page_title: June 1920
section_title: June 11, 1920 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1920 / June 11, 1920 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Illinois
context_page_description: Adolfo de la Huerta was sworn into office as President of Mexico. The former Governor of Mexico's Sonora state had prompted the revolution that had toppled the government of President Carranza in May.
  U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress to agree to a U.S. mandate over Armenia, similar to the British and French mandates over former Ottoman territories in the Middle East, was rejected by the U.S. Senate, 52 to 23.
  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hawke v. Smith that Ohio could not hold a referendum to reverse its ratification of the Prohibition amendment, holding that after the constitution is amended, the ratification cannot be taken back. Ohio, which had become the 36th and ratifying state in 1919, had authorized the holding of a public vote on the issue of retraction, but a restraining order had been issued by a lower court to prevent the printing of ballots. The ruling also meant that state legislatures couldn't take back ratifications of the 19th Amendment permitting women's suffrage.
  The Supreme Court ruled also that the salaries paid to the U.S. president and to federal judges were tax-exempt income.
context_section_description: The first four rounds of balloting taken for the presidential nomination were conducted at the 1920 Republican National Convention.  As the session closed at 7:00 in the evening, no candidate had the required majority of the 940 delegates' votes.  With 471 necessary to be nominated, Major General Leonard Wood was in first place at the end of the day, with 314½ votes and Illinois Governor Frank Lowden was second with 289.  The next highest totals after four rounds were U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson of California (140½), Pennsylvania Governor William C. Sproul (79½) and U.S. Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio (61½) 
  Austria's Chancellor Karl Renner and his cabinet resigned 
  Born: 
  Ruth Graham, American Christian author and the wife of evangelist Billy Graham; to American missionaries in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, China (d. 2007)
  King Mahendra of Nepal, ruler of Nepal from 1955 to 1972; in Kathmandu (d. 1972)
  Died: Joseph B. Elwell, 47, American card game authority who wrote several bestselling books on the game of bridge, was murdered at his home on 244 West 17th Street in New York City.  The crime was never solved.
caption: Governor Lowden
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