October 1920 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1920 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
• 02 Oct 1920 Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
• 03 Oct 1920 Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
• 09 Oct 1920 1st World Series game in Cleveland, Indians win 2-1
• 10 Oct 1920 1st Grandslam in WS (Smith) and 1st unassisted triple play (Wambsganss)
• 12 Oct 1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
• 13 Oct 1920 World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
• 14 Oct 1920 Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
• 17 Oct 1920 Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play first NFL game, win 7-0.
• 18 Oct 1920 Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London 50 are injured.
• 20 Oct 1920 1st Year with Frank Craven premieres in New York City
• 23 Oct 1920 Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
• 25 Oct 1920 After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
• 26 Oct 1920 Álvaro Obregón is announced the elected president of Mexico.
• 27 Oct 1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva.
• 29 Oct 1920 Ed Barrow appointed GM of New York Yankees
• 30 Oct 1920 The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
• 31 Oct 1920 Romania annexes Bessarabia

Famous Birthday

• Montgomery Clift

  Movie actor (From Here to Eternity).

• Montgomery Clift

  Movie actor (From Here to Eternity).

• Timothy Leary

  American professor, guru of the 1960's drug culture who coined the phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out.

• Melina Mercouri

  Greek actress singer and politician 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994).

• Melina Mercouri

  Greek actress singer and politician 9th Greek Minister of Culture (d. 1994).

• Père Michel Jaouen
• Helmut Newton

  German-born photographer, known for his fashion photography of nude women and his portrayal, usually in black and white, of sexuality.

• Walter Matthau

  American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon,...

• Frank Herbert

  American writer, a reporter and editor for a west coast newspaper and a prolific author of sci-fi, most notably the Dune series.

• Chu Teh-Chun
• Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz
• Jacques Birr
• Roger Lanzac

  French TV and radio host, singer and actor, who died on 25 November 1996 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France.

• Henri Verneuil

  Turkish-French director producer and screenwriter (d. 2002).

• Nanette Fabray

  American actress, comedienne and singer.

• Jean Royer

  French politician, mayor of Tours, France.

• Mario Puzo

  American author and screenwriter (d. 1999).

• LaWanda Page

  American actress (d. 2002).

• Heinz Barth
• Kocheril Raman Narayanan
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Famous Deaths

• Johann Ernst Perabo

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Yu Gwan-sun

  Korean independence leader (Born 1904).

• Alexander

  King of Greece (1917-20), dies after ape bite at 27.

• Max Bruch

  German composer and conductor who studied at Cologne Conservatory, and, from 1858-1861, taught music in Cologne, where he wrote the opera...

• Terence MacSwiney

  Irish author playwright and politician Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920).

• Alphonse Desjardins

  Canadian journalist and businessman co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John McCormack - When Night Descends
2. Art Hickman & His Orchestra - The Love Nest
3. Van & Schenck - After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It
4. Prince's Orchestra - Manyana
5. Eddie Cantor - Snoops, the Lawyer