October 20, 1920. Trips and Monarchs
Nicholas Longworth and his wife Alice, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt with President Warren G. Harding. Also in the photographs is Frank B. Willis, a candidate for senator for Ohio. October 20, 1920.
On this day in 1920 Yugoslavia's government voted to become a monarchy with the Serbian Karađorđević dynastic family as its monarchs. A king would not be installed for a year.
British Columbia rejected national prohibition of alcohol, an option available to Canadian provinces. It was the first to do so, but it wouldn't be the last.
Joseph Sadi-Lecointe sets a World Aviation Speed Record flying a Nieuport-Delâge 29V 302.53 kilometers per hour. He's go on to become an aviation official in the French government, resigning that post after the defeat of France in 1940 as he would not serve the Vichy government. He was active in the resistance and arrested by the Gestapo in 1944. He was released after being held for two months, but died as a result of injuries received from torture while a prisoner.
On the same day the Army's Black Wolf Squadron returned to Mitchell Field in New York after having flown all the way to Ft. Davis at Nome Alaska and back.
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