* 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist ( d. 1920 )

* 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate

* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts.

* 1920 – Peru becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

* 1920 – Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver ( d. 1994 )

* 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress ( d. 1988 )

* 1867 – Evelina Haverfield English activist ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1920 – Francis Lynch, American politician ( d. 1993 )

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

* 1920 – Neville Brand, American actor ( d. 1992 )

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

The Ashes resumed after the war when England toured in 1946 – 47, and as in 1920 – 21, found that Australia had made the best post-war recovery.

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist

* 1920 – Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player ( d. 1971 )

Authorities accepted his alibi for the robbery, as he was able to produce a timecard showing he was at work on April 15, 1920.

On 23 January 1920, a confrontation over boycott activities in Tianjin led to the arrest of a number of people, including several Awakening Society members, and on 29 January Zhou led a march on the Governor's Office in Tianjin to present a petition calling for the arrestees ' release.

In 1920, 10 years from his arrest, the regulations were confirmed useless by the House of Peers and abolished.

After suffering military defeat and the arrest of many of its central members, the group reconstituted itself in exile by late 1920.

Following the arrest of suspected communist radicals in 1919 and 1920 during the Palmer raids, Frankfurter, together with other prominent lawyers including Zechariah Chafee, signed an ACLU report which condemned the " utterly illegal acts committed by those charged with the highest duty of enforcing the laws " including entrapment, police brutality, prolonged incommunicado detention, and violations of due process in court.

Returned to Portugal in January 1918 and was put under house arrest during the dictatorship of Sidónio Pais ; returned to diplomacy after the fall of Sidonist regime ; became minister to Spain ( 1919 ) and then again to the United Kingdom ( 1919 – 1923 ); a member of the Portuguese Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference ( 1919 – 1920 ); unsuccessful candidate of the Democratic Party ( Partido Democrático ) at the presidential elections of 6 Aug 1919 won by António José de Almeida ; delegate to the League of Nations, serving as Vice-President of the General Assembly ( 6 Sep 1922-30 Sep 1922 ); was elected in-absentia President of the Republic ( 6 Aug 1923 ), arriving at the port of Lisbon on 3 Oct 1923.

W. C. Bridgeman, the Home Secretary, said that he had directly ordered the police to arrest the ISDL members under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920, and that he had consulted the Attorney General who considered it perfectly legal.

In 1920, after the staged mutiny of Lucjan Żeligowski, Lithuanian cultural activities in Polish controlled territories were limited and the closure of Lithuanian newspapers and the arrest of their editors occurred.

Mugshots of O ' Malley under arrest in Dublin Castle, 1920.

The alleged crime and arrest took place on January 17, 1920, which meant that the amendment was in force at the time.

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco ( April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927 ) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ( June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927 ) were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.

Braintree is the site of the infamous 1920 murders that led to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of the murders of Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company factory, on Pearl Street in Braintree, Massachusetts, during the afternoon of April 15, 1920.

On May 5, 1920, Sacco and Vanzetti along with two other men appeared at a garage in Brockton, Massachusetts to pick up a car that police believed might have been used in the robberies.

On May 5, 1920 Mario Buda arrived at the garage with three other men, later identified as Sacco, Vanzetti and Riccardo Orciani.

* Webster Thayer 1876, Massachusetts judge, presided over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1920.

* Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial ( 1920 – 1927 )

In 1920 two Italian immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti, were tried for robbery and murder.

Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of killing Frederick Parmenter, a shoe factory paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of $ 15, 766. 51 from the factory's payroll on April 15, 1920.

A founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) in 1920, Flynn was active in the campaign against the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.