Timeline April 1920

Events in April 1920 9

• 1887 – 1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) Died 26 April 1920, aged 32 Self-taught Indian mathematician who made extraordinary contributions to number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions despite having almost no formal training. His collaboration with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge produced results still studied today. He died of illness shortly after returning to India.
• 1918 – 1920 The influenza pandemic Worldwide First recorded at a Kansas army camp and spread by troop movements, the pandemic killed somewhere between 25 and 50 million people — more than the war itself. Wartime censorship meant only neutral Spain reported it freely, which is how it got its name.
• 1920 Easter Crisis 1920 Constitutional Crisis A standoff between King Christian X and the government over the border with Germany; it solidified the parliaments power.
• 1920 Nabi Musa Riots Violence erupts in Jerusalem during religious festival Arab-Jewish violence broke out in Jerusalem during the annual Nabi Musa festival, leaving several people dead and many wounded on both sides. The unrest prompted British authorities to tighten control over the city. The riots are often cited as an early episode of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• 1920 – 2012 Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) Died 11 December 2012, aged 92 Indian musician and composer credited with popularizing the sitar and Indian classical music in the West. He mentored George Harrison of the Beatles and performed at Woodstock and the Concert for Bangladesh.
• 1920 Ravi Shankar born in Benares Varanasi Born in the holy city of Benares.
• 1920 San Remo Conference Allied powers allocate League of Nations mandates in the Middle East Allied leaders meeting in San Remo, Italy, decided the allocation of mandates over former Ottoman territories, assigning Palestine and Iraq to Britain and Syria and Lebanon to France. The conference incorporated the Balfour Declaration's support for a Jewish national home in Palestine into the mandate terms. The decisions shaped the political map of the modern Middle East.
• 1920 1920 Summer Olympics VII Olympiad - Antwerp First time the Olympic flag was flown. Winner: USA.
• 1920 Sovietization of Azerbaijan Red Army invasion ends Azerbaijani independence The Soviet 11th Army invaded the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and installed a Bolshevik government in Baku, ending the country's brief period of independence. Azerbaijan became a Soviet republic and was later incorporated into the Transcaucasian SFSR. It did not regain independence until 1991.