Glen
Moderator
1920
1920 -
Democratic National Convention, 1920, Lincoln Nebraska (taking place in the early summer. All convention events so far posted need to be moved down)
Hearst comes in basically unchallenged with Hoover giving a speech in his support. Hearst is nominated unanimously with all contenders having already dropped out. Hearst names Burton Wheeler as his VP candidate due to his youth, vitality, geographic seperation, and populism.
Republican National Convention, 1920, Boston Massachusetts: A heavily contested convention with no clear political winners. Smith declines to run due to his sucess as governor. Leonard Wood eventually gains the nomination on the 11th ballot mostly due to his name recognition. Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie is named as the VP candidate to try to balance out the ticket.
1920 - The Fairmount-Broadway train line is opened and put under MTA jurisdiction.
1920: In a shocking move, many moderate Progressive members of Congress announce party switches to the Republican Party.
November 1920- Roberto Diaz Leon wins the Cuban presidential election.
January 1st, 1920-The Negro Abroad, a newspaper for the growing Negro community in Europe, begins circulating in Berlin. It will add printing presses in Rome, Paris, London, Addis Ababa, and Harlem by 1930.
January 2nd, 1920- Tillings once again wins, still on the strong Liberia platform, but this time saying that he will finish the "Task" by "making Liberia independent of any other country" .
January 18th 1920- President Dartiguanave of Haiti forced to escape to Cuba after a military coup of the US created Gendarmerie forced him out of office.
January 19, 1920: Willys Motors buys out Nash-LaFayette to become the 4th-largest car manufacturer in the USA.
Febuary 7th, 1920 China signs a deal with Germany that gives a German company a contract to build railroads for the New Republic.
February 16th 1920- Dutch aviation engineer, Anthony Fokker, develops an interrupter gear for the German military. He produces the first forward firing aircraft in the German Luftwaffe, the Fokker E.5
Spring 1920 A virulent strain of influenza breaks out in the United States of America, first in the mid-west but then spreading through most of the nation. It hits healthy young adults especially hard compared to other strains. Almost the entire country closes down. The influenzae also spreads to other parts of North America.
March 2, 1920 -- In response to repeated requests from American immigrants, Empress Zauditu divides the nation into 35 states, grants each autonomy in strictly subsidiary matters, and allows each to have an elected House and Governor (or Mayor, in the case of Addis Ababa). She also creates a Senate, which she appoints and which cannot override her veto. Among her first slate of Senators is Prof. McKay's wife, Eulalie Lewars.
March 4th 1920- Major Erwin Rommel assigned to the motorization testing Brigade. He’s recognized by many in the General Staff as an expert in motorization by now.
March 21, 1920- Leon Blum wins the general election in France. Despite actually being moderate compared to some of his Socialist supporters, he is highly disliked by the right (which is fired up due to the Italian Civil War). Right-wingers start protesting on the street.
March 27, 1920- At a protest in Tours, a govt. soldier gets a little nervous and accidentally shoots into the air. This gets the protesters very angry, thinking someone has been shot, and they rush the soldiers. Both soldiers and protestors are killed in the ensuing chaos, and protests in other cities threaten to erupt into something bigger...
March 30, 1920- PM Blum, alarmed by the growing chaos, declares martial law and orders the military to enforce a strict curfew in many major cities. This is too much for many rightists in the Army, and a group, led by Marshal Petain and including a young Colonel Charles De Gaulle, resign their commissions.
April 1, 1920- Marshal Petain is contacted in his home by several rightists from the Action Francaise, who feel an all-out leftist coup and takeover is inminent and want to strike first, or at least be ready. Alarmed, he agrees to lend his, and the other rightist officers, support to the movement.
April 3, 1920- Rightist sympathizers begin to camp out in Paris, waving protest signs during the day and generally being a nuisance. The police keep an eye on them, but Blum, not wanting to further exacerbate the situation, orders them to keep quiet.
April 6th 1920- King George I of Greece dies on his sleep. Replaced as King by his son Constantine.
April 6th 1920- Start of the “April Riots” in Canada. Henri Bourassa declared a general strike of all French-Canadians to protest what he called “the racist policies of Prime Minister Hughes and the lack of interest of the Governor-General and the Imperial Council for the plight of citizens of the Empire.”
