August 1920 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1920 Papendrecht soccer team forms
• 02 Aug 1920 Marcus Garvey presents his Back To Africa program in New York City
• 03 Aug 1920 Irish War of Independence: Catholics riot in Belfast.
• 08 Aug 1920 Tigers beat Yanks 1-0 in shortest AL game, 73 minutes
• 09 Aug 1920 Bulgarian and allied Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine goes into effect
• 10 Aug 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania
• 11 Aug 1920 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
• 13 Aug 1920 24th US Golf Open: Ted Ray shoots a 295 at Inverness Club in Ohio
• 14 Aug 1920 Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia andYugoslavia
• 15 Aug 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw : Poles defeat the Red Army.
• 16 Aug 1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
• 17 Aug 1920 In memory of Ray Chapman (died August 16), Yanks cancel game with Indians
• 18 Aug 1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond
• 19 Aug 1920 August 25 ampndash Second Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise up against the Germans.
• 20 Aug 1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League.
• 21 Aug 1920 3rd PGA Championship: Jock Hutchison at Flossmoor Country Club - Flossmoor, Illinois
• 25 Aug 1920 Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
• 26 Aug 1920 Percy Fender (Surrey vs. Northants) scores 100 in 35 minutes
• 31 Aug 1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions

Famous Birthday

• Charles Bukowski

  German-American writer who traveled throughout the U.S.

• Charlie Parker

  Known as "Yardbird" and "Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

• Charlie Parker

  Known as "Yardbird" and "Bird", was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

• Ray Bradbury

  American writer of sci-fi and fantasy, one of the best known and admired in the field.

• 1999 Izmit earthquake
• Maureen O'Hara

  Irish-American actress who was particularly popular in American movies of the 1940s and '50s.

• Louis Pauwels

  French journalist and writer (d. 1997).

• Shelley Winters

  American actress who received Oscars for "The Diary Of Anne Frank," 1959 and "A Patch Of Blue," 1965.

• Shelley Winters

  American actress who received Oscars for "The Diary Of Anne Frank," 1959 and "A Patch Of Blue," 1965.

• Jean Desailly
• Denton Cooley

  American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.

• André Bourguignon

  French physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for his work in France.

• Jean-Pierre Grédy
• P D James

  Mystery writer (Cover Her Face).

• Paul Bindrim

  American psychologist who broadened the convention of psychotherapy by conducting nude therapy groups in 1967.

• Ella Raines

  Actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66.

• René-Jean Chauffard
• Neville Brand

  American actor (d. 1992).

• Jean-Louis Jaubert

  French musician and singer, member of the group Compagnons de la Chanson, founded in 1944 in Lyon.

• Christopher Robin Milne

  inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996).

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Famous Deaths

• Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov

  Composer, dies at 54.

• J Norman Lockyer

  English physicist (discovered helium in Sun).

• Adam Politzer

  Hungarian-Austrian physician (Born 1835).

• Jens Oliver Lisberg

  Faroese law student (Born 1896).

• Wilhelm Wundt

  German naturalist, medical doctor, psychologist and philosopher known as "the father of modern psychology.

• Stefan Bastyr

  Polish aviator, author of the first military flight in independent Poland (Born 1890).

• Anders Zorn

  Swedish Painter (Gustavus Vasa), dies at 60.

• Ormer Locklear

  American pilot and actor (d. 1920).

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Indian nationalist leader (Born 1856).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Alexandria
2. Happy Six - My Sahara Rose
3. John McCormack - The Barefoot Trail
4. Marion Harris - Left All Alone Again Blues
5. Bert Williams - Ten Little Bottles