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  • 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.




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