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1920 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1920 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1920

• January 26, 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• February 20, 1920 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
• April 15, 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• April 25, 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class “A” League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
• May 9, 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
• June 11, 1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase “smoke-filled room”.
• July 29, 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
• October 10, 1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.
• November 2, 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
• November 28, 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.

Who Were Born On 1920?

• January 9, 1920 – Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (d. 1998)
• March 20, 1920 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• April 21, 1920 – Ronald Magill, English actor (d. 2007)
• May 20, 1920 – John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant and banker, Victoria Cross recipient
• June 12, 1920 – Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• June 20, 1920 – Thomas Jefferson, American trumpet player
• July 12, 1920 – Randolph Quirk, Manx linguist and academic
• August 1, 1920 – Jeffrey Segal, English actor (d.2015)
• August 22, 1920 – Denton Cooley, American soldier and surgeon
• November 23, 1920 – Paul Celan, Ukrainian-French poet and translator (d. 1970)