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September[edit] Main article: September 1920 September 5 – Presidential elections begin in Mexico.

September 8 – Gabriele D'Annunzio proclaims the Italian Regency of Carnaro, in the city of Fiume.

September 16 – Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 and injuring 400.

September 17 – The National Football League is established, as the American Professional Football Association.

September 20 – The first soldier joins El Tercio de Extranjeros, (the "Regiment of Foreigners", later the Spanish Legion). Under the command of José Millán Astray and Francisco Franco, its first duties are against Rif rebels, in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.

September 21 – The Communist Party of Uruguay is founded.

September 22 – The London Metropolitan Police forms the Flying Squad, a motorised mobile detective patrol unit.

September 29 The first domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States; a Westinghouse radio costs $10.

Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance in Austria, with speeches in Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg.

October[edit] Main article: October 1920 October 3 – The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe horse race first runs in Paris.

October 18 – Thousands of unemployed demonstrate in London; 50 are injured.

October 26 – Álvaro Obregón is announced the elected president of Mexico.

October 27

Baron Louis De Geer the Younger becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden.

October 30 – The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.

October 31 – Dr. Frederick Banting of Canada first records his insight on how to isolate insulin for the treatment of diabetes; the first successful human trial of insulin will occur 15 months later.

November[edit] Main article: November 1920 November 2 1920 United States presidential election: Republican U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding defeats Democratic Governor of Ohio James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.

In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the results of the presidential election. Meiji Shrine, one of many landmark spots in Tokyo, is officially built in Japan.[16]

November 11 – The Unknown Warrior is buried in Westminster Abbey.

November 14 – The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra holds its first concert.

November 16 – Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services (Qantas) is founded by Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness.

November 20 – Prince Arthur of Connaught is appointed the 3rd Governor-General of the Union of South Africa.

November 21 – Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday: The Irish Republican Army, on the instructions of Michael Collins, shoot dead the "Cairo gang", 14 British undercover agents in Dublin, most in their homes. Later that day in retaliation, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary open fire on a crowd at a Gaelic Athletic Association Football match in Croke Park, resulting in 14 deaths with 60 wounded.[8][17] Three men are shot this night in Dublin Castle "while trying to escape".

November 28 – Irish War of Independence – Kilmichael Ambush: The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, led by Tom Barry, ambushes two lorries carrying men of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary at Kilmichael, County Cork, killing 17 (with 3 of its men also dying), which leads to official reprisals.[8]

November 28 – FIDAC (French: Fédération Interalliée Des Anciens Combattants, English: The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations) was established in Paris, at the initiative of the veterans from World War I predominant pacifists and joined by associations of veterans from France, United Kingdom, US, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Serbia.[18]

December[edit] Main article: December 1920 December 1 – The Mexican Revolution ends with a new regime coming to power, which couples with the end of the Old West.

December 3 – Following more than a month of the Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

December 5 – A referendum in Greece is favorable to the reinstatement of the monarchy.

December 10 – Irish War of Independence: Martial law is declared in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary.[8]

December 11 – The Burning of Cork in Ireland: British forces set fire to some 5 acres (20,000 m2) of the centre of Cork, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks, after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.

December 13 – Confectionery company Haribo is founded in Bonn, Germany.

December 16 An 8.6 Richter scale Haiyuan earthquake causes a landslide in Gansu Province, China, killing 180,000.

December 17 – South Africa is granted a League of Nations Class C mandate over South West Africa.

December 23

The Government of Ireland Act 1920, passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, receives Royal Assent from George V, providing for the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, with separate parliaments, granting a measure of home rule.[8][17]

December 25 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship's spiritual healing temple The Ecclesia is dedicated at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California.