April 7, 1920- The Rightist demonstrations get a major boost when Marshal Petain, along with many of the other recently resigned officers, arrives to join them. By now news of the demonstration has spread through France, and conservatives and authoritarians alike are congegrating on the city. Blum grows increasingly agitated, and after much discussion with his advisors (many of which urge him to take out the "damn fascistis" once and for all), orders the police to get ready to arrest the officers in the next few days.
April 8th 1920- Canadian Prime Minister Sam Hughes announces the strike was illegal and to disperse in 48 hours.
April 10, 1920 -- Gertude Stein, disdainful of the looming civil war, leaves Paris for New Orleans.
April 10th 1920- Canadian troops began arresting French-Canadian protestors in Ontario but in Quebec troops were forced back to their barracks and in many instances French-Canadian troops joined the strikers.
April 12th 1920- Canadian Populist leaders in the central provinces declared their support for the plight of the French-Canadian. Canada was rapidly falling into chaos.
April 12, 1920 - Blum's government sends in the police to arrest the Rightist demonstrators, but they resist, often with violence. The police are forced to retreat from the field, giving the Rightist protestors a boost. Several protestors are wounded, one fatally, who becomes the cause's first martyr.
April 12th 1920 The German designers draw up plans for the UA class U Boat. The UA class is 230 feet long, about 1500 tons with a speed of 15.3 knots on the surface, and a range of 15,420 miles at 10 knots. Can dive to the depth of 175 ft. Is manned by a crew of 56 with room for twenty more. Has an cargo capacity of 700 tons.
April 13, 1920 - Blum orders the military in to break up the protestors. Several refuse to take action against the Rightists.
April 15, 1920 - Enough volunteer military, mostly sympathetic to the left, are found to send against the protestors. Bloody street fighting breaks out this time in earnest. The protestors are forced to flee, but this is only the beginning.
April 16, 1920 - Violent riots break out in major cities throughout France protesting the 'Cowardly Reds' and their 'pet soldiers'. Several cities are taken over entirely as many veterans of the last war swarm in from the countryside.
April 16th 1920- Troops fight the strikers in the Quebec-Ontario border and began to move north in the direction of Montreal and Quebec City.
April 17th 1920- An expose appears in the Canadian newspapers, demonstrating the level of corruption on the Hughes’ administration, with his cronies getting paid for services not provided to the government or being overpaid for contracts. The source of the information is unknown to this day but is suspected more moderate members of the Conservative party were responsible but even some far-fetch theories blame the British or the Americans.
April 19th 1920- Chaos ensued in all major cities in the north. French Prime Minister Leon Blum forced to leave Paris in an airship and move the government to Marseilles.
April 20th 1920- British government, thru Governor-General the Duke of Devonshire, dissolves the Canadian Parliament and ask Hughes to resign “for the good of the Dominion.”
April 21st 1920- Troops advancing into Quebec are ordered to return to Ontario and an agreement was reached with the strikers in Quebec assuring them troops will not enter again until the situation is resolved.
April 22nd 1920- Sam Hughes, his political career in ruins and being forced to resign, commits suicide. Albert Edward Kemp replaces him as Prime Minister until elections could be held.
April 24th 1920- French-Canadian militias disperse after assurances were given their grievances were going to be examined by the Imperial Council and the new government plus amnesty was being given to all the leaders of the strike.
May 1st 1920- After close to a month of chaos the dust settled and the nation was divided in a north-south split, with the right-wing followers in control of the North of France except for socialist pockets in Troyes and Chartres. On the south the socialists were in control except for the city of Toulouse and a long strip of land following the Swiss border and going all the way to Lyon. Both sides began to make operations to eliminate the pockets of enemy soldiers in their respective areas of control.
May 7th 1920- Ford Motors Co. began assembling cars in Australia.
May 7th 1920- Prime Minister Hara survives an assassination attempt by a left wing supporter. The resulting persecution of the Socialists and other dissenting movements was finally made official by the Peace Preservation Law.
May 11th 1920- Bela Ferenc Blasko promoted to the rank of major. His troops in Montenegro, many of them from Transylvania, gave him his nickname after he impalled some prisioners. He was called either Vlad the Impaller or Dracula by his troops.
