Spiritual Healing Temple "The Ecclesia" at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California. Undated Black Cross Nurses founded. Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twain's genius was twisted by the conditions and culture of late 19th-century America. This begins a reassessment of Twain, who has been seen hitherto mainly as a humorous entertainer, and his contemporaries. Ongoing Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) First Red Scare (1917–1920) Prohibition (1920–1933) Depression of 1920–21 (1920–1921) Roaring Twenties (1920–1929) Sport January 1 – Harvard Crimson win their First Rose Bowl by defeating the Oregon Webfoots 7 to 6 in the 1920 Rose Bowl. October 12 – Cleveland Indians win their first (and last until 1948) World Series by defeating the Brooklyn Robins 5 games to 2; the deciding game 7 is played at League Park in Cleveland. December 19 – Akron Pros are awarded the First American Professional Football Association Championship. Births January January 1 – Pete Turnham, American politician (died 2019) January 4 – Cris Alexander, actor, singer, dancer, designer and photographer (died 2012) January 6 – Early Wynn, baseball player (died 1999) January 8 Richard Benedict, actor and director (died 1984) Gordon Kahl, tax protester and cop-killer (died 1983) January 10 – Max Patkin, baseball player and clown (died 1999) January 12 – James Farmer, civil rights leader (died 1999) January 15 Bob Davies, basketball player and coach (died 1990) Joseph Mendenhall, ambassador (died 2013) John O'Connor, Catholic cardinal (died 2000) January 16 Al Morgan, novelist and television producer (died 2011) Elliott Reid, actor (died 2013) Walter Frederick Morrison, entrepreneur and inventor (died 2010) January 19 – Buddy O'Grady, basketball player, coach (died 1992) January 20 DeForest Kelley, screen actor (died 1999) Lewis Wilson, actor (died 2000) January 24 – Jerry Maren, actor (died 2018) January 30 – Delbert Mann, television and film director (died 2007) January 31 – James Yimm Lee, martial arts pioneer, teacher, author and publisher (died 1972) February February 3 Russell Arms, American actor and singer (died 2012) Henry Heimlich, thoracic surgeon (died 2016) George Armitage Miller, psychologist (died 2012) February 8 – George W. George, theater, Broadway and film producer (died 2007) February 11 – Billy Halop, actor (died 1976) February 12 William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian (died 2000) Bill Pitman, musician (died 2022) February 17 – Annie Glenn, disability, communication disorder activist (died 2020) February 18