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1920 timeline

  • Babe Ruth

    Babe Ruth

    He went and played for the New York Yankees. He set many records like hitting 60 home runs in a season.
  • The Walker Law

    The Walker Law

    It was a early New York State law regulating boxing.
  • National Football League

    National Football League

    The league was founded as the American Professional Football Association with ten teams from four states.
  • JIN FUEY MOY v. UNITED STATES

    JIN FUEY MOY v. UNITED STATES

    In each case where defendant was found guilty the evidence fully warranted the jury in finding that he aided, abetted, and procured a sale of morphine sulphate without written order upon a blank form issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and that he did this by means of a prescription issued not to a patient and not in the course of his professional practice, contrary to the prohibition of § 2 of the act
  • Betting on Professional football

    Betting on Professional football

    Since the early 1920s they passed a law that you can not bet on professional football.
  • UNITED STATES v. BALINT ET AL.

    Whether scienter is a necessary element of a statutory crime, though not expressed in the statute, is a question of legislative intent to be answered by a construction of the statute.
  • Baseball Antitrust

    Baseball Antitrust

    The Supreme Court rules that organized baseball didn't violate antitrust laws.
  • Bobby Jones

    Bobby Jones

    Youngest member of the U.S Walker Cup team. Won 5 U.S amateur titles, 4 U.S opens, 3 Brittish opens, and 1 Brittish amateur title.
  • The Yankee Stadium

    The Yankee Stadium

    Wednesday, April 18, 1923, with the Yankees' first home game, against the Boston Red Sox.
  • First Winter Olympic Games

    First Winter Olympic Games

    A winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. This was the very first Winter Olympic Games.
  • Bill Tilden

    Bill Tilden

    1st American tennis player to complete at Wimbiedon and 1st American winner.
  • gertrude Ederle

    gertrude Ederle

    The 1st women to swim across the England Channel from France to England in 14 hours and 34 minutes.
  • Helen Wills

    Helen Wills

    Dominat American and international female tennis player during the late 1920's.
  • Women in the Olympics

    Women in the Olympics

    For the first time at the Olympic Games, women competed in gymnastics.
  • The Ashes

    The Ashes

    Wally Hammond scores 905 runs at an average of 113.12 as England defeats Australlia in the Ashes.