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Explore January 17, 1920 – December 5, 1933

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Events

Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30
Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920
Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11
Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05
Kiev offensive (1920) 1920-04-24 - 1920-06-13
Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18
Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19
Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12
Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17
First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11
Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18
Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31
Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24
Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13
Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06
Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06
Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24
Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30
Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Treaty of Lausanne 1923-07-24
1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01
Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey 1923-10-29
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin 1924-01-21 - 1924-01-27
Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate 1924-03-03
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Locarno Treaties 1925-12-01
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07
Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27
Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28
First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Wall Street Crash of 1929 1929-10-24 - 1929-10-29
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Salt March 1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
1930 FIFA World Cup 1930-07-13 - 1930-07-30
Encirclement Campaigns 1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
1931 China floods 1931-06 - 1931-08
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Mukden Incident 1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Statute of Westminster 1931 1931-12-11
Holodomor 1932 - 1933
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power 1933-01-30
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
New Deal 1933-03-09 - 1939
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23

People

Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham age 47
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John G. Sargent age 59
Attorney General - United States
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William D. Mitchell age 45
Attorney General - United States
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Polk age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Pelot Summerall age 52
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Laming Worthington-Evans age 51
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward Shortt age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
John L. Hines age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Austen Chamberlain age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 25
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Sun Yat-sen age 53
Chairman - Kuomintang
Heinrich Himmler age 19
Reichsleiter - Nazi Party
Clement Attlee age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 67
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Oswald Mosley age 23
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William R. Day age 70
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 76
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel age 53
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes age 40
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 48
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Graham age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Donald Maclean age 56
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
J. C. C. Davidson age 30
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Sutherland age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Adamson age 56
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Lansbury age 60
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Sefako Makgatho age 59
President - African National Congress
Zacharias Richard Mahabane age 38
President - African National Congress
Josiah Tshangana Gumede age 52
President - African National Congress
Pixley ka Isaka Seme age 39
President - African National Congress
John J. O'Kelly age 47
President - Sinn Féin
Brian O'Higgins age 37
President - Sinn Féin
Michael O'Flanagan age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Charles Evans Hughes Jr. age 30
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. age 32
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Henry L. Roosevelt age 40
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 42
Senate - United States
James F. Byrnes age 37
Senate - United States
Philander C. Knox age 66
Senate - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 56
Senate - United States
Anthony Eden age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Balfour age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stafford Cripps age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Seán T. O'Kelly age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Fred M. Vinson age 30
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Carson age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duff Cooper age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Eric Geddes age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 2
House of Representatives - United States
Manny Shinwell age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 24
House of Representatives - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Barnes age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Arthur Griffith age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Townshend age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Aylmer Hunter-Weston age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Al Smith age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Miriam A. Ferguson age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
James M. Cox age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard Russell Jr. age 22
Governor of Georgia - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 41
Governor of New York - United States
Harry F. Byrd age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Rolph age 50
Governor of California - United States
C. C. Young age 50
Governor of California - United States
John Garland Pollard age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Friend Richardson age 54
Governor of California - United States
William Stephens age 60
Governor of California - United States
Charles Hillman Brough age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Albert Ritchie age 43
Governor of Maryland - United States
Thomas C. McRae age 68
Governor of Arkansas - United States
George White (Ohio politician) age 47
Governor of Ohio - United States
William P. Hobby age 41
Governor of Texas - United States
Edward I. Edwards age 56
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Ross S. Sterling age 44
Governor of Texas - United States
Dan Moody age 26
Governor of Texas - United States
John Ellis Martineau age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Channing H. Cox age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Alvan T. Fuller age 41
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Westmoreland Davis age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
A. Harry Moore age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Vic Donahey age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
E. Lee Trinkle age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Pat Morris Neff age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Frank G. Allen age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Tom Terral age 37
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Junius Marion Futrell age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Joseph B. Ely age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Harvey Parnell age 39
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Harry L. Davis age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Emmett Forest Branch age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Nathan L. Miller age 51
Governor of New York - United States
Alfred A. Taylor age 71
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Paul V. McNutt age 28
Governor of Indiana - United States
Edward L. Jackson age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
James P. Goodrich age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Hill McAlister age 44
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Myers Y. Cooper age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Harry G. Leslie age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
George Sebastian Silzer age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Warren T. McCray age 54
Governor of Indiana - United States
Clarence E. Case age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Morgan Foster Larson age 37
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Christian Herter age 24
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
Barber Conable born 1922-11-02
New York State Senate - United States
Mahatma Gandhi age 50
President - Indian National Congress
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk age 39
President - Turkey
Jawaharlal Nehru age 30
President - Indian National Congress
Pius XI age 62
Pope - Vatican City
Benedict XV age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Hermann Göring age 27
President of the Reichstag - Germany
Ibn Saud age 44
King - Saudi Arabia
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 44
President - Indian National Congress
Alfonso XIII age 33
King - Spain
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 39
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 47
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 61
King - Sweden
Christian X of Denmark age 49
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania born 1921-10-25
King - Kingdom of Romania
Zog I of Albania age 24
President - Albania
Rafael Trujillo age 28
President - Dominican Republic
Ferdinand I of Romania age 54
King - Kingdom of Romania
Prajadhipok age 26
King - Thailand
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 55
President - Finland
Mohammed V of Morocco age 10
Sultan - Morocco
Vajiravudh age 39
King - Thailand
Antanas Smetona age 45
President - Lithuania
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud age 58
President - Finland
Hipólito Yrigoyen age 69
President - Argentina
Gabriel Narutowicz age 54
President - Poland
Carol II of Romania age 26
King - Kingdom of Romania
Lauri Kristian Relander age 36
President - Finland
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 23
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 20
King - Eswatini
Ignacy Mościcki age 52
President - Poland
Jānis Čakste age 60
President - Latvia
Albert I, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Ugyen Wangchuck age 57
King - Bhutan
Karl Seitz age 50
President - Austria
Michael Hainisch age 61
President - Austria
Kazys Grinius age 53
President - Lithuania
Óscar Carmona age 50
President - Portugal
Arturo Alessandri age 51
President - Chile
Aleksandras Stulginskis age 34
President - Lithuania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 9
Sultan - Oman
Juan Vicente Gómez age 62
President - Venezuela
William, Prince of Albania age 43
King - Albania
Jigme Wangchuck age 15
King - Bhutan
Stanisław Wojciechowski age 50
President - Poland
Alexandros Zaimis age 64
President - Greece
Bernardino Machado age 68
President - Portugal
José Félix Uriburu age 51
President - Argentina
Agustín Pedro Justo age 43
President - Argentina
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 37
President - El Salvador
Yusef of Morocco age 38
Sultan - Morocco
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear age 51
President - Argentina
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 42
President - Chile
Gustavs Zemgals age 48
President - Latvia
Alberts Kviesis age 38
President - Latvia
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 19
Queen - Tonga
Sisowath Monivong age 44
King - Cambodia
Manuel Gomes da Costa age 57
President - Portugal
Augusto Leguía age 56
President - Peru
Theodoros Pangalos age 42
President - Greece
Charles D. B. King age 44
President - Liberia
José Mendes Cabeçadas age 36
President - Portugal