This Year in History

1920

1920

 

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This Year in History - 1920

  • After the 1920 census, California’s population is reported to be more than 3.4 million – a 44 percent increase since 1910.
  • Six rugby athletes from UC Berkeley earn the university’s first-ever gold medals at the Olympic Games in Paris. Through the 2024 games, also in Paris, UC Berkeley athletes have won 126 gold medals.
  • Paleontologist Chester Stock begins a research career studying the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Building on earlier excavations, he produces breakthroughs with analyses of 50,000-year-old Ice Age ecosystems with saber‑toothed cats, dire wolves, ancient bison, and more.
  • San Francisco hosts the 1920 Democratic National Convention that nominates Ohio governor James Cox for president and Franklin D Roosevelt for vice president. The pair loses in a landslide to the Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge