Explore 2699 historical events from 1920–1929.
Edward Carpenter was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a s…
Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (born 1844)
Gladys Brockwell was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.
Gladys Brockwell, American actress (born 1894)
William Henry Johnson, commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to en…
Henry Johnson, American sergeant (born 1897)
Ève Lavallière was a French stage actress and later a noteworthy Catholic penitent and member of the Secular Franciscan Order.
Ève Lavallière, French actress (born 1866)
William Mosforth was an English footballer who played either as an inside or outside left. Born in Sheffield he played for several Sheffield clubs but the majority of his career wa…
Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (born 1857)
Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.
Robert Henri, American painter and educator (born 1865)
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
Sydney Edward Gregory, sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-…
Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1870)
Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded…
Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)
Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.
Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's righ…
Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (born 1847)
Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis. The Fatou lemma and the Fatou set are name…
Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1878)
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicia…
Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (born 1854)
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and…
Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (born 1872)
Herman Potočnik was an Austrian officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as a pioneer and visionary of modern space flight and is remembered mainly fo…
Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (born 1892)
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from A…
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California
The Lateran Treaty was one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, agreements between Italy under King Victor Emmanuel III and Duce Benito Mussolini and the Holy See under Pope Piu…
The Lateran Treaty was ratified to bring Vatican City into existence, thus ending the "Roman question"
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be …
Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Min
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be …
Margaret Bondfield became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of La
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian spiritual figure, speaker, and writer. Adopted by members of the Theosophical Society as a child, Krishnamurti was raised to fill the mantle of the…
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World…
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight servi…
The German airship Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is an annual parade held since 1929 in Chicago, Illinois. The Bud Billiken Day Parade is the largest African-American parade in the United States…
The first Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the oldest and largest African-American parade in the United States, was…
The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. Its most famous section, known by the same name, o…
A long-running dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into a…
The Jinan incident or 3 May Tragedy began as a 3 May 1928 dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) and Japanese soldiers and civilians in Jinan, the capi…
The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to