March 1920 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1920 Buriat ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
• 03 Mar 1920 Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating QuTbec Bulldogs.
• 04 Mar 1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece.
• 08 Mar 1920 Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations.
• 10 Mar 1920 The Baylor Business Men's Club changes its name to the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce. It has operated under this name since the change.
• 13 Mar 1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
• 15 Mar 1920 The Ruhr Red Army, a communist army 60,000 men strong, is formed in Germany.
• 16 Mar 1920 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park.
• 18 Mar 1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• 19 Mar 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 20 Mar 1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld.
• 22 Mar 1920 Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 23 Mar 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms.
• 25 Mar 1920 Greek Independence Day.
• 27 Mar 1920 Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed.
• 28 Mar 1920 Thomas Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia.
• 29 Mar 1920 Sir William Robertson, who enlisted in 1877, becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private.
• 31 Mar 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law.

Famous Birthday

• Boris Vian

  French writer, actor, engineer, jazz musician, artist, and essayist.

• Eric Rohmer

  French film critic who later made documentaries for French TV.

• Andrée Chedid

  French-Egyptian poet, journalist, and novelist of Lebanese descent, mother of Louis (singer) and Michèle, and Matthieu's grand-mother...

• Dorothea Binz

  Nazi war criminal (Born 1920).

• Simone Rozès
• Manik Chand Jain
• René Andrieu

  French Communist Resistance fighter, journalist and politician.

• Françoise d'Eaubonne
• Alene Bertha Duerk
• Sacha Pitoëff
• René Acht

  swiss artist, painter, sculptor and art teacher.

• Jean-Joël Barbier

  French writer and pianist, best known for his recording of the complete piano works of Erik Satie.

• Ross Martin

  Grodek, Poland -- Actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West).

• Jean Lecanuet

  French politician, senator, minister, senator & mayor of rouen for 25 yrs.

• Alan MacNaughton
• Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
• William Travilla

  American Oscar-winning Hollywood fashion designer.

• Marcial Maciel

  Mexican religious figure (Born 1920).

• James Doohan

  Canadian-American actor (d. 2005).

• François Villiers
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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Trumpeldor

  Killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack.

• John H Bankhead

  U.

• Julio Garavito Armero

  Colombian astronomer (Born 1865).

• William Chester Minor

  American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (Born 1834).

• Rafael Obligado Argentine writer (Santos Vega)

  dies at age 69.

• Venustiano Carranza President of Mexico (1915-20)

  murdered at age 60.

• Federigo Tozzi Ital writer/journalist (Torre

  Tre Croci), dies at age 37.

• Johan G Danser Dutch poet (Meetings)

  dies at age 26.

• Theodor Philipsen

  Danish painter (Born 1840).

• Evelina Haverfield

  Scottish nurse and activist (d. 1920).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Columbia Orchestra - William Tell Overture
2. All-Star Trio - Poor Little Butterfly is a Fly Gal Now
3. Al Jolson - I Gave Her That
4. Frances Alda - The Bells of St Mary's
5. George Meader - Wonderful Pal