What Happened In March 1920 In History

Historical Events for March, 1920

• 8th » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
• 13th » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 19th » The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 22nd » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs Shushi Massacres known as attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 28th » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1920

• 1st » Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
• 2nd » Heinz-Ludwig Schmidt, German footballer and manager (d. 2008)
• 3rd » Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)
• 3rd » James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 3rd » Ronald Searle, English illustrator (d. 2011)
• 3rd » Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman known as Sydney Templeman, British judge
• 4th » Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
• 4th » Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
• 5th » José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
• 5th » Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
• 5th » Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (d. 2012)
• 6th » Olive Dickason, Canadian historian (d. 2011)
• 6th » Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 7th » Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (d. 2012)
• 8th » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright (d. 1985)
• 9th » Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (d. 2008)
• 10th » Boris Vian, French author and playwright (d. 1959)
• 11th » Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate
• 12th » Ray Still, American oboe player (d. 2014)
• 13th » Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast Communications
• 14th » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 15th » Lawrence Sanders, American author (d. 1998)
• 15th » E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 16th » John Addison, English-American composer (d. 1998)
• 16th » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (d. 1947)
• 16th » Sid Fleischman, American author (d. 2010)
• 16th » Traudl Junge, German secretary and journalist (d. 2002)
• 16th » Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002)
• 17th » John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 17th » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
• 19th » Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
• 19th » Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
• 19th » Paul Hagen, Danish actor (d. 2003)
• 19th » Laurent Noël, Canadian bishop
• 20th » Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
• 20th » Vickie Panos, Canadian baseball player
• 20th » Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 21st » Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1970)
• 21st » Georg Ots, Estonian opera singer (d. 1975)
• 22nd » James Brown (actor) known as James Brown, American actor (d. 1992)
• 22nd » Werner Klemperer, German-American actor and singer (d. 2000)
• 22nd » Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
• 22nd » Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (d. 1995)
• 22nd » Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition
• 23rd » Neal Edward Smith, American pilot and politician
• 23rd » Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 24th » Bill Irwin (skier) known as Bill Irwin, Canadian skier (d. 2013)
• 24th » Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 24th » Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)
• 25th » Paul Scott (novelist) e.g Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1978)
• 25th » Patrick Troughton, English actor (d. 1987)
• 25th » Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
• 26th » Sergio Livingstone, Chilean footballer and journalist (d. 2012)
• 27th » William C. Conner, American judge (d. 2009)
• 27th » Richard Hayman, American harmonica player, conductor, and composer (d. 2014)
• 27th » Robin Jacques, English illustrator (d. 1995)
• 27th » Wallace McIntosh, Scottish lieutenant and pilot (d. 2007)
• 27th » Colin Rowe, English-American historian, theorist, and academic (d. 1999)
• 27th » Joe Tuminelli, American baseball player (d. 1980)
• 29th » John M. Belk, American businessman and politician (d. 2007)
• 29th » Clarke Fraser, American-Canadian geneticist and academic
• 29th » Pierre Moinot, French author (d. 2007)
• 29th » Theodore Trautwein, American judge (d. 2000)
• 31st » Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 2014)
• 31st » Paul Zorner, German soldier and pilot (d. 2014)

Famous Deaths for March 1920

• 1st » John H. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1842)
• 1st » Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier and activist (b. 1880)
• 3rd » Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
• 7th » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
• 11th » Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
• 21st » Evelina Haverfield Scottish nurse and activist (b. 1867)
• 26th » William Chester Minor, Sri Lankan-American surgeon (b. 1834)

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