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News and Events of 1920

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Léon Bourgeois (France)

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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
Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.

President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Population: 106,461,000

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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).

Federal spending:   $6.36 billion
Consumer Price Index:   20
Unemployment:   5.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

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Cleveland d. Brooklyn (5-2)

Ottawa d. Seattle (PCHA) (3-2)

Women: Suzanne Lenglen d. D. Chambers (6-3 6-0)
Men: Bill Tilden d. G. Patterson (2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4)

Paul Jones

California (9-0-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Drama: Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O'Neill

Nobel Prize for Literature: Knut Hamsun (Norway)

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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.

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

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.