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| 1919 |
| | | To President Wilson's profound disappointment the US Congress, by failing to ratify the treaty of Versailles, opts out of the League of Nations | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Prohibition comes into effect in the USA, three months after the Volstead Act has provided guidelines for enforcement | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The US steel strike collapses after four months, with nothing achieved | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A right-wing military putsch seizes power for a few days in Berlin | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Ezra Pound publishes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, a poem that reflects on the practice of poetry itself | |
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| 1920 |
| | | After several less successful novels, the French writer Colette makes her reputation with Chéri | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Marie Rambert, a Polish dancer with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Edith Wharton publishes her best-known novel, The Age of Innocence | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A national congress in Damascus proclaims Faisal king of an independent Syria | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Bristol-born actor Cary Grant moves to the USA with a troupe of touring tumblers | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Destour is formed as a nationalist party in Tunisia, demanding full independence from France | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England | |
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1920 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Meccano company launches the first of its Hornby model trains | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The publication of Scott FitzGerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, brings him instant success | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees women the right to vote | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart work together as Columbia University students, creating the musical Fly With Me | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Communist uprising in the Ruhr is suppressed with difficulty by the German army | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The German Workers' Party, with Adolf Hitler as one of its leading members, changes its name to the Nazi party | |
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| 1920 |
| | | French intervention in Syria forces Faisal off the throne and out of the country | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau | |
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