May 18th 1920- Charles Maurras, leader of the Action Francaise, self-styled himself as Prime Minister and after a long debate between the factions involved he wins but the more moderate Petain gets both the War and Foreign Ministries.
May 30th 1920- Chartres falls in the hands of the right-wing forces.
Summer 1920
With political instabilty making life difficult at home, French people begin alighting for overseas in increasing numbers. A few move abroad to Quebec or to various colonies, but the majority make the simple trip across the Mediterranean to Algeria. The towns of NouvelleAlsace and Cambon are founded this summer.
June 7th 1920- British Government announces India will receive representation in the Imperial Council and a special election will be done to elect the Indian representatives.
June 11th 1920- Prime Minister Hara reluctantly presents the Peace Preservation Law to the Emperor to his approval. Hara knew the civil liberties of many citizens would be curtained by this measure but he also accepted it needed to be done to “save the nation.”
June 16th 1920- Riots in Buenos Aires and other cities broke by troops following a week of a general strike that paralyzed the country. The Radical Party, very popular at the moment of their election in 1916, was losing popularity due to the economic problems caused by the lack of commerce caused by the Flu epidemic.
June 17th 1920- Socialist attempts to capture Lyon foiled by the arrival of the 4th Army, an army under the control of the right-wing forces.
June 18, 1920 - The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) obtains a charter to operate a transit line on the now mostly-abandoned Grand Junction trackage, while it remains in the hands of Boston and Albany.
June 18th 1920- City of Toulouse surrenders after defenders are allowed to go to Spain for internment.
June 19th 1920- Liberal Mackenzie King elected Prime Minister of Canada by a landslide. Many considered the actions of Hughes as the end of the Conservative Party in Canada, not able to elect a Prime Minister until the early 1970’s.
Summer 1920 - With some 20% of the United States population having contracted the Yankee Flu, as the world has taken to calling it, the nation is paralyzed. Canada, the Mexicos, and Central America have been similarly hard hit. Cases are beginning to appear in South America as well. Europe has been mostly spared due to stringent quarantine of shipping from the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 350,000 people will die of the epidemic in the USA alone.
Summer 1920: Moderate Republican front-runner Theodore Roosevelt contracts influenzae while campaigning and nearly dies from pneumonia complications.
July 1920: Ballinger attempts to distance the newly founded league from La Follete. Johonson encourages him to seek a more mainstreme Progressive stance, but Ballinger fails to take decicive action. His staff draws up a charter which basically supports general liberal ideology while failing to take a direct stance of the issues of the day. Ballinger continues to appear tri-partisan and money begins to pour in. Ballinger's men try to paint the league as a non partisan attempt to achieve social justice. La Follete privately criticizes the movement, but fails to take any public action.
July 8th 1920- First major offensive operation of the war starts when the right-wingers 4th and 10th Armies attacked to eliminate the socialist bulge between Lyon and Clermont. After close to two weeks of combat the bulge was eliminated. The front ran at that time from a line roughly going from north of Bordeaux in the Atlantic (in socialists hands) thru France and following a line going south of Clermont and Lyon (in right-wingers hands) until reaching the Italian border.
July 17th 1920- City of Troyes falls. The persecution of socialist dissidents began on earnest on the north.
July 17th 1920- King Alfonso XIII names Miguel Primo de Rivera Prime Minister of Spain in an attempt to end the economic crisis in the nation.
July 18th 1920- Serbian emigre Gravilo Prancip dies during a botched robbery in Sarajevo.
July 31st 1920- Right-Winger Prime Minister Maurras calls for a return of the monarchy and offered the throne to the Napoleonic pretender, who accepted after some deliberations on August 15th 1920.
August 1920 - The first cases of Yankee Flu appear in China, believed due to lax quarantine procedures.
August 18th 1920- First of the six ship Constellation Class battlecruisers approved by the US Congress. Very fast battlecruisers (32 knots), They were armed with ten 14” guns in dual turrets and the last was commissioned by late 1924.
August 18th 1920- Leon Blum recognized a long civil war will weaken France and began secret negotiations to end the conflict.
August 25th 1920- Oil discovered in Argelia by the Bureau of Petroleum Research. The area is near the Tunisian border in Hassi Messamoud but it's considered substantial enough to merit further exploration and exploitation.
