1920 Events1920x - Sound recording is done electrically.
x - Post Office accepts the postage meter.
x - Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street.
x - Gustav Holtz composes 'The Planets' in London
x - Earthquake in Gansu province, China kills 200,000.
x - Esch-Cummins Transportation Act
x - Merchant Marine Act
x - Art The nihilistic Dada artistic movement, founded in Zurich in 1916 by writer Tristan Tzara, reaches Paris. u.1923.
x - Art First Dada Fair of avant-garde art held in Berlin's Burchard Gallery. Also, a Dada Festival got underway at the Salle Gaveau in Paris.
x - Composer Igor Stravinksy premieres his ballet Pulcinella in France.
x - Bandleader Paul Whiteman and his orchestra release "Whispering," the first record to sell a million copies.
x - John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner report an experiment during which an 11 month old baby was conditioned with the use of a loud noise to fear a white laboratory rat with which it had previously played.
x - Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, introduce the notion of lebensunwertesleben +, "Lives Unworthy of Life."
x - League of Nations holds first meeting at Geneva, Switzerland.
x - Keynes publishes his The Economic Consequences of the Peace. He argues against German war reparations and in favour of mutual cancellation of Allied war debts.
x - Evelyn Scott's Precipitations
x - Juan Gris's Spanish Cubism
x - Ezra Pound's Investigations
x - Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
x - Feininger's American Cubism
x - Katherine Mansfield's Bliss
x - Levi Eshkol helps found Dagania Bet in Palestine
x - Theda Bara leaves Hollywood.
x - Ottoman Sultan signs the Treaty of Sè;vres with the Allies, which dismantles the Ottoman Empire and confines Turkey to the Anatolian Plateau.
x - Charlie Chaplin and his first wife, Mildred Harris, are divorced.
x - AT&T Company receives, on behalf of the Bell System, a Certificate of Merit for services to the nation during the First World War.
x - U.S. scientist A.A. Michelson becomes first to measure the diameter of a distant star, Betelgeuse.
x - Harvey Cushing makes advances in brain surgery.
x - Trojan condoms debut.
x - radio World's first radio broadcasting station opened by radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi in Writtle, England.
x - Tenor Beniamino Gigli, heir apparent to the aging Enrico Caruso, makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
x - Mystery writer Agatha Christie publishes her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
x - Mary Pickford stars in the film Pollyanna.
x - Maurice Ravel's La Valse.
x - Water skiing invented at Lake Annecy in Haute Savoie, France.
x - Edith Wharton's novel Age of Innocence is published. It will win the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.
x - George S. Bliss becomes the superintendent of the Waimano Home for the Feeble-minded in Hawaii
x - George S. Bliss is elected president of the American Association for the study of the Feeble-minded.
x - Red Army takes Odessa
x - Japanese economy enters a chronic depression
x - William Butler Yeats Michael Robartes and the Dancer
x - John Reed dies
x - William Dean Howells dies
x - Olive Schreiner dies
x - Eugene O'Neill wins Pullitzer Prize for Drama
x - T S Eliot's Sacred Wood
x - Revolution in Gyatemmala led by Carlos Hernana overthrows dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
x - Clarence Darrow, Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Helen Keller help found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
x - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor becomes President of the National Geographic Society.
x - Seattle Central Labor Council and other city central labor unions publicly challenge AFL's authority and policies.
x - Zane Grey's The Man of the Forest was a fiction best-seller
x - Indiana Bell Telephone is formed.
x - Illinois Bell Telephone Company is formed.
x - Italian Facists under Benito Mussolini actively combat the communists.
x - Palestine becomes British mandate
x - Indian leader Gandhi launches peaceful non-cooperation movement against British rule
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