page_title: July 1920
section_title: July 1, 1920 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: July 1920 / July 1, 1920 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: Sir Robert Laird Borden
context_page_description: Sir Robert Borden announced that he was resigning after nine years of service as Prime Minister of Canada, because of poor health. Borden made his announcement at a meeting in Ottawa of his Unionist Party colleagues.
  The former German town of Walk was divided by an arbitration commission between Estonia and Latvia.
  Born:
  George I. Fujimoto, American chemist and discoverer of the Fujimoto–Belleau reaction; in Seattle
  Aziz Sedky, Prime Minister of Egypt from 1972 to 1973 and the developer of Egypt's industrialization during the rule of President Nasser; in Cairo
  Died: Delfim Moreira, 51, President of Brazil 1918 to 1919
context_section_description: Sir Robert Borden announced that he was resigning after nine years of service as Prime Minister of Canada, because of poor health.  Borden made his announcement at a meeting in Ottawa of his Unionist Party colleagues.
  The former German town of Walk was divided by an arbitration commission between Estonia (where most of the area, including the railway station, became the town of Valga) and Latvia (where the southern suburbs part became Valka).
  Born: 
  George I. Fujimoto, American chemist and discoverer of the Fujimoto–Belleau reaction; in Seattle (living in 2020)
  Aziz Sedky, Prime Minister of Egypt from 1972 to 1973 and the developer of Egypt's industrialization during the rule of President Nasser; in Cairo (d. 2008)
  Died: Delfim Moreira, 51, President of Brazil 1918 to 1919
caption: Borden
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