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| 1920 |
| | | The American novelist Sinclair Lewis has his first major success with Main Street, an unflattering portrayal of American village life | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give France responsibility for Syria and Lebanon | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1920 August 10 |
| | | The sultan of Turkey signs the Treaty of Sèvres with the Allies but it is rejected by the new nationalist government | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey | |
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| 1920 November 11 |
| | | The body of an unknown French soldier is laid to rest in a chapel within the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and a few weeks later is buried at ground level beneath the arch | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The schooner Bluenose begins a long series of international racing victories for Canada | |
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| 1921 |
| | | James Craig succeeds Edward Carson as leader of the Ulster Unionist party in northern Ireland | |
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| 1921 |
| | | An army officer, Reza Khan, becomes war minister after seizing control of Tehran with his Cossack brigade | |
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