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you know what? screw it

next turn year 1920

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1920 May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

May 7

Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza leaves Mexico City in a large train.

May 16

Canonization of Joan of Arc: Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated.

May 17

The first flight of Dutch air company KLM, from Amsterdam to London, takes place.

May 19 – Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City.

May 20 – Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza arrives in San Antonio Tlaxcalantongo; troops of Rodolfo Herrero attack him at night and shoot him.

May 24 – Venustiano Carranza is buried in Mexico City; all of his mourning allies are arrested. Adolfo de la Huerta is elected provisional president.

May 27 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk becomes president of Czechoslovakia.

May 29 – Floods at Louth, Lincolnshire in England kill 23.

June[edit] Main article: June 1920

June 13 Essad Pasha Toptani, nominal ruler of Albania, is assassinated by Avni Rustemi in Paris.

The United States Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.[10][11]

June 15

The Estonian Constituent Assembly adopts the first constitution of Estonia, which will come into effect on December 21 the same year.

June 22 – Greek Summer Offensive: Greece attacks Turkish troops.

July[edit] Main article: July 1920

July 7 – Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.

July 20 – The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

July 26 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes over Sabina and contacts Mexican President de la Huerta to offer his conditional surrender, which he signs on July 28.

July 29 – The United States Bureau of Reclamation begins construction of the Link River Dam, as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

July 30–August 8 – The 1st World Scout Jamboree is held at Olympia, London.[13] July 31

Irish-born Australian Catholic Bishop Daniel Mannix is detained on board ship off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.[14]

France prohibits the sale or prescription of contraceptives.

Representatives of British revolutionary socialist groups meet at the Cannon Street Hotel in London and agree to form the Communist Party of Great Britain.

August[edit] Main article: August 1920

August 3 – Irish War of Independence: Catholics riot in Belfast, in protest at the continuing British Army presence.

August 13 – Irish War of Independence: The Restoration of Order in Ireland Act (passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom) receives Royal Assent, providing for Irish Republican Army activists to be tried by court-martial, rather than by jury in criminal courts.[8]

The 1920 Summer Olympics open in Antwerp, Belgium.

August 20 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit. It is owned by the Detroit News, the first U.S. radio station owned by a newspaper.

August 26 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.