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1 day ago · March 16, 1920 (Tuesday) British troops in India fired on a mob of strikers at Jamshedpur. [50] Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old student in Center, North Dakota, died from hypothermia while protecting her younger brother and sister in a blizzard that killed 34 people. [55] During the 1920s, Hazel's story would spread through the United States and she ...
2 days ago · Armenia gave way to communist power in late 1920. In November 1920, the Turkish revolutionaries captured Alexandropol and were poised to move in on the capital. A cease fire was concluded on 18 November.
2 days ago · 1920–1929. 1920 4 September: City of Birmingham Orchestra first rehearses (in a police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in the Town Hall.
3 days ago · The Soviet Union first legalized abortion in 1920. The poster c. 1925 warns against unsafe abortion . Title translation: "Abortions performed by either self-taught midwives or obstetricians not only maim the woman, they also often lead to death."
Apr 14, 2024 · c. 968 AD – Magdeburg Ivories; 9th Century AD. 800–820 AD – Easby Cross; 8th Century AD. Ruthwell Cross; 7th Century AD. Late 7th Century AD? – Bewcastle Cross; 652 AD – The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda; 634 AD – Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy by Yan Liben; Early 7th Century AD – Gilt-bronze Maitreya in Meditation
15 hours ago · September: In der New Yorker Wall Street explodiert vor dem Bankgebäude der J. P. Morgan Inc. eine in einem Pferdewagen deponierte Bombe. Es gibt 38 Tote und etwa 400 Verletzte. Als Urheber des Bombenanschlags auf die Wall Street werden anarchistische Kreise vermutet. Wahlplakat der Republikaner für die Wahl 1920.
1 day ago · In 1920, Baghdad became the capital of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia, with several architectural and planning projects commissioned to reinforce this administration. After receiving independence in 1932, the city became capital of the Kingdom of Iraq .
