13th January 1920
Demonstrations in front of the Reichstag in Berlin turn bloody after police use guns and grenades to disperse the crowd, resulting in around 42 deaths. The crowds before the massacre.
Police and a machine gun in front of the Reichstag after demonstrations on January 13,1920.
Arrested foreign nationals suspected of having radical leftist ties awaiting deportation on Ellis Island.
A New York Times editorial calls Robert Goddard’s claim that rockets could eventually reach the moon a “severe strain on credulity.”
Ship Losses:
Jane and Ann (United Kingdom) The schooner was driven ashore at St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire and was wrecked.
Willy (Norway) The cargo ship collided with
Trentino ( United Kingdom) in the Atlantic Ocean off the Longships and sank.