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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

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Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 January-June
1.2 July-December

2 Year in topic
3 Births

3.3 January
3.4 February-March
3.5 April-September
3.6 October-December

4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes

Events

January-June

January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
January 21 - Albania declares itself a republic
January 30 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul
February 21 - The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio.
March 13 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
March 18 - The Tri-State Tornado raked through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana and killed 695 people.
May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded.
June 13 - Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision"

July-December

July 10 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
July 10 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union called the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
July 18 - Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
July 21 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
October 30 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
November 28 - Country-variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM (it would later become the longest-running live music show).
December 1 - World War I aftermath: Locarno Treaties - The final Locarno Pact is signed in London, establshing post-war territorial settlements in return for normalizing relations with defeated Germany.
December 15 - Reza Pahlavi takes his imperial oath and becomes Shah of Iran.
Modern revival of ancient Latvian mythology begins, called Dievturiba
Scopes Trial testing a law favouring Creationism over Evolution.
Sweden decides on extensive disarmament.
Spanish and French expeditionary forces landing at Alhucemas during the war of the Rif.
Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for colour television
The Woodcraft Folk, an organisation for young people to promote equality, peace, social justice and cooperation, founded in London.
Introduction of London's first double decker buses.
Britain returns to the Gold Standard.

Year in topic

Births

January

January 6 - John DeLorean, auto maker
January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist
January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
January 11 - Grant Tinker, television executive
January 11 - William Styron, writer
January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (d. 2000)
January 14 - Yukio Mishima, writer (d. 1970)
January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, theologian, author and politician
January 21 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (d. 1992)
January 24 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
January 26 - Paul Newman, actor
January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress
January 31 - Benjamin Hooks, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

February-March

February 1 - Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist
February 2 - Elaine Stritch, actress
February 4 - Russell Hoban, writer
February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director (d. 2001)
February 11 - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral.
February 11 - Kim Stanley, actress.
February 11 - Virginia Johnson, doctor/sexologist.
February 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician
February 17 - Hal Holbrook, actor
February 18 - George Kennedy, actor
February 20 - Robert Altman, film director
February 20 - Heinz Kluncker, labor union leader
February 21 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)
February 25 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (d. 2000)
March 4 - Paul Mauriat, musician
March 25 - Flannery O'Connor, author (d. 1964)
March 26 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor

April-September

April 2 - Hans Rosenthal, showmaster (d. 1987)
April 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, author
April 3 - Tony Benn, British politician
April 14 - Rod Steiger, actor
April 25 - Sammy Drechsel, journalist, film director and cabaretist (d. 1986)
May 6 - Hanns Dieter HÃÂÃÂ¼sch, cabaretist
May 12 - Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer
May 19 - Pol Pot - Cambodian dictator (d. 1998)
May 19 - Malcolm X (d. 1965)
May 22 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist (d. 1991)
May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
June 26 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970)
July 6 - Bill Haley, rock and roll musician.
July 18 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
July 29 - Ted Lindsay, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
August 15 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
August 19 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
September 7 - Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter
September 16 - Charles Haughey, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
September 20 - James Galanos, fashion designer

October-December

October 13 - Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister (1979-1990)
October 16 - Angela Lansbury, American actress
October 24 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer
November 17 - Charles Mackerras, conductor
November 20 - Robert Kennedy (d. 1968)
November 24 - William F. Buckley, Jr, author, commentator
November 26 - Eugene Istomin, pianist (d. 2003)
December 28 - Hildegard Knef, actress, singer and writer

Deaths

March 12 - Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary, politician
March 20 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman
April 14 - John Singer Sargent, artist
May 12 - Amy Lowell, poet
May 14 - H. Rider Haggard, author
June 16 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician (b. 1903)
July 1 - Erik Satie - French composer
July 26 - William Jennings Bryan - American politician.
August 25 - Franz Conrad von HÃÂÃÂ¶tzendorf - Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, WWI
September 4 ÃÂÃÂ Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, horseman, member of the Vanderbilt family
November 20 - Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
George Washington Cable - American writer

Nobel Prizes

Main article: Nobel Prizes

Physics - James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Chemistry - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Medicine - not awarded
Literature - George Bernard Shaw
Peace - Sir Austen Chamberlain Charles Gates Dawes