September 1920: Seymour publishes his first book, "The Eagle and the Greenback: A history of American Corruption." The book is not only detailed and well researched, but also exceptionally well written and appealing to both academics and everyday people. During the election campaign, Hearst somewhat promotes the book, claiming that it is a truly multi sided look at a very serious problem, partly to help promote Seymour himself. The book sells better then even Hearst intended, after recieving amazing reviews from all newspapers, including the Freemans Journal, and those owned by Pulitzer Inc. The struggles against political machines and corrupt businesses is a universal tri-partisan subject.
September 18th 1920- The military governor of Libya and Tunisia, Armando Diaz declares for the Fascisti.
September 18th 1920- Benjamin Davis, after being approached by Ethiopian military and government officials and after consulting with his family and other American expatriates, resigns his commision in the United States Army and accepts the rank of Colonel in the Ethiopian Army.
September 20th 1920- Napoleon the IV is crowned in a ceremony in Paris.
September 25th 1920-Prime Minister Maurras refuses to even discuss terms to end the war with Blum and don't pass the information to his cabinet. The war was turning into a quagmire, with both sides not been strong enough to end the stalemate.
Fall 1920 - The Yankee Flu has reached the Russian Empire and Southeast Asia. Millions of deaths are being reported in China, some being blamed on a shortage of antibiotics. However, demographers note that losses are only moderately more percentage wise than the developed world.
October: The Equality League expands to include inner city urban issues and Populist farming issues. It begins to hire clerks and lawyers becoming an early lobbyist empire. Ballinger personally invites both Smith and Bryan to join the league. Bryan agrees to join on the condition that the league support his actions in his respective areas, and that his regions would get equal ammounts of monetary assistance as compared to the west coast where the league is based.
October 1st to 9th 1920- The New York Yankees win an astounding third consecutive World Series by defeating the Buffalo Braves 4 games to 2. With Johnson having an injury plagued season and only winning 10 games it was up to the Yankee offense to win the pennant and they responded. With catcher Ruth leading the way with a healthy .374-54-142 and leading the league in homeruns and ribbies, Tris Speaker having his first outstanding season since being acquired in 1917 leading the league in hitting with a .391 batting average plus adding 10 homers and 110 ribbies, Roger Hornsby exploded into a power hitter by hitting .372-20-86 and the arrival of rookie Bob Meusel that hit .322-10-86 their offense changed the face of baseball. Teams began to look for power hitters instead of slap hitters and this season is considered the beginning of the live ball era.
October 7th 1920- Russia and Romania signed an economic treaty with secret clauses included. Germany and Austria-Hungary were wary of this economic treaty, and the refusal of the Romanians to join the German led Central European Trade Union, but recognized there was no reason for an aggressive action.
October 11th 1920- French Socialist military officers leak information to the Monarchist Foreign Minister Petain of the refusal of Maurras to end the conflict.
October 18th 1920- Petain launches a coup to remove Maurras from power with the support of the new monarch. Maurras is arrested and Petain is named Prime Minister by the King. The persecution of the more radical elements of the Action Francaise starts.
November 1920 - For the first time in years, a presidential election ends with a candidate receiving the majority of the electoral vote, though only a plurality of the popular vote, as Democratic candidate William Randolph Hearst wins the US presidency.
November 1920 - Dr. Oberth publishes an expanded, popular version of his doctoral thesis, exciting further interest in the field of rocketry.
November 1920: Phil Swing is re-elected on a joint Progresive-Republican ticket. As the Progressive party falls apart, Swing drops his connection to the Progressive party.
November 17th 1920- Petain request to meet with Blum in Clermont to negotiate an end to the conflict. By now the military officers on both sides recognized a long civil war will destroy the nation and were working for a fast resolution of the conflict.
December 17th 1920- With the industrial areas on the hands of the Fascisti since the beginning of the conflict and with the defection of the colonial forces the situation was considered as a losing proposition by the King. He asked the Fascisti leader, Franco Pasolini, to form a new government and dissolved the government of Sidney Sonnino. Pasolini accepts the offer and arrives to Rome three days later under heavy escort of his sympathizers.
