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1920 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the ...
t. e. The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, [1] Buenos Aires, [2] [3 ...
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Jun 15, 2010 · Here are 40 ads from the 1920’s that reveal a nation intent on sprinting into the future: The 1920’s were a strange time full of wacky fads, and too much trust in unproven science. Advertisers were beginning to figure out what worked and what didn’t, and their enthusiastic ad copy would attempt to sway even the most incredulous purchasers.
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The King of Spain blesses the Real Madridfootball team.August Krogh, Danish zoologist, won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineJanuary
1. January 2 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer (d. 1992) 2. January 5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995) 3. January 6 – John Maynard Smith, British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (d. 2004) 4. January 9 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 2012) 5. January 19 - Roberto M. Levingston, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015) 6. January 19 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 202...
February
1. February 11 – King Farouk of Egypt (d. 1965) 2. February 26 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004) 3. February 29 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (d. 2016)
March
1. March 11 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2017) 2. March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
January 2 – Paul Adam, French writer (b. 1862)January 3 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (b. 1888)January 4 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)January 6 – Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician (b. 1839)Aug 3, 2015 · 1920 Dreyfus BeachSt BostonGlobe Sept22.png 494 × 409; 124 KB. 1920 electric washer ad.jpg 2,856 × 2,352; 1.7 MB. 1920 FenwayTheatre BostonGlobe January7.png 417 × 120; 37 KB. 1920 Globe theatre BostonGlobe Dec8.png 494 × 419; 103 KB. 1920 Gordons OldSouthTheatre BostonGlobe August30.png 409 × 692; 225 KB.
June 11 – During the 1920 Republican National Convention in Chicago, party leaders gather in a "smoke-filled room" of The Blackstone Hotel to decide their presidential candidate. June 13 – The U.S. Post Office rules that children may not be sent via parcel post. June 14 – Cherokee National Forest is established.
1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade.
