1920

In Paris the League of Nations is formed. United States Senate votes against joining.
Paul Deschanel becomes President of France. Clemenceau resigns; Millerand takes over as Premier of France.
Red Army captures Odessa.
Bainbridge Colby succeeds Robert Lansing as U.S. Secretary of State.
Nicolaus von Horthy (1868-1957) is named Regent of Hungary.
Emir Feisal becomes king of an independent Syria.
Wolfgang Kapp stages a short-lived monarchist coup d'etat in Berlin.
Conference of San Remo deals with question of German reparations; Britain receives Palestine Mandate.
Conscription abolished in Britain.
President Caranza of Mexico is assassinated. Adolfo de la Huerta succeeds him.
Allies and Hungary sign Treaty of Trianon.
Republican convention nominates Warren G. Harding for the presidency with Calvin Coolidge as his running mate.
The Hague selected as the seat of International Court of Justice.
Democratic convention nominates James M. Cox for the presidency with Franklin D. Roosevelt as his running mate.
Lord John Fisher, British Admiral dies, (b. 1841)
Eugenie, Empress of France, consort to Napoleon III dies, (b. 1826).
Treaty of St. Germain comes into force.
The Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) formed.
19^th Amendment gives American women the right to vote.
U.S. and China sign tarrif treaty.
Alexandre Millerand elected French Premier.
King Alexander of Greece dies, (b. 1893)
League of Nations headquarters moved to Geneva.
Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) elected 29^th president of the United States.
New Austrian constitution comes into force.
Treaty of Rapallo signed.
Danzig declared a free city.
End of Russian Civil War.
Convention of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica
Alvaro Obregon elected President of Mexico.
King Constantine of Greece returns to Athens as a result of plebiscite.
Government of Ireland Act passed by the British Parliament.
Northern and Southern Ireland are each to have own Parliament.
Otto Meissner (1880-1953) head of the office of the German president (-1945)
Adoph Hitler announces his 25-point program at the Hofbrauhaus, Munich.
Gandhi (1869-1948) emerges as India's leader in its struggle for independence.
Royal Institute of International Affairs founded in London.
Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested and indicted for murder of two men in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

Literature & Theater

Arnolt Bronnen: "Vatermond"- German expressionist drama
Van Wyck Brroks: "The Ordeal of Mark Twain"
Agatha Christie: "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
Colette: "Cheri"
F. Wills Crofts: "The Cask"- One of the first modern detective stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise"
John Galsworthy: "In Chancery" and "The Skin Game"
Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun
Franz Kafka: "A Country Doctor"
Karl Kraus: "Die letzen Tage der Menscheit" (The Last Days of Mankind), tragedy
Sinclair Lewis: "Main Street"
Emel Ludwig: "Goethe"
A. Milne: "Mr. Pym Passes By"
Eugene O'Neill: "The Emperor Jones" and "Beyond the Horizon" (Pulitzer Prize for drama)
Carl Sandburg: "Smoke and Steel"
Upton Sinclair: "100%, the Story of a Patriot"
H.G. Wells: "Outline of History"
Edith Wharton: " The Age of Innocence", (Pulitzer Prize in 1921)

Religion, Philosophy, and Learning

Alfred Adler: "The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology"
Samuel Alexander: "Space, Time, and Deity" English Metaphysical realism
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) canonized by Pope Benedict XV
C.G. Jung: "Psychological Types"
Count Herman von Keyserling opens the "School of Wisdom" at Darmstadt
Bertrand Russell: "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism"
George Santayana: "Character and Opinion in the United States"
Nathan Soderblom: "Introduction to the History of Religion"
New Universities founded in Honolulu and Rio de Janeiro

Visual Arts

Visitors to the exhibition of Dadaist Art in Cologne are allowed to smash painting.
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) "Church" American cubism
Films: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"; "the Golem"; "Polyanna" (With Mary Pickford"; "Cesare borgia" Marcel Duchamp makes his first abstract movie
Max Klinger, german painter and sculptor dies, (b. 1856)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) "L'Odalisque"
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter, dies (b. 1884)
Fernand Leger: "The Tug Boat"

