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the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana , at its opening on March 1 , 1920 ?
the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?
the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
in addition to 8,000 Scouts , the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
Joseph Guillemot , winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics , was a pack-a-day smoker ?
in 1920 a Secret Court , headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals , resulting in nine expulsions?
Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java " (Parijs van Java ) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street ?
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Question 5 : ________ – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial.
Question 6 : ________ – John Reed , American journalist (b.
Question 7 : ________ – Polish troops take Vilnius .
Question 8 : ________ , English biologist (d.
Question 9 : March 29 – Sir William Robertson , who enlisted in ________ , becomes a field marshal in the British Army, the first man to rise to this rank from private.
Question 10 : ________ – Samuel Griffith , Australian politician and judge (b.