page_title: February 1920
section_title: Tuesday, February 24, 1920
hierarchical_section_title: February 1920 / Tuesday, February 24, 1920
caption_attribution_description: English: The logo of the German Workers' Party (DAP) before it's renaming to the NSDAP. Made from a photograph of a party pin.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in February 1920:
context_section_description: The National Socialist German Workers' Party, colloquially known as the Nazi Party, was founded at a meeting at the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in Munich.  With over 2,000 people in attendance, German Workers' Party (DAP) Chairman and founder Anton Drexler introduced Adolf Hitler, who then presented his German nationalist "25-Point Program" that changed the DAP's mission statement, its flag and its name to the new NSDAP.  The term "Nazi" derived from the abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische.
  The Dairy Council, which has promoted the consumption of milk in the United Kingdom for almost a century, was founded.  During its first 63 years of existence, it was called the National Milk Publicity Council.
  The rights to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published continuously since its founding in Great Britain in 1768, was purchased by American philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the Chief Executive Officer of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
  Soviet Army general Yakov Tryapitsyn and 4,000 troops entered the city of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, which had been occupied by the Japanese Army's 14th Infantry Division, a Russian White Army garrison, and 6,000 Russian and Japanese civilians.  Outnumbered by 4,000 Soviet troops against the combine Japanese and White Russian force of 650, the Japanese commander allowed the Soviets to enter the city.  General Trapitsyn's men then began a roundup of the White Russian troops for execution.
  The League of Nations Supreme Council decided that it would not recognize the Soviet Union as the government of Russia until outrages by the Bolsheviks were halted, but said that the League nations would resume trade with Russia, and that neighboring nations would receive "every possible support" from the League if they were attacked by the Soviets.
  Mathias Erzberger was forced to resign as Germany's Minister of Finance after his financial scandals were revealed in testimony during a lawsuit he had brought against Dr. Karl Helfferich for libel 
  The U.S. state of Maryland rejected the 19th Amendment for women's suffrage nationwide.  In 1941, Maryland would become the first of nine southern states to reverse its decision to reject the amendment.
  Born: V. Nanammal, Indian yoga teacher who trained over one million students during her 45-year career, in Coimbatore, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu state) (d. 2019)
caption: DAP
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