1920 -
Democratic National Convention, 1920, Lincoln Nebraska (taking place in the early summer. All convention events so far posted need to be moved down)
Hearst comes in basically unchallenged with Hoover giving a speech in his support. Hearst is nominated unanimously with all contenders having already dropped out. Hearst names Burton Wheeler as his VP candidate due to his youth, vitality, geographic seperation, and populism.
Republican National Convention, 1920, Boston Massachusetts: A heavily contested convention with no clear political winners. Smith declines to run due to his sucess as governor. Leonard Wood eventually gains the nomination on the 11th ballot mostly due to his name recognition. Nevada Governor Tasker Oddie is named as the VP candidate to try to balance out the ticket.
1920 - The Fairmount-Broadway train line is opened and put under MTA jurisdiction.
1920: In a shocking move, many moderate Progressive members of Congress announce party switches to the Republican Party.
November 1920- Roberto Diaz Leon wins the Cuban presidential election.
January 1st, 1920-The Negro Abroad, a newspaper for the growing Negro community in Europe, begins circulating in Berlin. It will add printing presses in Rome, Paris, London, Addis Ababa, and Harlem by 1930.
January 2nd, 1920- Tillings once again wins, still on the strong Liberia platform, but this time saying that he will finish the "Task" by "making Liberia independent of any other country" .
January 18th 1920- President Dartiguanave of Haiti forced to escape to Cuba after a military coup of the US created Gendarmerie forced him out of office.
January 19, 1920: Willys Motors buys out Nash-LaFayette to become the 4th-largest car manufacturer in the USA.
Febuary 7th, 1920 China signs a deal with Germany that gives a German company a contract to build railroads for the New Republic.
February 16th 1920- Dutch aviation engineer, Anthony Fokker, develops an interrupter gear for the German military. He produces the first forward firing aircraft in the German Luftwaffe, the Fokker E.5
Spring 1920 A virulent strain of influenza breaks out in the United States of America, first in the mid-west but then spreading through most of the nation. It hits healthy young adults especially hard compared to other strains. Almost the entire country closes down. The influenzae also spreads to other parts of North America.
March 2, 1920 -- In response to repeated requests from American immigrants, Empress Zauditu divides the nation into 35 states, grants each autonomy in strictly subsidiary matters, and allows each to have an elected House and Governor (or Mayor, in the case of Addis Ababa). She also creates a Senate, which she appoints and which cannot override her veto. Among her first slate of Senators is Prof. McKay's wife, Eulalie Lewars.
March 4th 1920- Major Erwin Rommel assigned to the motorization testing Brigade. He’s recognized by many in the General Staff as an expert in motorization by now.
March 21, 1920- Leon Blum wins the general election in France. Despite actually being moderate compared to some of his Socialist supporters, he is highly disliked by the right (which is fired up due to the Italian Civil War). Right-wingers start protesting on the street.
March 27, 1920- At a protest in Tours, a govt. soldier gets a little nervous and accidentally shoots into the air. This gets the protesters very angry, thinking someone has been shot, and they rush the soldiers. Both soldiers and protestors are killed in the ensuing chaos, and protests in other cities threaten to erupt into something bigger...
March 30, 1920- PM Blum, alarmed by the growing chaos, declares martial law and orders the military to enforce a strict curfew in many major cities. This is too much for many rightists in the Army, and a group, led by Marshal Petain and including a young Colonel Charles De Gaulle, resign their commissions.
April 1, 1920- Marshal Petain is contacted in his home by several rightists from the Action Francaise, who feel an all-out leftist coup and takeover is inminent and want to strike first, or at least be ready. Alarmed, he agrees to lend his, and the other rightist officers, support to the movement.
April 3, 1920- Rightist sympathizers begin to camp out in Paris, waving protest signs during the day and generally being a nuisance. The police keep an eye on them, but Blum, not wanting to further exacerbate the situation, orders them to keep quiet.
April 6th 1920- King George I of Greece dies on his sleep. Replaced as King by his son Constantine.
April 6th 1920- Start of the “April Riots” in Canada. Henri Bourassa declared a general strike of all French-Canadians to protest what he called “the racist policies of Prime Minister Hughes and the lack of interest of the Governor-General and the Imperial Council for the plight of citizens of the Empire.”
