Explore 1388 historical events from 1920–1929.
Margaret Murray Washington was an American educator who was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University. She also led women's …
Margaret Murray Washington, American Academic (born 1865)
Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and mentor of Subhas Chandra Bos…
Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1870)
Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., led to the dev…
Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and psychologist (born 1842)
Felix Christian Klein was a German mathematician, mathematics educator and historian of mathematics, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, a…
Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)
Georgina Febres-Cordero, also known as "Mother Georgina" was a Venezuelan religious sister.
Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (born 1861)
Henry Carl Berghoff was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman who co-founded the Herman Berghoff Brewing Company in 1887 and served as the 19th Mayor of Fort Wayne, India…
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The United Church of Canada is a mainline Protestant denomination that is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada and the second largest Canadian Christian denomina…
The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Str
Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic prime minister of Denmark. He served as prime minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 194…
Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term)
The Klaipėda Convention was an international agreement between Lithuania and the countries of the Conference of Ambassadors signed in Paris on May 8, 1924. According to the convent…
The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania
The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federa…
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The Hope Development School fire started about 9 p.m. on the evening of May 31, 1924 in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California. The fire at the Hope Development School for Deficien…
Hope Development School fire kills 24 people, mostly disabled children
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from…
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The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. After…
British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew Irvine and George Mallory go missing
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement that rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe. Fascism is characterized by suppor…
Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist, best known as a composer of film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest compose…
Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (died 1994)
Madanjeet Singh was an Indian diplomat, painter, photographer, and writer.
Madanjeet Singh, Indian diplomat, author, and philanthropist (died 2013)
Kenneth Norman Jones was an Australian senior public servant.
Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant (died 2022)
Donald Richie was an American author, journalist, and film critic. He was known for writing about the Japanese people, the culture of Japan, and especially Japanese cinema. Althoug…
Donald Richie, American-Japanese author and critic (died 2013)
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He was best-known as a blues performer, but his music was often eclectic and also touche…
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005)
The Military Government of Santo Domingo was a provisional military government established during the American occupation of the Dominican Republic that lasted from May 15, 1916 to…
The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years
The Johor–Singapore Causeway is a 1.056-kilometre (0.66 mi) causeway across the Straits of Johor. The Causeway links Johor Bahru in Malaysia to Woodlands in Singapore. It is one of…
The Johor–Singapore Causeway opens after five years of construction, providing a land connection for road and rail vehic
Nina Foch was an American actress who later became a drama instructor. Her career spanned 6 decades, consisting of over 50 feature films and over 100 television credits. She was th…
Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (died 2008)
Leslie Samuel Phillips was an English actor. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. He app…
Leslie Phillips, English actor and producer (died 2022)