February 1920 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1920 Soccer team Quick Boys forms.
• 02 Feb 1920 Tarto / Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
• 06 Feb 1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations.
• 07 Feb 1920 Admiral Kolchak and Viktor Pepelyayev are executed by firing squad near Irkutsk.
• 09 Feb 1920 Joint Rules Commission bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs.
• 10 Feb 1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball.
• 13 Feb 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.
• 14 Feb 1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
• 17 Feb 1920 A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.
• 19 Feb 1920 Netherlands joins League of Nations.
• 20 Feb 1920 An earthquake hits Gori Georgia, killing 114.
• 21 Feb 1920 The island province of Marinduque in the Philippines archipelago is founded.
• 22 Feb 1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
• 24 Feb 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence.
• 26 Feb 1920 The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, premiered in Berlin.

Famous Birthday

• Michèle Morgan

  French actress who won acclaim by the age of 18 for the film "Quai Des Brumes," one year after her debut in French films.

• Farouk of Egypt
• René Guy Cadou
• Zao Wou-Ki
• Sun Myung Moon
• Guy Desnoyers

  French parish priest from Uruffe who killed his pregnant mistress after having made her pregnant.

• Jean Charon

  French physicist, atomist and well-known cosmologist.

• Louis Féraud

  French fashion designer and artist.

• Karl Albrecht

  German businessman co-founded Aldi (d. 2014).

• Jacques Charon

  Paris 4éme Actor.

• Tony Randall

  American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the nitpicking Felix Unger in "The Odd Couple, a TV series that ran from 1970-1975.

• Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola
• Pierre Paul Hueber
• André Sallée

  French humorist artist.

• Jacques Royal
• Benyoussef Benkhedda
• Daniel James Jr
• Stan Ockers

  Belgian world champ cyclist (1955), dies at 36.

• Roger Rocher

  French sports executive, the owner of the St Étienne soccer team.

• Gerardo Guerrieri

  Italian theater and TV producer.

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Famous Deaths

• Jacinta Marto

  witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (Born 1910).

• Alexander Koltsjak

  Admiral / leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed.

• Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak

  Russian military commander (Born 1874).

• Richard Dehmel writer

  dies at age 56.

• Emile Sauret composer

  dies at age 67.

• Jean Allemane French socialist/communard (allemanisten)

  dies at age 77.

• Aloys

  Liechtenstein nobleman / politician, dies at 73.

• Ludwig Rubiner writer

  dies at age 38.

• Alexandru D Xenopol Romanian historian

  dies at age 72.

• Ernie Courtney

  American baseball player (Born 1875).

• Robert Peary

  American Admiral, engineer and scientist.

• Aurore Gagnon

  French Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920).

• Robert E Peary US pole explorer (North Pole

  6/4/1909), dies at age 63.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Eddy Brown - That Naughty Waltz
2. Irving Kaufman - You'd be Surprised
3. Al Jolson - Tell Me
4. Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) - Invitation to the Waltz
5. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Yellow Dog Blues