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Joseph J. Fern, Mayor of Honolulu from 1909 to 1915 and from 1917 to 1920 (born 1872) Robert Peary, Arctic explorer (born 1856) February 27 – William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida from 1901 to 1905 (born 1863) March 1 John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1907 to 1920 (born 1842)
1917–1919 – Silent Sentinels hold a vigil outside the White House gates in favor of women's suffrage, a nearly two–and–a–half year demonstration organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party; 1917–1920 – First Red Scare, marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism
1920s portal; History portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ... December 1920 events in the United States (4 P)
October 3: Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Foley announces the closure of the House Bank by the end of the year after revelations that House members have written numerous bad checks. October 5: Linus Torvalds launches the first version of the Linux kernel. October 30 – November 1: Madrid Conference of 1991.
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
1920s portal; History portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 0–9. ... December 1920 events in North America (2 C) C.
1920s: Finance. America's wealth more than doubled in the years between 1920 and '29. Most of this wealth funneled into finance and industry, but enough trickled down to low-level employees to let ...
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