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Events - May 1920
May 5 - Wolfgang Kapp leads a putsch in Berlin that's failed due in large part to a general strike by the city. Involved in the incident due, ironically, to their severe love of their country (Kapp was a proponent of the "stab in the back" theory that put forward the notion that Germany lost the Great War due to inaction or intentional sabotage by some of its people) are 1B Wilbur Kisslinger, MR Rolf Lammesfelder, and LF Henry Mohr. All three players are suspended from baseball play indefinitely.
May 8 - The communist Red Army of Ruhr forms in Germany. For once, the Teutonic Knights catch a break: no baseball players are involved with this one.
May 10 - The US Congress refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. All Western European nations break the shaky half-alliance they had with the American baseball teams, including Paris' lending arrangement with the US Army Baseball Engineers. Nobody had been sent to the Army as of yet.
May 16 - Germany sends their regular army to fight the Red Ruhr Army. No Berlin Teutonic Knights involved again. Is the fix in???
May 18 - The Chita Republic is formed as a "buffer state" between Russia and Japan.
May 20 - Álvaro Obregón of Mexico flees a mock trial held in Mexico City and starts talking to the military in Guerrero. Will Mexico City have a new GM soon?
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Last edited by Syd Thrift; 07-24-2008 at 10:44 AM.
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