February 1920
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The following events occurred in February 1920:
February 1, 1920 (Sunday)
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- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was created by the merger of the Dominion Police Force and the North-West Mounted Police.[1]
- The Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia authorized the Central Union of Russian Cooperatives to resume trade with the Allied powers of World War I.[2][3]
- Died: Konstantin Mamontov, 50, Russian military officer who commanded the Don Cossacks army during its fight against the Bolsheviks (b. 1869)[citation needed]
February 2, 1920 (Monday)
[edit]- The Treaty of Tartu was signed between the Soviet Union and Estonia (referred to at the time as "Esthonia"), with the Soviets recognizing Estonia as an independent nation and renouncing claims to Estonian territory.[4][5] The pact, signed at the city of Tartu in Estonia, brought a successful end to the Estonian War of Independence after more than a year of fighting. The Soviet government also agreed to pay five million gold rubles and permission to purchase 2.5 million acres of Russian timber, in return for use of the Narva River for development of hydroelectric power.[2] Estonian independence would last for 20 years, but the nation would be annexed into the Soviet Union on August 6, 1940. The Republic of Estonia would remain part of the U.S.S.R. until August 20, 1991.
- The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the death rate in the United States in 1918 was the highest on record, with 1,471,367 people dying, a rate of 18 per every 1,000 people.[6] Of the total, nearly one-third—477,467—had died in the Spanish influenza epidemic from either the flu or from complications with pneumonia.
- Born: Han Young-suk, Korean folk dancer, preserved the art of the traditional Seungmu and Taepyeongmu Korean dances, honored as a Ingan-munhwage; in Cheonan, Chōsen, Japanese Empire (present-day Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea) (d. 1990)[citation needed]
- Died:Maurice "Moss" Enright, American gangster and labor racketeer; killed in a drive-by shooting after stepping out of his car in front of his home on Chicago's Garfield Avenue.[7][8]