Music

Christmas Radio Concert from Konigswusterhausen, Germany
Beniamino Gigli makes his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Vincent d'Indy: "The Legend of St. Christopher", Paris Opera
Jerome Kern: "Sally", New York
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: "Die tote Staft" ("The Dead City"), Hamburg
Oskar Straus: "Der Letzte Walzer" (The Last Waltz) Berlin
Igor Stravinski: "Pulcinella" and "Le Chant du rossignol", ballets, Paris Opera
Paul Whiteman tours Europe with his band
Henry Hadley: "Cleopatra's Night" American opera, New York Metropolitan Opera
Ralph Vaughan Williams: "London Symphony", the final version
Camille Saint-Saens Festival held in Athens
Gustav Holst: "The Planets" first complete performance given in London

Science, Technology, and Growth

American surgeon Harvey Cushing develops new techniques in brain surgery
Arthur Stanley Eddington: "Space, Time, and Gravitation"
Austrian meteorologist Heinrich von Ficker recognizes the importance of the stratosphere in meteorological phenomena
German engineer Anton Flettner invents the rotor ship, originally designed to propel ships with metal sails
Nobel Prize for Medicine: August Krogh (1874-1949) for the discovery of the capillary regulation of the conveyance of blood to the muscles
Nobel Prize for Physics: edouard Guillaume (1861-1938) for discoveries of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Walther Nernst (1864-1941) for his formulation of the heat theorem
Robert Edwin Peary, American Arctic explorer dies (b. 1856)
Raschig-process utilizes hydrogen chloride in the chlorination of benzene
Swiss psychiatrist Herman Rorschach (1884-1922) devises the "inkblot" test
Herman Staudinger (1881-1965) shows that small molecules polymerize by chemical interaction (plastics)
Retired American army officer John T. Thompson patents his submachine gun (Tommy gun)
German astronomer Max Wolf (1863-1932) shows the true structure of the Milky Way for the first time (early application of photography to the discovery of asteroids

Daily Life

Ethelda M. Bleibtrey, American swimming champion is three-time winner at the Antwerp Olympics
Mexican Alfredo Codona, the great aerialist becomes the first person to perfect the triple-somersault
In Britain, 3,747 divorces are granted
Earthquake in Kansu province, China, claims 200,000 victims
American Professional Football association is formed
Marconi opens the first public broadcasting station in Britain at Writtle
Olympic games: after 8 year hiatus, the games are held at Antwerp: 24 sports, 154 events, 2,606 participants, 29 nations,; U.S. wins most events
Pasadena Rose bowl: Harvard defeats Oregon 7-6; New Year's Day continues uninterrupted until 1942
"Babe" Ruth sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000
Statistics- Coal Production: U.S. 645 million tons; Britain 229 million tons, Germany 107 million tons. Petroleum production: U.S. 443 million barrels; Mexico 163 million barrels; Russia 25 million barrels; Motor vehicles licensed: U.S. 8,890,000; Britain 663,000; World Population: 1,811,000,000; New York population: 5,620,000; Los Angeles population: 576,000
Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924) German Industrialist, begins his attempt to organize a colossal trust
William T. Tilden (1893-1953) of the U.S. wins Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, dominates the world tennis till 1925
Site of original baseball filed at Cooperstown, N.Y. dedicated as permanent memorial
Westinghouse Company opens the first American broadcasting station in Pittsburgh, Pa
"Time and Tide" begin to appear
Unemployment insurance introduced in Britain and Austria
The sport of water skiing pioneered on Lake Annecy, Maute Savoie, France
Result of U.S. census of 1920: population 117,823,165
Bomb explosion in Wall Street kills 35, wounds 130
"Man O'War" U.S. thoroughbred is retired after winning 20 of 21 races, including the Belmont and Preakness
First airmail flight from New York to San Francisco
18^th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect: Prohibition throughout the United States.
Tea bags are developed and sold
U.S. public debt is $105,700

Occult/Mythos Happenings

Shafts of light project from the Moon
Furry humanoid killed and photographed on Colombian-Venezuelan border

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