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1920
 
    
Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata       
1920
 
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The German Workers' Party, with Adolf Hitler as one of its leading members, changes its name to the Nazi party        
1920
 
   
French intervention in Syria forces Faisal off the throne and out of the country      
1920
 
    
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau       
1920
 
    
The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau       
1920
 
   
A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda      
1920
 
    
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA       
1920
 
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The Government of Ireland Act provides for separate devolved parliaments in southern Ireland and the six counties of Ulster       
1920
 
    
The Marconi studio in the English town of Chelmsford broadcasts Dame Nellie Melba live to Europe and to ships on the Atlantic       
1920
 
   
A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six'