April 7, 1920- The Rightist demonstrations get a major boost when Marshal Petain, along with many of the other recently resigned officers, arrives to join them. By now news of the demonstration has spread through France, and conservatives and authoritarians alike are congegrating on the city. Blum grows increasingly agitated, and after much discussion with his advisors (many of which urge him to take out the "damn fascistis" once and for all), orders the police to get ready to arrest the officers in the next few days.
April 8th 1920- Canadian Prime Minister Sam Hughes announces the strike was illegal and to disperse in 48 hours.
April 10, 1920 -- Gertude Stein, disdainful of the looming civil war, leaves Paris for New Orleans.
April 10th 1920- Canadian troops began arresting French-Canadian protestors in Ontario but in Quebec troops were forced back to their barracks and in many instances French-Canadian troops joined the strikers.
April 12th 1920- Canadian Populist leaders in the central provinces declared their support for the plight of the French-Canadian. Canada was rapidly falling into chaos.
April 12, 1920 - Blum's government sends in the police to arrest the Rightist demonstrators, but they resist, often with violence. The police are forced to retreat from the field, giving the Rightist protestors a boost. Several protestors are wounded, one fatally, who becomes the cause's first martyr.
April 12th 1920 The German designers draw up plans for the UA class U Boat. The UA class is 230 feet long, about 1500 tons with a speed of 15.3 knots on the surface, and a range of 15,420 miles at 10 knots. Can dive to the depth of 175 ft. Is manned by a crew of 56 with room for twenty more. Has an cargo capacity of 700 tons.
April 13, 1920 - Blum orders the military in to break up the protestors. Several refuse to take action against the Rightists.
April 15, 1920 - Enough volunteer military, mostly sympathetic to the left, are found to send against the protestors. Bloody street fighting breaks out this time in earnest. The protestors are forced to flee, but this is only the beginning.
April 16, 1920 - Violent riots break out in major cities throughout France protesting the 'Cowardly Reds' and their 'pet soldiers'. Several cities are taken over entirely as many veterans of the last war swarm in from the countryside.
April 16th 1920- Troops fight the strikers in the Quebec-Ontario border and began to move north in the direction of Montreal and Quebec City.
April 17th 1920- An expose appears in the Canadian newspapers, demonstrating the level of corruption on the Hughes’ administration, with his cronies getting paid for services not provided to the government or being overpaid for contracts. The source of the information is unknown to this day but is suspected more moderate members of the Conservative party were responsible but even some far-fetch theories blame the British or the Americans.
April 19th 1920- Chaos ensued in all major cities in the north. French Prime Minister Leon Blum forced to leave Paris in an airship and move the government to Marseilles.
April 20th 1920- British government, thru Governor-General the Duke of Devonshire, dissolves the Canadian Parliament and ask Hughes to resign “for the good of the Dominion.”
April 21st 1920- Troops advancing into Quebec are ordered to return to Ontario and an agreement was reached with the strikers in Quebec assuring them troops will not enter again until the situation is resolved.
April 22nd 1920- Sam Hughes, his political career in ruins and being forced to resign, commits suicide. Albert Edward Kemp replaces him as Prime Minister until elections could be held.
April 24th 1920- French-Canadian militias disperse after assurances were given their grievances were going to be examined by the Imperial Council and the new government plus amnesty was being given to all the leaders of the strike.
May 1st 1920- After close to a month of chaos the dust settled and the nation was divided in a north-south split, with the right-wing followers in control of the North of France except for socialist pockets in Troyes and Chartres. On the south the socialists were in control except for the city of Toulouse and a long strip of land following the Swiss border and going all the way to Lyon. Both sides began to make operations to eliminate the pockets of enemy soldiers in their respective areas of control.
May 7th 1920- Ford Motors Co. began assembling cars in Australia.
May 7th 1920- Prime Minister Hara survives an assassination attempt by a left wing supporter. The resulting persecution of the Socialists and other dissenting movements was finally made official by the Peace Preservation Law.
May 11th 1920- Bela Ferenc Blasko promoted to the rank of major. His troops in Montenegro, many of them from Transylvania, gave him his nickname after he impalled some prisioners. He was called either Vlad the Impaller or Dracula by his troops.
