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April 10, 1920 (Saturday) Sonora. The legislature of the Mexican state of Sonora voted to disassociate from the United Mexican States. In a closed door session at Hermosillo, the Sonoran state legislature voted to take up arms to resist President Carranza's attempt to send federal troops into the state.
Apr 28 Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time) Apr 29 Duke Kahanamoku wins his 2nd gold medal of the day in the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team with Perry McGillivray, Pua Kealoha and Norman Ross in world record 10:04.4. Apr 30 The British Government ends military conscription. Mar 1920.
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Apr 28 Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time) Apr 29 Duke Kahanamoku wins his 2nd gold medal of the day in the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team with Perry McGillivray, Pua Kealoha and Norman Ross in world record 10:04.4. Apr 30 The British Government ends military conscription. Events in 1920.
Nov 5, 2020 · 1920 will be remembered as year when the League of Nations was created, the 19th Amendment was passed in America giving women the right to vote, and a flight from London to South Africa took 45 days. In this 1920 timeline, you’ll find all the important events that happened in 1920, 100 years ago.
- The 'New Woman' The most familiar symbol of the “Roaring Twenties” is probably the flapper: a young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said what might be termed “unladylike” things, in addition to being more sexually “free” than previous generations.
- Mass Communication and Consumerism. During the 1920s, many Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on consumer goods such as ready-to-wear clothes and home appliances like electric refrigerators.
- The Jazz Age. Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. (Some pundits called them “bedrooms on wheels.”) What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, the flea hop.
- Prohibition. During the 1920s, some freedoms were expanded while others were curtailed. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1919, had banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors,” and at 12 A.M.
Aug 18, 2012 · 1920 Major News Events in History. January 16th Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition Begins. August 18th Nineteenth Amendment To The Constitution ratified giving women the right to vote. November 21st Irish Revolution Irish Revolution Bloody Sunday (Black and Tans) arrive in Dublin. September 16th Wall Street Bombing.
Jun 7, 2023 · Edgar Hoover began his ascent in 1920. 5. Women gained the right to vote in 1920. 6. The Constitution was amended twice in 1920. 7. The “Lost Generation” began its transformation of American ...
