1920 q3 TimelineJuly01 - Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0.
03 - Royal Air Force holds an air display at Hendon, England.
03 - Java Technical School Bandung opens.
03 - 40th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Patterson (26 63 62 64).
05 - John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies.
05 - Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63.
06 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0.
10 - John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79.
10 - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary.
12 - Lithuania and USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent republic.
15 - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season.
16 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief.
16 - China joins the League of Nations.
16 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54.
16 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0).
20 - Heerenveen soccer team forms.
23 - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony.
25 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win.
26 - Carlos Troyer, composer, dies at 83.
27 - GermanyPolitics The Minister of Public Welfare in Dü;sseldorf forbids Roma and Sinti from entering any public washing or recreational facilities (swimming pools, public baths, spas, parks).
27 - Radio compass used for 1st time for aircraft navigation.
27 - Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup.
29 - First transcontinental, New York to San Francisco, air mail service begins.
29 - Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders.
August00 - 1920 Olympic Games at Antwerp, Belgium.
00 - "The " or the Thompson portable submachine gun (invented by J.T. Thompson), is demonstrated at a national gun show in Ohio. Soon to become the weapon of choice for bootlegging gangsters.
01 - IndiaPolitics Mohandas (later, a.k.a. Mahatma) Gandhi begins national campaign to rally the populace of India to use passive resistance and noncooperation against the occupying British colonialist government.
01 - Papendrecht soccer team forms.
01 - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia.
01 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies.
02 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC.
04 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54.
08 - Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes.
09 - Bulgarian & allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect.
10 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania.
10 - Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate.
10 - Treaty of SŠvres (Allies and Turkey).
September00 - IndiaPolitics Special session of Indian National Congress at Calcutta accepts Gandhi's programme of non-co-operation to redress of Punjab and Khilafat wrongs.
09 - Boston police strike, Gov. Calvin Coolige stops strike and becomes overnight hero
10 - Los Angeles, CARadio Fred Christian begins broadcasting recorded music borrowed from music stores in return for plugs on the air.
12 - 7th Olympic games close in Antwerp Belgium.
15 - RADIO First broadcast by a dance band, Paul Spech and his orchestra.
16 - Bomb kills 30, injures 300 on Wall Street.The bomb is believed to have been thrown by Reds or anarchists. Suspected radicals are arrested and later released, but the perpetrator is never found.
16 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32.
17 - Peter Carl Faberge' dies in exile in Lausanne
17 - Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) & 5th (2) innings.
22 - Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
23 - Alexander Millerand elected president of France.
25 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77.
25 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game.
25 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61).
28 - USASports Black Sox + Scandal rocks Major League Baseball when 8 Chicago White Sox are indicated on charges of fixing the World Series.
28 - Nestor de Ti?re, Flemish playwright (Bride of the Sea), dies.
29 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10.
29 - Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54.
30 - U.S. Pollution study declares urban population larger than rural in U.S.
30 - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC.
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