Timeline July 1920

Events in July 1920 9

• 1920 Wimbledon 1920 Men: Bill Tilden · Women: Suzanne Lenglen Bill Tilden, the dominant American player, won Wimbledon. Lenglen defended.
• 1920 – 1985 Yul Brynner (1920-1985) Died 10 October 1985, aged 65 Brynner was an actor best known for his Tony and Academy Award-winning role as the King of Siam in The King and I. He died of lung cancer in New York on 10 October 1985, and a posthumous anti-smoking advertisement he recorded became widely seen.
• 1920 – 2010 Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010) Died 21 April 2010, aged 89 Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator who served as President of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001, overseeing the Games' transformation into a major commercial enterprise. His tenure was also marked by bidding scandals, including the 2002 Salt Lake City affair. He died of heart failure in Barcelona.
• 1920 – 2001 Isaac Stern (1920-2001) Died 22 September 2001, aged 81 Stern was one of the leading violinists of the twentieth century and a tireless cultural advocate. He led the campaign that saved Carnegie Hall from demolition in 1960 and chaired it thereafter. His 1979 visit to China was filmed as the documentary From Mao to Mozart.
• 1920 – 1999 Amália Rodrigues Queen of Fado The singer who popularized Fado music worldwide and became a symbol of Portuguese culture.
• 1920 Battle of Maysalun French forces defeat Arab army, ending Kingdom of Syria French troops defeated the army of the short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria at Maysalun, near Damascus, ending King Faisal's rule. France subsequently established the Mandate for Syria. The defeat is remembered in Syria as a symbol of resistance to colonial occupation.
• 1920 Birth of Rosalind Franklin Born in Notting Hill, London, to a prominent Anglo-Jewish family Rosalind Franklin was born on 25 July 1920 in Notting Hill, London, the second of five children in a wealthy and socially active Anglo-Jewish family. Her father, Ellis Franklin, was a merchant banker involved in adult education and refugee relief, while her family placed a strong emphasis on public service and academic achievement. From an early age she displayed exceptional aptitude for science and mathematics, reportedly deciding on a career in science by her mid-teens despite some family skepticism about the path for a woman of her era.
• 1920 – 1958 Rosalind Franklin X-ray crystallographer whose data was pivotal to discovering the structure of DNA Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose diffraction images of DNA, most famously "Photo 51", provided critical evidence for the double-helix structure published by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. Beyond DNA, she made lasting contributions to the understanding of coal and carbon structures and to the molecular structure of viruses, including tobacco mosaic virus and poliovirus. Her data was used by Watson and Crick without her knowledge or consent, and for decades her role in the DNA discovery was underappreciated. She died of ovarian cancer at 37, four years before the 1962 Nobel Prize was awarded to Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins for the work her data underpinned.
• 1920 Communist Party of Great Britain Founded British communists unite into a single party Several socialist and communist groups in Britain merged to form the Communist Party of Great Britain at a unity convention in London. The party affiliated with the Communist International in Moscow. It remained active in British politics for seven decades.