Explore 1388 historical events from 1920–1929.
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent film…
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first two celebrities to make imprints of their hands and feet in cement
Charles Eugène Jules Marie Nungesser was a French ace pilot and adventurer. Nungesser was a renowned ace in France, ranking third highest in the country with 43 air combat victorie…
French aviators Charles Nungesser and François Coli aboard the biplane L'Oiseau Blanc took off from Paris, attempting to
A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or an equivalent institution.
Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing
The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that Charles Lindbergh flew on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic…
Aboard the Spirit of St
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an in…
The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to com
Jannat al-Baqī is the oldest and first Islamic cemetery of Medina located in the Hejazi region of present-day Saudi Arabia. It is also known as Baqi al-Gharqad.
Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis
The Treaty of Berlin was a treaty signed on 24 April 1926 under which Germany and the Soviet Union pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for fi…
The Treaty of Berlin is signed
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continenta…
The United Kingdom general strike begins
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator …
Admiral Richard E
The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 11 through 14 May 1926. It was also the fi…
The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole
A general strike took place in the United Kingdom from 4 to 12 May 1926. It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force…
The 1926 United Kingdom general strike ends
Evangelism, evangelisation, or witnessing, is the act of sharing the Christian gospel, the message and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is typically done with the intention of convert…
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California
The College Board, styled as CollegeBoard, is an American not-for-profit organization. It was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand acc…
The College Board administers the first SAT exam
Pierre Jacques Louis Fabre was a French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive and pharmacist, who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre in 1962. Fabre, a rugby enthusiast, was also th…
Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (died 2013)
Joan Lorring was an American actress and singer known for her work in film and theatre. For her role as Bessy Watty in The Corn Is Green (1945), Lorring was nominated for the Acade…
Joan Lorring, British actress (died 2014)
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and head of the Nationalist government f…
Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China
Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard was a Bessarabian-born Russian-French Yiddish poet. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for organis…
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is
Mohammed ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi, better known as Abd el-Krim, was a Moroccan revolutionary, religious, political and military leader and the president of the Republic of the Rif…
Abd el-Krim ends surrenders to the French, bringing an end to the Rif War
The 28 May 1926 coup d'état, sometimes called 28 May Revolution or, during the period of the corporatist Estado Novo, the National Revolution, was a military coup of a nationalist …
The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by popul…
Brazil leaves the League of Nations
King Roger is an opera in three acts by Karol Szymanowski to a Polish libretto by the composer himself and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the composer's cousin. The score was finished in 1…
King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw
Joseph Gerald George McNeil was a professional ice hockey goaltender who won three Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens between 1947 and 1956.
Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2004)
Douglas John Insole was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University, Essex and in nine Test matches for England, five of them on the 1956–57 tour of South Africa, whe…
Doug Insole, English cricketer (died 2017)
Rawya Ateya[I] was an Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world in 1957.
Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (died 1997)[citation needed]