page_title: March 1920
section_title: March 10, 1920 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: March 1920 / March 10, 1920 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Hjalmar Branting (1860-1925), Prime Minister of Sweden 1920, 1921-23 and 1924-25.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in March 1920:
context_section_description: The Canadian fishing trawler FV Jutland departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia with a crew of 21 people. The next day, one body was found in a lifeboat. FV Jutland and the other 20 crew were never seen again.
  The world's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government took place in Sweden, as Hjalmar Branting took over as Prime Minister when Nils Edén left office.
  West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, permitting universal women's suffrage, by a vote of 16 to 13 in favor  One week earlier, the state House of Delegates had approved ratification by a similarly narrow vote of 47 to 40.
  Born:
  Boris Vian, French novelist who wrote under the pen-name Vernon Sullivan; in Ville-d'Avray (d. of cardiac arrest, 1959)
  Alfred Peet, Netherlands-born U.S. entrepreneur, founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea; in Alkmaar (d. 2007)
caption: Premier Branting
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