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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1920 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1920
MCMXX
Ab urbe condita2673
Armenian calendar1369
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԹ
Assyrian calendar6670
Baháʼí calendar76–77
Balinese saka calendar1841–1842
Bengali calendar1327
Berber calendar2870
British Regnal year10 Geo. 5 – 11 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2464
Burmese calendar1282
Byzantine calendar7428–7429
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
4617 or 4410
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4618 or 4411
Coptic calendar1636–1637
Discordian calendar3086
Ethiopian calendar1912–1913
Hebrew calendar5680–5681
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1976–1977
 - Shaka Samvat1841–1842
 - Kali Yuga5020–5021
Holocene calendar11920
Igbo calendar920–921
Iranian calendar1298–1299
Islamic calendar1338–1339
Japanese calendarTaishō 9
(大正9年)
Javanese calendar1850–1851
Juche calendar9
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4253
Minguo calendarROC 9
民國9年
Nanakshahi calendar452
Thai solar calendar2462–2463
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2046 or 1665 or 893
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
2047 or 1666 or 894

1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January

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January 17: Beginning of Prohibition in the United States

February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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1920 Summer Olympics

September

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October

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November

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December

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Haiyuan earthquake

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Isaac Asimov
John Maynard Smith
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Federico Fellini
DeForest Kelley
Sir Alf Ramsey

February

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Farouk of Egypt
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
Tony Randall

March

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James Doohan
Boris Vian
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Josip Manolić

April

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Toshiro Mifune
Richard von Weizsäcker

May

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Pope John Paul II
Peggy Lee

June

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José López Portillo
Zeno Colò

July

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Yul Brynner
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Émile Idée

August

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P. D. James
Maureen O'Hara
Shelley Winters
Ray Bradbury
Prem Tinsulanonda
Ali Sabri

September

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Chabuca Granda
Mickey Rooney

October

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Walter Matthau
Montgomery Clift
Melina Mercouri
Timothy Leary

November

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Esther Rolle
Gene Tierney
Stan Musial

December

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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Clark Terry

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Deaths

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January

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Saint Zygmunt Gorazdowski
Edmund Barton
Amedeo Modigliani

February

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Robert Peary

March

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Evelina Haverfield

April

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Srinivasa Ramanujan

May

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James Colosimo

June

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Essad Pasha
Max Weber

July

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August

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Ray Chapman

September

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Peter Carl Fabergé

October

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November

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Kevin Barry

December

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Nobel Prizes

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