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 art 1919 in aviation 1919 in film 1919 in literature 1919 in music 1919 in science 1919 in sports 1919 in Canada List of state leaders in 1919 List of religious leaders in 1919 List of international organization leaders in 1919

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

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 with Spartacist League in the forefront
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 - Ignace 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 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 23 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
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 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 1 – Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
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 Kloet 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]
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.
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 partiallyparalyzed.
October 9 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
October 9 - Boston police strike
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 28 - The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, becoming the first female member of that institution (she took her seat on December 1).
December 1 – Nancy Astor becomes the first female member of the British House of Commons when she replaces her dead husband
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

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 25.00 US railroad workers; Longshoreman’s strike; The Great Steel Strike; General strike in Seattle, Washington.
In Cleveland, police and army confront the May Day parade and drive into crowd – 2 dead, hundred injured
First Palestine national congress meets in Jerusalem, rejects the Baflour Declaration and demands independence for Palestine
Female suffrage in Germany and Luxemburg
Henri Desire Landru captured

Births

January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
January 13 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
January 13 - Robert Stack, actor
January 14 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
January 23 - Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)
January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
February 11 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
February 12 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
March 11 - Mercer Ellington, musician, composer (d. 1996)
March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Nat King Cole, singer (d. 1965)
March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
May 7 - Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
May 16 - Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
May 16 - Gisela Uhlen, actress
May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
May 20 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991)
May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress, dancer
June 5 - Richard Scarry, children's author
June 21 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 1997)
June 26 - Richard Neustadt, political historian
July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor
July 20 - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)
October 1 - member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - inventor, designer of the Ak-47
November 18 - Andrée Borrel, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis

Deaths

January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt
January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
January 18- His Royal Highness The Prince John, son of George V and Queen Mary
February 17 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada
April 4 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist
April 15 - Jane Delano, founder, American Red Cross Nursing Service
May 6 - L. Frank Baum, writer
August 9 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer
October 7 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
October 18 - Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman
December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter.

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Johannes Stark
Chemistry - not awarded
Medicine - Jules Bordet
Literature - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson