* 1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( TBMM ) is founded in Ankara.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

Rube Foster, a former ballplayer, founded the Negro National League in 1920.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

Image: Claude Monet 044. jpg | Sea-Roses ( Yellow Nirwana ), 1920, The National Gallery, London

* 1920 – Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.

* 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / DAP German Workers Party, which was soon renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers Party ) or Nazi Party in Munich.

From 1920, the Va ' ad Leumi ( or Jewish National Council, or JNC ) was the main institution of the Jewish community (" Yishuv ") within the British Mandate of Palestine.

Members of a second Albanian National Assembly held at Lushnjë in January 1920 rejected the partition plan and warned that Albanians would take up arms to defend their country's independence and territorial integrity.

* 1920 – During the U. S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U. S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U. S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase " smoke-filled room ".

In 1920, Judge Landis was a leading candidate when American League and National League team owners, embarrassed by the Black Sox scandal and other instances of players throwing games, sought someone to rule over baseball.

The theory of guild socialism was developed and popularised by G. D. H. Cole who formed the National Guilds League in 1915 and published several books on guild socialism, including Self-Government in Industry ( 1917 ) and Guild Socialism Restated ( 1920 ).

* 1920 – The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Gandhi took leadership of Congress in 1920 and began a steady escalation of demands ( with Intermittent compromises or pauses ) until on 26 January 1930 the Indian National Congress declared the independence of India.

In 1920 the candidate of the German Party, Ernst Barczewski, was elected to the Sejm with 74. 6 percent of votes and to the Polish Senate with 34. 6 % of votes for the Bloc of National Minorities in 1928.

* 1920 – The American Professional Football Association ( later renamed National Football League ) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.

During the War of Independence, on May 3, 1920, Birinci Ferik Mustafa Fevzi Pasha ( Çakmak ) was appointed the Minister of National Defence, Mirliva İsmet Pasha ( İnönü ) was appointed the Minister of the Chief of General Staff of the government of GNA.

Marshall had his name entered as a candidate for the 1920 presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

But, Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky were nominated as candidates for the presidency at the 1920 Democratic National Convention and received " the first vote cast for a woman in the convention of either of the two great parties.

His conservatism, affable manner, and make-no-enemies campaign strategy made Harding the compromise choice at the 1920 Republican National Convention.

The administration of Warren G. Harding followed the Republican platform approved at the 1920 Republican National Convention, which was held in Chicago.

She covered the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association.

The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 and then re-established 1950 de facto at the Constitutive Convention in New York, de jure on September 10, 1951 when ten countries had become members.

Originally an independently-owned institution, the college was turned over to the Mississippi Baptist Convention in 1920 by the Lowrey Family.

Olympia Brown ’ s last march was at the 1920 Republican National Convention.

This minuscule, largely paper organization sent a fraternal delegate to the 2nd Convention of the United Communist Party, held at Kingston, New York from December 24, 1920 to January 2, 1921.

Robinson gained influence in the Senate and later served as Chairman of the 1920 Democratic National Convention.

His response to a guard who questioned his credentials at the 1920 Democratic National Convention was a punch in the face.

* Carrier, Jean-Baptiste, Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier: people's representative to the Convention during his mission in Brittany, 1793-1794, Nantes: John Lane Company, 1920, Google Books, downloadable eBook.

The Convention sponsors the Free Will Baptist Children's Home, Inc. in Middlesex, North Carolina ( established 1920 ), the Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, North Carolina ( chartered 1951 ), and operates the Free Will Baptist Press in Ayden.

Gutiérrez was appointed provisional President of Mexico by the Convention of Aguascalientes, a move that Venustiano Carranza ( 1859 – 1920 ) found intolerable.

He was Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1920 ; a delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944 ; and a member of Republican National Committee from Florida, 1940.

At the 1920 Republican National Convention that nominated Warren G. Harding for President, there was a movement to nominate Edge as candidate for Vice President.

The emergency conference was called in preparation for the Communist Unity Convention scheduled for 1 August 1920 in London.

In 1920 he was the campaign manager for Warren G. Harding for President of the United States at the Republican National Convention.

As an Ohio Republican party boss in 1920, Daugherty engineered Harding's ascendancy as the Republican Party presidential nominee at that year's Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Senator Lenroot attended the 1920 Republican National Convention at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, and after the selection of Harding as the GOP nominee for president, GOP leaders decided that the progressive Lenroot would be a balance to a ticket with the more conservative Harding.

As a Republican La Guardia had to support Harding in 1920 ; he had to be silent in the 1928 campaign although he favored Al Smith, a Democrat.

Hoover briefly considered becoming a Democrat, but he believed that 1920 would be a Republican year.

Lowden was defeated, but would later serve two terms in the office and be a major contender for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination.

* 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush-The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.

Roosevelt was popular enough to seriously contest the 1920 Republican nomination, but his health was broken by 1918, because of the lingering malaria.

** United States presidential election, 1920: Republican Warren G. Harding defeats Democrat James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U. S. election in which women have the right to vote.

In 1920, Reece won the Republican nomination for Tennessee's 1st Congressional District, based in the Tri-Cities region in the northeastern part of the state.

On 17 June 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) attacked the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) barracks in Cookstown.

On the night of Bloody Sunday in 1920, three Irish Republican Army members Dick McKee, Conor Clune and Peadar Clancy, were tortured and killed.

Lodge was also motivated by political concerns ; he strongly disliked President Wilson and was eager to find an issue for the Republican Party to run on in the presidential election of 1920.

While the Republican Oath was much mentioned in the Treaty debates of 1921-22, it had taken over a year to arrange to have the oath sworn by the Dáil TDs and IRA volunteers, between May 1919 and August 1920.

The Volunteers therefore changed their name, in August, to the Irish Republican Army, and swore allegiance in August 1920 to both the Republic and the Dáil.

In 1920, however, he did not attempt to revive the Progressive Party, but ran for President as a Republican.

Republican Automatons, 1920, in the collection of MOMA New York

Wood was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the election of 1920.

In events like the National Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1920, when the electric megaphone was first becoming popularized, women utilized these amplifying technologies during roll call of participants.

In the U. S. presidential election of 1920, the Republican Party returned to the White House with the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding, who promised a " return to normalcy " after the years of war, ethnic hatreds, race riots and exhausting reforms.

It followed the U. S. Senate's rejection of parts of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, based on the Lodge Reservations, and Republican Warren G. Harding's defeat of the League of Nations advocate and Democratic candidate, James M. Cox, in the 1920 presidential election.