* 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class " A " League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

At the left, the Sillon industriel, which runs from Mons in the west, to Verviers in the east ( except part of North Flanders, in another period of the industrial revolution, after 1920 ).

At the trial, Trotsky delivered some of the best speeches of his life and solidified his reputation as an effective public speaker, which he confirmed in 1917 – 1920.

At the end of Estonian War of Independence following World War I, a peace treaty between the Bolsheviks and Estonia was signed on 2 February 1920 in Tartu.

At a Cabinet meeting in April 1920, Palmer called on Secretary of Labor Wilson to fire Post and Wilson defended him.

At the urging of his wife, Ponzi pleaded guilty on November 1, 1920 to a single count before Judge Clarence Hale, who declared before sentencing, " Here was a man with all the duties of seeking large money.

At the San Remo conference of April 1920, the French were granted a mandate over Syria and the British were granted one over Palestine and Mesopotamia.

At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium ( see German-Speaking Community of Belgium ).

At the same time that he was carrying on his war, Zaharoff was also involved in two more significant financial ventures in October 1920, he became involved in the incorporation of a company that was a predecessor to oil giant, British Petroleum.

At the age of 16, Remarque had made his first attempts at writing ; this included essays, poems, and the beginnings of a novel that was finished later and published in 1920 as The Dream Room ( Die Traumbude ).

Its products had always been referred to by the name ' Bristol ' and this was formalized in 1920, when British and Colonial was liquidated and its assets became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. At this time the Company, acting under a certain amount of pressure from the Air Ministry, bought the aero-engine division of the bankrupt Cosmos Engineering Company, also of Bristol, to form the nucleus of its new aero-engine operations.

At Degesch, Ferdinand Flury developed Zyklon A in 1920.

At 24 years of age, Mao Dun was already renowned as a novelist by the community in general, and in 1920, he and a group of young writers took over the magazine Xiaoshuo Yuebao ( 小说月报 ), which translated means " fiction monthly ", to publish literature by western authors, such as Tolstoy, Chekhov, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Byron, Keats, Shaw, etc., and make new theories of literature better known.

( At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, one sailing event had been held in Dutch waters because of water quality ).

At the beginning the girls ’ school was situated there and later, between 1920 and 1930, it was the location of the first Naval School in Poland which was later moved to Gdynia.

At the 1920 census the county population was over 60, 000, and until the 1950 census, Silver Bow was the most populous county in the state.

At the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, there is a 1920 painting by artist Thomas Hart Benton called " People of Chilmark ".

At its peak in 1920, the population of Pittston was 18, 497.

At the time that it was incorporated, the township was about and included what are now known as the boroughs of Tatamy ( which became incorporated in 1893 ), West Easton ( incorporated in 1898 ), Stockertown ( incorporated in 1901 ) and Wilson ( incorporated in 1920 ).

At the onset of Prohibition in 1920, the demand for illegally-distilled liquor skyrocketed, and Cocke County was primed to meet it.

At the census of 1920, the burgeoning community reported 1, 000 residents, but the effects of the Great Depression brought prosperity to a halt and by 1960 there were fewer than 500 people living in Gordon.

At some point, before 1920 or so, the " Oh day of terror " section had the parts for Kate and Phoebe significantly reduced.

" At the Three Choirs Festival of 1920 he took part in his first Dream of Gerontius, under Elgar's baton, in the LSO cellos.

At Cabinet on 5 May 1920 Curzon “ by a long-winded jaw ” ( in Wilson's description ) argued for a stay in Batum.

At the 1920 and 1921 meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, proposals which Lewis encouraged urged the creation of an " institute of law " to elucidate the progress of the common law.

At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

At that point, on the day of the Summer Solstice, the vertical rod of the gnōmōn casts a shadow extending in theory to the horizon over 360 ° as the sun does not set.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics, Nurmi recaptured the 10, 000 m title but was beaten to the gold in the 5, 000 m and the 3, 000 m steeplechase.

At the age of 15, Nurmi rekindled his interest in athletics after being inspired by the performances of Hannes Kolehmainen, who was said to " have run Finland onto the map of the world " at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

* 1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

At the same time, however, Adorno renewed his musical work: with talks at the Kranichsteiner Musikgesellschaft, another in connection with a production of Ernst Krenek ’ s opera Leben des Orest, and a seminar on “ Criteria of New Music ” at the Fifth International Summer Course for New Music at Kranichstein.

At the invitation of Wolfgang Steinecke, Adorno took part in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in Kranichstein from 1951 to 1958.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, seven of these events were for men while only three were for women.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics, the nations that were part of the Unified Team started to make their Olympic debuts.

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome she won three Olympic titles: the 100 m, 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for the first time at an international athletics event, the guides will receive medals, such as the pilots in cycling, and the guides at the Paralympic Winter Games have done for a while.

At the 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics, Marathon was the starting point of the marathon races ( for both women and men in 2004 ).

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens the Colosseum was replaced by a depiction of the Panathinaiko Stadium

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, it hosted the rowing, swimming, and water polo events.

At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Pickering commentated on a race involving Cuban double-gold medallist Alberto Juantorena, whose muscular build and nine-foot stride contributed to his nickname El Caballo ( the horse ).

He never made a full comeback .. At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 metre event.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, one wrestling event was contested.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two weightlifting events were contested ( men's one hand lift and two hand lift ).

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, two tennis events were contested, both for men.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, four swimming events were contested, all for men.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, five sport shooting events were contested.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events, all for men, were contested in Panathinaiko Stadium.

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, three fencing events were contested at the Zappeion.