May 18th 1920- Charles Maurras, leader of the Action Francaise, self-styled himself as Prime Minister and after a long debate between the factions involved he wins but the more moderate Petain gets both the War and Foreign Ministries.
May 30th 1920- Chartres falls in the hands of the right-wing forces.
Summer 1920
With political instabilty making life difficult at home, French people begin alighting for overseas in increasing numbers. A few move abroad to Quebec or to various colonies, but the majority make the simple trip across the Mediterranean to Algeria. The towns of NouvelleAlsace and Cambon are founded this summer.
June 7th 1920- British Government announces India will receive representation in the Imperial Council and a special election will be done to elect the Indian representatives.
June 11th 1920- Prime Minister Hara reluctantly presents the Peace Preservation Law to the Emperor to his approval. Hara knew the civil liberties of many citizens would be curtained by this measure but he also accepted it needed to be done to “save the nation.”
June 16th 1920- Riots in Buenos Aires and other cities broke by troops following a week of a general strike that paralyzed the country. The Radical Party, very popular at the moment of their election in 1916, was losing popularity due to the economic problems caused by the lack of commerce caused by the Flu epidemic.
June 17th 1920- Socialist attempts to capture Lyon foiled by the arrival of the 4th Army, an army under the control of the right-wing forces.
June 18, 1920 - The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) obtains a charter to operate a transit line on the now mostly-abandoned Grand Junction trackage, while it remains in the hands of Boston and Albany.
June 18th 1920- City of Toulouse surrenders after defenders are allowed to go to Spain for internment.
June 19th 1920- Liberal Mackenzie King elected Prime Minister of Canada by a landslide. Many considered the actions of Hughes as the end of the Conservative Party in Canada, not able to elect a Prime Minister until the early 1970’s.
Summer 1920 - With some 20% of the United States population having contracted the Yankee Flu, as the world has taken to calling it, the nation is paralyzed. Canada, the Mexicos, and Central America have been similarly hard hit. Cases are beginning to appear in South America as well. Europe has been mostly spared due to stringent quarantine of shipping from the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 350,000 people will die of the epidemic in the USA alone.
Summer 1920: Moderate Republican front-runner Theodore Roosevelt contracts influenzae while campaigning and nearly dies from pneumonia complications.
July 1920: Ballinger attempts to distance the newly founded league from La Follete. Johonson encourages him to seek a more mainstreme Progressive stance, but Ballinger fails to take decicive action. His staff draws up a charter which basically supports general liberal ideology while failing to take a direct stance of the issues of the day. Ballinger continues to appear tri-partisan and money begins to pour in. Ballinger's men try to paint the league as a non partisan attempt to achieve social justice. La Follete privately criticizes the movement, but fails to take any public action.
July 8th 1920- First major offensive operation of the war starts when the right-wingers 4th and 10th Armies attacked to eliminate the socialist bulge between Lyon and Clermont. After close to two weeks of combat the bulge was eliminated. The front ran at that time from a line roughly going from north of Bordeaux in the Atlantic (in socialists hands) thru France and following a line going south of Clermont and Lyon (in right-wingers hands) until reaching the Italian border.
July 17th 1920- City of Troyes falls. The persecution of socialist dissidents began on earnest on the north.
July 17th 1920- King Alfonso XIII names Miguel Primo de Rivera Prime Minister of Spain in an attempt to end the economic crisis in the nation.
July 18th 1920- Serbian emigre Gravilo Prancip dies during a botched robbery in Sarajevo.
July 31st 1920- Right-Winger Prime Minister Maurras calls for a return of the monarchy and offered the throne to the Napoleonic pretender, who accepted after some deliberations on August 15th 1920.
August 1920 - The first cases of Yankee Flu appear in China, believed due to lax quarantine procedures.
August 18th 1920- First of the six ship Constellation Class battlecruisers approved by the US Congress. Very fast battlecruisers (32 knots), They were armed with ten 14” guns in dual turrets and the last was commissioned by late 1924.
August 18th 1920- Leon Blum recognized a long civil war will weaken France and began secret negotiations to end the conflict.
August 25th 1920- Oil discovered in Argelia by the Bureau of Petroleum Research. The area is near the Tunisian border in Hassi Messamoud but it's considered substantial enough to merit further exploration and exploitation.
