October 12, 1920. First and Lasts.

 Cleveland brought home the 1920 World Series victory.  It was their first.

Man O War beat Sir Barton at Windsor, Ontario.  A highly anticipated race, it was his last.

Sir Barton would spend his retirement years in Wyoming:

The three year old was ridden in the race by Johnny Loftus.

Sir Barton raced again in the 1920 season and set a world's record for the 1 3/16 miles dirt race that  year.  On October 12 of that year he was defeated by Man o' War in a match race at Kenilworth Park in Windsor Ontario.  He was retired and put to stun in 1921.  In 1932 he was sold into the Army Remount Service and stood at Ft. Royal, Virginia and Ft. Robinson, Nebraska.  He was then assigned to Wyoming rancher J. R. Hylton who was part of the Remount program.  The Remount Service at that time assigned out studs to ranchers in the program. 

In 1937 he died of colic and was buried on Hylton's ranch outside of Douglas.  His remains are now in Douglas' Washington Park where a memorial for the horse exists.

An armistice between Poland and the Soviet Union was entered into which was leading up to what would become the Treaty of Riga.  It would go into effect on October 18, 1920.  On the same day, Polish forces under the false flag of mutiny declared the existence of the Republic of Central Lithuania, which would be incorporated into Poland after a decent interval.

The settling conflicts involving a restored Poland contained seeds of future discord, although given its giant neighbor, the Soviet Union, and ultimately failing neighbor, Germany, that can't be really blamed for what occur to Poland in 1939.  The forming peace, however, left Poland with Polish territory in Lithuania, which made ethnographic sense but which caused Lithuanian discontent, and it also left Poland with large areas of Ukrainian and Belorussian territory which contained those ethnicities who were discontent with the results.