1919 was the common year starting on Wednesday (see hyperlink for calendar).

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 transform into attempted communistic 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 prevent a general strike - Spartacus week is over January 15 - Murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the aftermath of Spartacus uprising January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster: Wave of molasses sweeps through Boston, killing 21 & 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 inside Versailles, France. January 18 - Bentley Motors is founded January 21 - the Foremost Dáil Éireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin. These are from either this meeting that a Irish state dates its being. January 25 - The League of Nations is founded

February-April
February 1 - The 1st 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 One cent by the Usa gallon (Twenty-six ¢/L) 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 number one 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 around Australia. April 25 - Pancho Villa takes Parral in Mexico - hangs mayor & his 2 sons

May-June
May 1 – Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation by having the police May 1 - Weimar Republic troops and Freikorps take over Munich and crush the Soviet Republic of Bavaria May 1 - The May Day Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio – two people flushed, xl hurt, & hundred & sixteen arrested May 3 – People's Republic of Munich is crushed May 4 - May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers inside China May 15 - Winnipeg launches general strike for better wages & 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). [http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm] June 15 - Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juarez. Once a bullets start to fly to a Usa side of the border, Ii units of the United states of america Seventh Cavalry regiment cross the border & repulse Villa's forces June 21 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire the volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing 2, when you took Winnipeg General Strike. June 21 - Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. A nine sailors flushed were a endure 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 Up to date York, completing a number 1 crossing of the Atlantic by an airship. July 31 - Strike of policemen in London & Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police & Prison Officers. All over 2,000 strikers come dismissed. August 11 - In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law. August 19 - Afghanistan gains independence from a United Kingdom. 16 August-26 August - First Silesian Uprising, the Poles around 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: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas. September 23 - Belenenses is founded. September 27 - Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians September 28 - Omaha Riot - lynch mob besieges the police headquarters & courthouse within Omaha, Nebraska and lynch alleged black raper May Brown October 1 - Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, departure him part 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 prevent of year health officials declare a spherical Spanish Flu Pandemic over November 10 - The foremost 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 4 members of the American Legion and the lynching of the local leader of the IWW. November 16 - Admiral Horthy conquers Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic November 27 - The Treaty of Neuilly is signed between Allies and Bulgaria. November 28 - The Our contries-born Lady Astor is elected to the British House of Commons, becoming the number 1 female MP to take a seat in December 1.

December
December 5 - Turkish ministry of war releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service 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
A Åland Islands vote for a go to to Swedish rule in the referendum. Les Champs Magnetiques, the number 1 automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault. XWA (nowadays CFCF), around Montreal, Quebec, is the first public radio station in North America to go on the air. VarioA states strikes within United states: Strike of US railroad workers; Loader’s strike; The Low Steel Strike; General strike inside Seattle, Wash.. Female suffrage in Germany and Luxembourg Henri Desire Landru captured Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design is published. A International Astronomical Union is founded.

Births
Langdon Brown Gilkey - American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian (d. 2004)

January-April
January 1 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist January 13 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003) January 14 - Andy Rooney, American journalist January 23 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962) January 25 - Edwin Newman, American journalist & writer January 26 - Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949) January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician & actor (d. 1972) January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972) February 5 - Red Buttons, American actor February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996) February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (d. 1995) February 11 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach February 12 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986) February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991) February 26 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003) March 2 - Jennifer Jones, American actress March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002) March 17 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965) March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American creator & publisher March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, American economic expert (d. 2005) March 29 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001) March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996) April 8 - Ian Douglas Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia April 19 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer & choreographer

May-August
May 1 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005) May 3 - John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip creative person (d. 2004) May 3 - Pete Seeger, American singer & 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 piano player (d. 1987) May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991) May 20 - George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991) May 23 - Betty Garrett, American actress & dancer June 4 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004) June 5 - Richard Scarry, American tikes's creator (d. 1994) June 19 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001) June 21 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997) June 26 - Richard Neustadt, American political historiographer (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) August 28 - Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and discoverer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)

September-December
September 11 - Ota Sik, Czech economist & politician (d. 2004) September 21 - Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988) September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (d. 1986) October 5 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (d. 1995) October 11 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (d. 1990) October 12 - Doris Miller, African American cook in the United States Navy (d. 1943) October 16 - Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003) 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) October 26 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (d. 2001) November 3 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995) November 5 - Myron Floren, American accordionist (d. 2005) November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor November 14 - Lisa Otto, German soprano November 15 - Roy Burden, Canadian World War II pilot (d. 2005) November 18 - Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (d. 1944) November 28 - Keith Miller, Australian sportsman (d. 2004) December 8 - Moisei Vainberg, Polish composer (d. 1996) December 31 - Tommy Byrne, baseball player

Deaths
January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858) January 6 - Max Heindel, Christian occultist, astrologer, & orphic (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) January 27 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877) 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, Western nurse & founder or even a American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862) May 6 - L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856) June 29 - José Gregorio Hernández, Venezuelan medician and saint (b. 1864) June 30 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842) 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, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) October 18 - Viscount William Astor, American financier & solon (b. 1848) November 15 - Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841)

Marriages

January-April
March 24 - Joseph Stalin & Nadezhda Alliluyeva March 25 - Alma Francis & Robert Gordon April 10 - Yvonne Printemps & Sacha Guitry

May-August
May 6 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon & Esther Marx May 14 - Kirsten Flagstad & Sigurd Hall June 2 - Albert Einstein & Elsa Lowenthal June 7 - Alvin C. York & Gracie Williams June 15 - John Emerson & Anita Loos June 28 - Bess Truman & Harry S. Truman July 3 - Marcel Dassault & Madeleine Minckes July 16 - Carmel Myers & Isidore Kornblum July 16 - Edward Doherty & Mildred Frisby August 11 - Walter Winchell & Rita Greene

September-December
September 7 - Josip Broz Tito & Pelagija Belousova November 2 - Frances Marion & Fred Thomson November 5 - Rudolph Valentino & Jean Acker December 18 - Cole Porter & Linda Lee Thomas December 20 - Gloria Swanson & Herbert K. Somborn

Nobel Prizes
Physics - Johannes Stark Chemistry - not awarded Medicine - Jules Bordet Literature - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

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