WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1920
Find out what all happened January to September 1920

France captures Damascus. (25. July 1920)

In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. (16. May 1920)

The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. (10. January 1920)

Battle of Warsaw so called Miracle at the Vistula. (15. August 1920)

The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. (13. March 1920)

Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later. (7. May 1920)

The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, receives its première in Berlin. (26. February 1920)

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations. (1. February 1920)

A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark. (15. June 1920)

Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów. (31. August 1920)

The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution. (16. August 1920)

In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. (11. July 1920)

Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place. (25. July 1920)

Duluth lynchings in Minnesota. (15. June 1920)

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. (23. April 1920)

At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East. (25. April 1920)

The national council in Turkey denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces a temporary constitution. (23. April 1920)

The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. (15. July 1920)

Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later. (7. May 1920)

Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer. (26. January 1920)

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