* 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 )

The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.

In 1919 – 1921 the Red Army was also involved in the Polish-Soviet war, in which it reached central Poland in 1920, but then suffered a defeat there, which put an end to the war.

* Polish-Soviet war ( 1920 – 21 ).

In the summer of 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, Piasecki fought in the Battle of Radzymin.

On 11 July 1920, amidst the backdrop of the Polish-Soviet War, the East Prussian plebiscite in eastern West Prussia and southern East Prussia was held under Allied supervision to determine if the areas should join the Second Polish Republic or remain in Weimar Germany Province of East Prussia.

Podolia was briefly occupied in 1920 by Soviets during the course of the Polish-Soviet War.

The Polish-Soviet War ensued, culminating in the 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

In the wake of the First World War the town was affected by the Polish-Soviet War, being occupied by the Red Army in 1920 and taken over by the Polish Army in 1921.

To determine if the town would remain in Weimar Germany or join the Second Polish Republic, the East Prussian plebiscite was held in the town on 11 July 1920, at the height of the Polish-Soviet War and the prospect of a Soviet takeover of Poland.

Rowecki fought in the Polish-Soviet war ( 1919 – 1920 ).

The plebiscite took place as arranged on March 20, two days after the signing of the Treaty of Riga, on March 18, 1921, which ended the Polish-Soviet war of 1919 – 1920.

In August 1920, a German Newspaper in Upper Silesia printed what later turned out to be a false announcement of the fall of Warsaw to the Red Army in the Polish-Soviet war.

Beginning in the autumn of 1920 during Polish-Soviet war thousands of captured Red Army men were placed in the camp of Тuchola.

In 1920, the area was used as a conduit for arms and ammunition for the anti-Soviet Poles fighting in the Polish-Soviet War directly to the north, while local Communists sabotaged the trains and tried to help the Soviet side.

As a result the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 broke out with the Soviets claiming both Ukraine and Belarus, which they viewed as a part of the Russian Empire, currently under civil war.

Tukhachevsky commanded the Soviet invasion of Poland during the Polish-Soviet War in 1920, and was defeated by Józef Piłsudski outside Warsaw.

After local dockworkers had refused to unload ammunition supplies throughout the Polish-Soviet War in 1920, the Westerplatte peninsula ( until then a city beach ) was also given to Poland to build up an ammunition dump and a military post within the city's harbor.

Pinsk became part of Poland in 1920 after the Polish-Soviet War and was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939.

* Battle of Warsaw ( 1920 ), during the Polish-Soviet War

In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, he tried to join the Polish Army but was turned down as too old.

In 1920 Haller seized Pomerania and entered Danzig ( Gdańsk ) in the name of Poland, and during the Polish-Soviet War he commanded an army of volunteers.

Polish-Soviet War in 1920 | 1920 theater of war: farthest advances of Second Polish Republic | Polish and Ukrainian People's Republic Directorate of Ukraine | Directorate forces during the Kiev Offensive ( 1920 ) | Kiev Offensive