1920
17 JANUARY
The Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution comes into effect (above), banning alcohol across the nation in a policy known as prohibition.
18 AUGUST
US women (above right) win the right to vote after the Nineteenth Amendment to the constitution is ratified.
11 NOVEMBER
King George V unveils the Cenotaph on Whitehall in tribute to the lives lost during World War I. Meanwhile, an unidentified British soldier from that conflict is interred in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
