WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1920
Find out what all happened June to December 1920

First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland. (15. November 1920)

Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. (12. November 1920)

Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. (7. November 1920)

The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney. (30. October 1920)

Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq. (1. October 1920)

The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed. Soviet Russia recognizes independent Lithuania. (12. July 1920)

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

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

Polish–Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated. (13. August 1920)

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

The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. (20. August 1920)

King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite. (19. December 1920)

The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote. (26. August 1920)

Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush – The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen. (28. November 1920)

Duluth lynchings in Minnesota. (15. June 1920)

Foundation of the Spanish Legion. (20. September 1920)

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

The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan. (31. August 1920)

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

The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. (1. September 1920)

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