Famous Births
Famous Deaths
Top Grossing Films
- Way Down East
- Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
- Shipwrecked Among Cannibals IMBD: Top Grossing Films of 1920
Olympics
Championship Teams
Nobel Laureates
- Peace: Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
- Physics: Charles Edouard Guillaume
- Chemistry: Walther Hermann Nernst
- Medicine: Schack August Steenberg Krogh
- Literature: Knut Pedersen Hamsun NoblePrize.org: 1920 Noble Winners
1920 Timeline
January 1920
- January 5: The New York Yankees announce that they have purchased Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for a total of $125,000.
February 1920
- February 1: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established in Canada.
August 1920
- August 26: The Women's Suffrage Movement is victorious in America after the 19th Amendment of the Constitution is put into effect, guaranteeing women the right to vote.