunday Nov 28, 1920

    On 28 November 1920, only a week after Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the west Cork unit of the IRA, under Tom Barry, ambushed a patrol of Auxiliaries at Kilmichael in County Cork, killing all but one of the 18-man patrol.


  • Hunan, China
    Dec, 1920
    Mao Zedong

    2nd Marriage

    Hunan, China
    Dec, 1920

    In the consequent reorganization of the provincial administration, Mao was appointed headmaster of the junior section of the First Normal School. Now receiving a large income, he married Yang Kaihui in the winter of 1920.


  • Paris, France
    Dec, 1920
    Ho Chi Minh

    Quốc (Ho) became a Representative To The Congress of Tours of The Socialist Party of France

    Paris, France
    Dec, 1920

    In December 1920, Quốc (Ho) became a representative to the Congress of Tours of the Socialist Party of France, voted for the Third International and was a founding member of the French Communist Party. Taking a position in the Colonial Committee of the party, he tried to draw his comrades' attention towards people in French colonies including Indochina, but his efforts were often unsuccessful.


  • Ireland
    Dec, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Government of Ireland Act 1920

    Ireland
    Dec, 1920

    In the Government of Ireland Act 1920 (enacted in December 1920), the British government attempted to solve the conflict by creating two Home Rule parliaments in Ireland: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. While Dáil Éireann ignored this, deeming the Irish Republic to be already in existence, Unionists in the north-east accepted it and prepared to form their own government.


  • Cork, Ireland
    Friday Dec 10, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    Martial law was proclaimed in Counties Cork

    Cork, Ireland
    Friday Dec 10, 1920

    On 10 December 1920, martial law was proclaimed in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary in Munster; in January 1921 martial law was extended to the rest of Munster in Counties Clare and Waterford, as well as Counties Kilkenny and Wexford in Leinster.


  • China
    1920
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1920 Haiyuan landslides

    China
    1920

    1920 Haiyuan landslides; triggered by the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China. The death toll from this landslide is estimated to be 100,000 people.


  • Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Dec 11, 1920
    Irish War of Independence

    IRA ambush in the city

    Cork, Ireland
    Saturday Dec 11, 1920

    On 11 December, the centre of Cork City was burnt out by the Black and Tans, who then shot at firefighters trying to tackle the blaze, in reprisal for an IRA ambush in the city on 11 December 1920 which killed one Auxiliary and wounded eleven.


  • China
    1920
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1920 Haiyuan Earthquake

    China
    1920

    1920 Haiyuan earthquake occurred on December 16 in Haiyuan County, Ningxia Province, Republic of China. It was also called the 1920 Gansu earthquake because Ningxia was a part of Gansu Province when the earthquake occurred. The earthquake hit at 19:05:53 Gansu-Sichuan time (12:05:53 UTC), reportedly 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale, and was followed by a series of aftershocks for three years. Total casualties were reported as 200,000 in a summary published by the United States Geological Survey, and 235,502 according to the Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (through 2008) maintained by the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering.


  • Brazil, Indiana, U.S.
    1920
    Jimmy Hoffa

    Death of His Father

    Brazil, Indiana, U.S.
    1920

    His father, who was of German descent (now referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry), died in 1920 from lung disease when Hoffa was seven years old.


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