Top News Stories from 1920
World Events
World Statistics
Population: 4.378 billion
population by decade Nobel Peace Prize: Léon Bourgeois (France)
More World Statistics... - U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported.
- Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
- Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.
- Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Population: 106,461,000
More U.S. Statistics... - Women's suffrage goes into effect following Tennessee's ratification of the 19th amendment (Aug. 26).
- Factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti are picked up by police (May 5) in connection with an April 15 murder and robbery in South Braintree, Mass.
- A bomb explodes in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 and injuring 200 (Sept. 16).
Economics
Federal spending: $6.36 billion
Consumer Price Index: $20
Unemployment: 5.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
Sports
World Series
Cleveland d. Brooklyn (5-2)Stanley Cup
Ottawa d. Seattle (PCHA)Wimbledon
Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. D. Chambers (6-3 6-0)Men: Bill Tilden d. G. Patterson (2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Paul JonesNCAA Football Champions
California (9-0-0) 1920 Summer OlympicsEntertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes Drama: Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill
Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun (Norway)
More Entertainment Awards... Events
- KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast.
- Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, is produced on Broadway and wins a Pulitzer Prize marking the beginning of modern American drama.
- Rising popular interest in African-American literature sparks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Speakeasies replace saloons as the center of social activity.
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Walther Nernst (Germany), for work in thermochemistry
Physics: Charles E. Guillaume (Switzerland), for discoveries of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys
Physiology or Medicine: August Krogh (Denmark), for discovery of regulation of capillaries' motor mechanism
More Nobel Prizes in 1998... - American chemist William Draper Harkins postulates the existence of a subatomic particle, the neutron, a heavy particle of no electric charge.
- The Smithsonian Institution announces Robert Goddard's work with rockets.
