1920 - Dirk Fock is appointed as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies
1920 - Eight Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing the 1919 World Series in the infamous "Black Sox scandal"
1931 - 200,000 demonstrators demand a declaration of war on Japan in Peking
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