1919

Years:
1916 1917 1918 – 1919 – 1920 1921 1922

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century – 20th century – 21st century

1919 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Canada – Ireland – South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 January-April
- 2.2 May-December
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January

January 1 – Iolaire sinking disaster
January 1 – Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
January 5 – Spartacist uprising – Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution
January 9 – Spartacus revolutionary council folds – Friedrich Ebert orders Freikorps into action
January 10-12 – Freikorps attack Spartacus supporters around Berlin
January 11 – Romania annexes Transylvania.
January 13 – Worker’s councils in Berlin end the general strike – Spartacus week is over
January 15 – The Boston Molasses Disaster: Wave of molasses sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150
January 15 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland
January 16 – The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States
January 18 – World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France.
January 18 – Bentley Motors is founded
January 21 – the First Dáil Éireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin. It is from this meeting that the Irish state dates its existence.
January 25 – The League of Nations is founded

February-April

February 1 – The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
February 3 – Soviet troops occupy Ukraine
February 11 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
February 14 – Polish-Soviet War begins
February 25 – Oregon places a 1 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
February 26 – An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
March 1 – March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
March 2 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow
March 15 – The American Legion forms in Paris
March 21 – The Chinese High School was established in Singapore by Mr. Tan Kah Kee
March 23 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
March 31 – General strike begins in the Ruhr
April 6-7 – Communist People’s Republic of Munich founded
April 13 – At the Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Indians.
April 14 – Emperor of Austria moves to exile in Switzerland
April 25 – Bauhaus movement founded
April 25 – ANZAC day is celebrated for the first time in Australia.

May-June

May 1 – Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
May 1 – In Cleveland, police and army confront the May Day parade and drive into crowd – 2 dead, one hundred injured
May 3 – People's Republic of Munich is crushed
May 4 – May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China
May 15 – Winnipeg launches general strike for better wages and working conditions.
May 16 – US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
May 17 – Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike
May 25 – Volcano Kelut erupts in Java – 16.000 dead
May 29 – Einstein's theory of general relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun.
June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
June 14 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight (they landed at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day). [1]
June 21 – Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnipeg General Strike.
June 21 – Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I with Germany.

July-November

July 6 – The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
July 31 – Strike of policemen in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
August 11 – In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law.
August 19 – Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
16 August-26 August – First Silesian Uprising, the Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans
August 31 – American Communist Party is established
September 10 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria.
September 10-15: A hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico and Texas.
September 27 – Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians
October 1 – Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
October 2 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 9 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
October 9 – Boston police strike
October 13 – Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed.
October 28 – Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
November – At end of month health officials declare the global Spanish Flu Pandemic over
November 10 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
November 11 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the IWW.
November 27 – The Treaty of Neuilly is signed between Allies and Bulgaria.
November 28 – The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the British House of Commons, becoming the first female MP to take a seat on December 1.

December

December 12 – Gabriele D'Annunzio with his entourage marches into Fiume and convinces the Italian troops to join him
December 30 – Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.
The Paris Peace Conference

Unknown dates

The Åland Islands vote for a return to Swedish rule in a referendum.
Les Champs Magnetiques, the first automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault.
XWA (now CFCF), in Montreal, Quebec, is the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.
Various strikes in USA: Strike of US railroad workers; Longshoreman’s strike; The Great Steel Strike; General strike in Seattle, Washington.
Female suffrage in Germany and Luxemburg
Henri Desire Landru captured
Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design is published.

Births

January-April

January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist
January 13 – Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
January 13 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
January 14 – Andy Rooney, American television journalist
January 23 – Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
January 23 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
January 25 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
January 26 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian, American musician and actor (d. 1972)
January 31 – Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
February 5 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
February 5 – Red Buttons, American actor
February 11 – Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier
February 11 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach
February 12 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986)
February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
March 2 – Jennifer Jones, American actress
March 11 – Mercer Ellington, musician and composer (d. 1996)
March 15 – Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
March 17 – Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
March 24 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
March 30 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
April 8 – Ian Douglas Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia

May-December

May 1 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
May 3 – Pete Seeger, American singer and musician
May 7 – Eva Peron, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
May 8 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
May 16 – Gisela Uhlen, actress
May 18 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
May 20 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
May 23 – Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
June 4 – Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
June 5 – Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
June 21 – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
June 26 – Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
July 6 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor
July 7 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
July 15 – Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist (d. 1999)
July 20 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer
August 11 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)
September 11 – Ota Sik, Czech economist and politician (d. 2004)
September 21 – Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988)
September 27 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (d. 1986)
October 11 – Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990)
October 18 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
October 22 – Doris Lessing, British writer
October 26 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
November 10 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor
November 14 – Lisa Otto, German soprano
November 18 – Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (d. 1944)
November 28 – Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004)
December 31 – Tommy Byrne, Major League Baseball player

Deaths

January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
January 6 – Max Heindel, Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (b. 1865)
January 15 – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (executed)
January 15 – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (executed) (b. 1871)
January 18 – Prince John of the United Kingdom (b. 1905)
February 17 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
April 4 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
April 15 – Jane Delano, American nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862)
May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
July 15 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
July 26 – Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (b. 1936)
August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer (b. 1857)
October 18 – Viscount William Astor, American financier and statesman (b. 1848)
December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Johannes Stark
Chemistry – not awarded
Medicine – Jules Bordet
Literature – Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

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