May 1920 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1920 Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens.
• 02 May 1920 The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 03 May 1920 A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
• 05 May 1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev.
• 07 May 1920 Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Jozef Pi?sudski and Edward Rydz-Smig?y and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
• 08 May 1920 46th Kentucky Derby: Ted Rice aboard Paul Jones wins in 2:09.
• 15 May 1920 Russian Revolution: Russian White soldier Maria Bochkareva is executed in Soviet Russia.
• 16 May 1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull.
• 19 May 1920 Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City.
• 20 May 1920 Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
• 23 May 1920 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei.
• 24 May 1920 Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president.
• 26 May 1920 Anti-Soviet opposition in the Azerbaijan SSR launches an abortive revolt in Ganja.
• 27 May 1920 Tatar ASSR is established in Russian SFSR.
• 29 May 1920 The Great Louth Flood kills 23.

Famous Birthday

• Pope John Paul II
• Martine Carol

  French actress, popular, tantalizing leading lady of the '50s in several films made by her husband, (one of four), Christian Faque, but most...

• Michel Audiard

  French screenwriter, director, and novelist, he wrote the dialogue and scenarios for more than 50 films, including "Love and the Frenchwoman...

• Peggy Lee

  American singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist.

• François Marcantoni

  French gangster, member of the French resistance, bank robber and writer.

• Gaston Lenôtre
• Raymond Gérôme
• Jacques François

  French actor, who provided the French voice of Gregory Peck in dubbed films.

• Régis Charlet

  French ski champion.

• Lucia Mannucci

  Italian singer who, as the singer of light songs and part of a group of four, married one of the members.

• André Cailloux
• Andrée Debar

  French actress and producer, who died on 24 January 1999 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

• Carlo Coccioli

  Italian translator of ancient languages and an expert in theology.

• Michele Sindona

  Italian-American banker and adviser who took refuge in the U.S.

• Saul Bass

  American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996).

• Fort Worth (Texas)
• John Lewis (pianist)
• Richard Adams

  Author (Day Gone By).

• Anthony Steel (actor)
• Jacques Clancy

  French theatre and film actor, who was a member of the Comédie-Française.

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Famous Deaths

• William Dean Howells

  American writer (Born 1837).

• Svetozar Boroevic

  Austrian field marshal (Born 1856).

• John Wesley Hyatt inventor/plastics pioneer

  dies.

• Princess Margaret

  of Connaught (Born 1882).

• Levi P Morton

  22nd United States Vice President (Born 1824).

• Venustiano Carranza

  Mexican politician 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Art Hickman & His Orchestra - Rose Room
2. Nora Bayes - Oh How I Laugh When I Think That I Cried Over You
3. Al Jolson - Swanee (from Sinbad)
4. Edith Day - Irene
5. John McCormack - Your Eyes Have Told Me So