* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

Image by Ernest Wallcousins | E. Wallcousins in " Celtic Myth & Legend ", Charles Squire, 1920.

* Thomas A. Sebeok ( 1920 – 2001 ), a student of Charles W. Morris, was a prolific and wide-ranging American semiotician.

* June 21 – Battle of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands ( which later became part of Finland-in 1920 :) The Royal Navy seaman's mate Charles D. Lucas throws a live Russian artillery shell overboard by hand before it explodes, for which he was awarded the first Victoria Cross in 1857.

* September 17 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer ( d. 1920 )

The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the technique in 1920.

Charles Lapworth ( 20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920 ) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg, who launched his St. Louis-based company The Howdy Corporation in 1920.

* Charles Henry Robinson ( editor ), " The Life of Otto, Apostle of Pomerania, 1060-1139 ", New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.

Image by Ernest Wallcousins | E. Wallcousins in " Celtic Myth & Legend ", Charles Squire, 1920.

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* Air Marshal Sir Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings CB OBE DFC AFC and Bar, born in Walthamstow in 1920.

Charles Boyer ( 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978 ) was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.

* Charles G. Heckert ( 1903 – 1920 )

' Hana Maui Coast ', by Charles W. Bartlett ( 1920 ).

During the reign of the Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good ( 1419 – 1467 ) and Charles the Bold ( 1467 – 1477 ) Woerden enjoyed an unprecedented period of peace, and by 1477 its population had almost tripled to about 1920.

In October, 1920, Charles A. Lindbergh took several aerial photos of the area.

* Charles Briggs ( born 1920 ), jazz musician, and frontman of Charlie Briggs & the Brigadiers.

* Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 1920 – 1988 ), great-grandson of Lord Charles Pelham Pelham-Clinton, second son of the 4th Duke.

These include the Platnauer Concerts, established to honour the memory of Maurice Platnauer, Principal of Brasenose ( 1956 – 1960 ); termly Heberden Concerts, recently established to honour Charles Buller Heberden ( 1849 – 1921 ), Principal of Brasenose ( 1889 – 1920 ) and to showcase talented undergraduates and graduates of Oxford University ; the Principal's Concerts, established in 2009, for junior and senior members of Brasenose and other colleges to display their talents.

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His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

* Whitney, Robert W., State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920 – 1940, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

In 1918, Hopper was awarded the U. S. Shipping Board Prize for his war poster, “ Smash the Hun ,” and he was able to exhibit on three occasions: in 1917 with the Society of Independent Artists, in January 1920 ( a one-man exhibition at the Whitney Studio Club, which was the precursor to the Whitney Museum ), and in 1922 ( again with the Whitney Studio Club ).

Upon the artist's return to New York in March 1919, publishing scion George Palmer Putnam and others, including Juliana Force — assistant to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — implemented their avant-garde notion of incorporating the artist as " Rockwell Kent, Inc ." to support him in his new Vermont homestead while he completed his paintings from Alaska for exhibition in 1920 at Knoedler Galleries in New York.

* Whitney South Seas Expedition, scientific expedition to the South Pacific ( 1920 – 1932 )

In 1920 Charles Whitney Gilmore named Ornithomimus affinis for Dryosaurus grandis Lull 1911, based on indeterminate material.

Amos Whitney ( October 8, 1832 – August 5, 1920 ) was a mechanical engineer and Connecticut inventor.

Amos Whitney died in Portland, Maine in 1920.

Most of the land for Marine Park was donated to New York City to be turned into public park land by the Whitney family in 1920 and by Frederic B. Pratt and Alfred T. White, who jointly donated in 1917.

The type species, described by O. C. Marsh in 1884 and redescribed by Gilmore in 1920, is Ceratosaurus nasicornis.

Marsh ( 1884 ) considered the nasal horn of Ceratosaurus to be a " most powerful weapon " for both offensive and defensive purposes, and Gilmore ( 1920 ) concurred with this analysis.

* 1920 – Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

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In the aftermath of the White Army's final defeat in November 1920, the Bolsheviks initiated a military campaign against Makhno, which concluded with his escape across the Romanian border in August 1921.

Prout's hypothesis was an influence on Ernest Rutherford when he succeeded in " knocking " hydrogen nuclei out of nitrogen atoms with alpha particles in 1917, and thus concluded that perhaps the nuclei of all elements were made of such particles ( the hydrogen nucleus ), which in 1920 he suggested be named protons, from the suffix "- on " for particles, added to the stem of Prout's word " protyle.

In 1920, Drury created a Royal Commission, chaired by Robert Franklin Sutherland, which concluded that the popularity of automobiles had rendered Beck's proposal obsolete.

Soon after, the Memel territory which had been separated from Germany in 1920 and annexed by Lithuania was returned to Germany, under a German-Lithuanian treaty concluded on March 23, 1939.

The mission arrived in London in June 1920 and the agreement was concluded in August 1920.

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The Soviet – Lithuanian Peace Treaty was concluded on July 12, 1920.

After a two-front independence war fought against both Bolshevist Russian and Baltic German nationalist forces, the countries concluded peace and border treaties with Soviet Russia in 1920.

In 1920 Poland concluded a border dispute by the Treaty of Riga with the Soviet Union, thus, canceling the Treaty of Warsaw ( 1920 ).

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In 1920, he concluded a deal with the Sursuk family of Beirut for purchase of 60, 000 dunams ( 60 km² ) of land in the Jezreel Valley.

In this paper, Hubble concluded the " Great Debate " of 1920 between Heber Curtis and Shapley over the scale of the universe and the nature of the " spiral nebula ".