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John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland
Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems
The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany
The Versailles Treaty makes Danzig (or Gdansk) a free city (from 10 January 1920), under the protection of the League of Nations
The brutal behaviour of the British police reinforcements, the Black and Tans, aggravates the violence in Ireland
Warren Harding wins the US presidential election for the Republicans
League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine
Abdullah ibn Hussein, of the Hashemite family, becomes emir of the new province of Transjordan
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber
Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie is performed in New York
Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI
Marina Tsvetaeva completes an anti-Soviet cycle of poems, The Encampment of the Swans
The League of Nations introduces the Nansen Passport for stateless persons
Sinclair Lewis creates an archetypal character in George Folanshee Babbitt, a real-estate broker in the midwestern town of Zenith
British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin'
At a congress in Moscow four soviet republics (Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Republic) agree to unite
France, with Belgian support, occupies Germany's industrial heartland in the Ruhr
In I and Thou the Austrian theologian Martin Buber interprets religion in terms of the subjective experience of interpersonal relationships
US dramatist Elmer Rice establishes his reputation with The Adding Machine, an expressionistic drama about the machine age
Vegemite is launched in Melbourne as Australia's answer to Marmite
Rudolf Hess suggests to Hitler the policy of Lebensraum or 'living space' for the German people
Benito Mussolini arrests opposition politicians, takes control of the press and assumes dictatorial powers in Italy
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, in Chicago, forms the Hot Five with his wife on piano and three New Orleans musicians on trombone, clarinet and guitar
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
Orleans House is demolished to allow for gravel extraction. The Octagon and stables are bought by the Hon Mrs Nellie Ionides and saved from demolition.
