Dates to Know:
January 6th- Babe Ruth on the Yankees
February 3, 1920 - The first performance of the play, Beyond the
Horizon, is held. The play by Eugene O'Neill would win the first of his four
Pulitzer Prizes.
June 1920-The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using
mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits by
October.
September 16, 1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon
explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 dead, 400
injured
September 17, 1920 - The American Professional Football League is
formed with Jim Thorpe as its president and eleven teams. It would
change its name to the National Football League in 1922.
League of Nations is established in Geneva by Woodrow Wilson
and other world leaders.
Birthdays:
January 6 – Early Wynn, baseball player (died 1999)
February 18 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (died 1990)
March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (died 2001)
April 6 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 26 – Peggy Lee, American singer (died 2002)
June 2 – Tex Schramm, American football executive (died 2003)
July 10 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 22 – Ray Bradbury, American writer (died 2012)
September 23 – Mickey Rooney, American film actor
October 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (died 2000)
November 30 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (died 2005)
December 6 – Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist and composer
Slang Created in 1920:
Balled up- confused, messed up
Beat it- get lost, scram
Bank's closed- no kissing
Big cheese- influential person
Cat's Meow- something splendid or stylish
Egg- a person who lives a rich life
On the lam- fleeing from police
Ossified- a drunk person
You slay me- that's funny