Timeline November 1920

Events in November 1920 13

• 1918 – 1920 Allied occupation of Istanbul -- the empire dismembered Allied forces occupy Istanbul on 13 November 1918 -- three days after the Armistice of Mudros. British, French, Italian and Greek troops patrol the city; Allied warships anchor in the Bosphorus. The Paris Peace Conference produces the Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920), which dismembers the empire: Greece receives Thrace and the Smyrna region (with a plebiscite after five years); Armenia becomes independent; Kurdistan receives autonomy; Britain and France retain their League of Nations mandates in the Middle East. The sultan (Mehmed VI) signs the treaty, discrediting the sultanate. Mustafa Kemal, operating from Ankara, refuses to recognise it.
• 1920 KDKA -- the first commercial radio broadcast Election night, Pittsburgh, 2 November 1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the Harding-Cox presidential election results on 2 November 1920, generally recognised as the first commercially licensed radio broadcast in the United States. The Ottoman Empire, founded in 1299, was still formally in existence at the time and would not be dissolved until 1922.
• 1920 Warren G. Harding Elected US President Republican landslide followed by first broadcast election returns Warren G. Harding won the US presidential election in a landslide over Democrat James M. Cox, campaigning on a return to "normalcy" after the war. Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast the election results, among the first commercial radio broadcasts in the country. Harding took office in March 1921.
• 1920 – 2003 Roy Jenkins (1920-2003) Died 5 January 2003, aged 82 Roy Jenkins was a British Labour home secretary whose reforms in the 1960s liberalised laws on divorce, homosexuality, abortion and censorship. He later served as President of the European Commission and in 1981 co-founded the Social Democratic Party. He was also a prolific political biographer.
• 1920 The Unknown Warrior is buried London, United Kingdom An unidentified body brought back from France was buried in Westminster Abbey among kings. Over a million people filed past in the following week.
• 1920 Treaty of Rapallo Signed Italy and Yugoslavia settle their Adriatic border dispute Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo, resolving territorial disputes left unsettled after World War I and establishing Fiume as a free state. The agreement fixed Italy's eastern border for the interwar period. Disputes over Fiume nonetheless continued in the following years.
• 1920 – 1991 Gene Tierney (1920-1991) American actress celebrated for her beauty and for Laura and Leave Her to Heaven.
• 1920 Gene Tierney born in Brooklyn Gene Tierney is born in Brooklyn.
• 1920 Bloody Sunday in Dublin Violence in the Irish War of Independence kills over thirty IRA operatives assassinated a group of British intelligence officers in Dublin, and British forces retaliated by firing on a crowd at a Gaelic football match, killing fourteen civilians. Further killings followed later the same day. The events marked one of the bloodiest days of the Irish War of Independence.
• 1920 – 2013 Stan Musial (1920-2013) Died 19 January 2013, aged 92 Stan Musial was an American baseball Hall of Famer who spent his entire 22-season career with the St. Louis Cardinals, winning three World Series titles. He died at his home in Missouri.
• 1920 – 2009 Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009) Died 14 January 2009, aged 88 Montalban was a Mexican-American actor best known for playing Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island and Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He worked in Hollywood for over six decades. He also had a long career as an advocate for Latino representation in film.
• 1920 – 2005 Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) American actress, Danny Kaye's leading lady and James Cagney's wife in White Heat.
• 1920 Virginia Mayo born in St. Louis Virginia Mayo is born in St. Louis.