Top News Stories from 1920

World Events

• U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported.
• Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
• Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.
• Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.

U.S. Events

• Women's suffrage goes into effect following Tennessee's ratification of the 19th amendment (Aug. 26).
• Factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti are picked up by police (May 5) in connection with an April 15 murder and robbery in South Braintree, Mass.
• A bomb explodes in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 and injuring 200 (Sept. 16).

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast.
• Eugene O'Neill's first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, is produced on Broadway and wins a Pulitzer Prize marking the beginning of modern American drama.
• Rising popular interest in African-American literature sparks the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Speakeasies replace saloons as the center of social activity.

Science

• American chemist William Draper Harkins postulates the existence of a subatomic particle, the neutron, a heavy particle of no electric charge.
• The Smithsonian Institution announces Robert Goddard's work with rockets.

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