September 1920: Seymour publishes his first book, "The Eagle and the Greenback: A history of American Corruption." The book is not only detailed and well researched, but also exceptionally well written and appealing to both academics and everyday people. During the election campaign, Hearst somewhat promotes the book, claiming that it is a truly multi sided look at a very serious problem, partly to help promote Seymour himself. The book sells better then even Hearst intended, after recieving amazing reviews from all newspapers, including the Freemans Journal, and those owned by Pulitzer Inc. The struggles against political machines and corrupt businesses is a universal tri-partisan subject.
September 18th 1920- The military governor of Libya and Tunisia, Armando Diaz declares for the Fascisti.
September 18th 1920- Benjamin Davis, after being approached by Ethiopian military and government officials and after consulting with his family and other American expatriates, resigns his commision in the United States Army and accepts the rank of Colonel in the Ethiopian Army.
September 20th 1920- Napoleon the IV is crowned in a ceremony in Paris.
September 25th 1920-Prime Minister Maurras refuses to even discuss terms to end the war with Blum and don't pass the information to his cabinet. The war was turning into a quagmire, with both sides not been strong enough to end the stalemate.
Fall 1920 - The Yankee Flu has reached the Russian Empire and Southeast Asia. Millions of deaths are being reported in China, some being blamed on a shortage of antibiotics. However, demographers note that losses are only moderately more percentage wise than the developed world.
October: The Equality League expands to include inner city urban issues and Populist farming issues. It begins to hire clerks and lawyers becoming an early lobbyist empire. Ballinger personally invites both Smith and Bryan to join the league. Bryan agrees to join on the condition that the league support his actions in his respective areas, and that his regions would get equal ammounts of monetary assistance as compared to the west coast where the league is based.
October 1st to 9th 1920- The New York Yankees win an astounding third consecutive World Series by defeating the Buffalo Braves 4 games to 2. With Johnson having an injury plagued season and only winning 10 games it was up to the Yankee offense to win the pennant and they responded. With catcher Ruth leading the way with a healthy .374-54-142 and leading the league in homeruns and ribbies, Tris Speaker having his first outstanding season since being acquired in 1917 leading the league in hitting with a .391 batting average plus adding 10 homers and 110 ribbies, Roger Hornsby exploded into a power hitter by hitting .372-20-86 and the arrival of rookie Bob Meusel that hit .322-10-86 their offense changed the face of baseball. Teams began to look for power hitters instead of slap hitters and this season is considered the beginning of the live ball era.
October 7th 1920- Russia and Romania signed an economic treaty with secret clauses included. Germany and Austria-Hungary were wary of this economic treaty, and the refusal of the Romanians to join the German led Central European Trade Union, but recognized there was no reason for an aggressive action.
October 11th 1920- French Socialist military officers leak information to the Monarchist Foreign Minister Petain of the refusal of Maurras to end the conflict.
October 18th 1920- Petain launches a coup to remove Maurras from power with the support of the new monarch. Maurras is arrested and Petain is named Prime Minister by the King. The persecution of the more radical elements of the Action Francaise starts.
November 1920 - For the first time in years, a presidential election ends with a candidate receiving the majority of the electoral vote, though only a plurality of the popular vote, as Democratic candidate William Randolph Hearst wins the US presidency.
November 1920 - Dr. Oberth publishes an expanded, popular version of his doctoral thesis, exciting further interest in the field of rocketry.
November 1920: Phil Swing is re-elected on a joint Progresive-Republican ticket. As the Progressive party falls apart, Swing drops his connection to the Progressive party.
November 17th 1920- Petain request to meet with Blum in Clermont to negotiate an end to the conflict. By now the military officers on both sides recognized a long civil war will destroy the nation and were working for a fast resolution of the conflict.
December 17th 1920- With the industrial areas on the hands of the Fascisti since the beginning of the conflict and with the defection of the colonial forces the situation was considered as a losing proposition by the King. He asked the Fascisti leader, Franco Pasolini, to form a new government and dissolved the government of Sidney Sonnino. Pasolini accepts the offer and arrives to Rome three days later under heavy escort of his sympathizers.
rescott Shelton Bush Jr. is born. He later proves to be, like his father, the big man on campus. It is expected that he will go far with his speaking skills and persuasiveness.