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1919 (''' MCMXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February-April
May-June
- May 1 — Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with 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 Of 1919 break out in Cleveland, Ohio – two people killed, forty injured, and one hundred and sixteen arrested
- 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 23 — The University Of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles . Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University Of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- 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 .
- approves the 19th Amendment To The United States Constitution , which would guarantee Suffrage to Women , and sends it to the U.S. State s 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). {Link without Title}
- June 15 — Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juarez . When the bullets begin to fly to the US side of the border, 2 units of the US 7th Cavalry regiment cross the border and repulse Villa's forces
- 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 Ludwig Von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow , Orkney . Nine Germans died.
- 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 Police men 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 18 — Destruction of Bolshevik fleet at Kronstadt near Petrograd by British aircraft and torpedo boats in combined operation.
- 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.
- 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 station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska and lynch alleged black rapist Will Brown
- October — the World Series was fixed, in the Black Sox Scandal
- October 1 — Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
- October 2 — US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially Paralyzed .
- "win" the World Series .
- October 9 — Boston Police Strike
- October 13 — Convention Relating To The Regulation Of Aerial Navigation signed.
- 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 16 — Admiral Horthy conquers Budapest from Bela Kun s Soviet Republic
- 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
Unknown dates
Births
January-April
- January 1 — J. D. Salinger , American novelist
- January 5 — Hector Abhayavardhana , Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician
- 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 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 — 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 author and publisher
- March 24 — Robert Heilbroner , American economist (d. 2005 )
- March 29 — Eileen Heckart , American actress (d. 2001 )
- March 30 — McGeorge Bundy , U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996 )
- April 1 — Joseph Murray , American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- April 8 — Ian Douglas Smith , Prime Minister Of Rhodesia
- April 19 — Merce Cunningham , American dancer and choreographer
- April 22 — Donald J. Cram , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001 )
May-August
- May 1 — Dan O'Herlihy , Irish film actor (d. 2005 )
- May 3 — John Cullen Murphy , American comic strip artist (d. 2004 )
- 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 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 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 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
- July 31 — Maurice Boitel , French painter
- August 11 — Ginette Neveu , French violinist (d. 1949 )
- August 25 — George Wallace , racist politician (d. 1998 )
- August 28 — Godfrey Hounsfield , English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
September-December
- 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 3 — James M. Buchanan , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 5 — Donald Pleasence , English actor (d. 1995 )
- October 11 — Art Blakey , American jazz drummer (d. 1990 )
- October 12 — Doris Miller , U.S. Navy cook (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 — James E. Myers , American songwriter (d. 2001 )
- October 26 — Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah Of Iran (d. 1980 )
- 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 6 — Paul De Man , Belgian-born literary critic (d. 1983 )
- December 8 — Mieczyslaw Weinberg , Polish composer (d. 1996 )
- December 9 — William Lipscomb , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- December 31 — Tommy Byrne , baseball player
Deaths
- January 4 - Georg Von Hertling , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1843 )
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President Of The United States (b. 1858 )
- January 6 - Max Heindel , Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (b. 1865 )
- January 7 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philantropist (b. 1843 )
- January 15 - Karl Liebknecht , German politician (executed) (b. 1871 )
- January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg , German politician (executed)
- 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 10 - Emiliano Zapata , Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879 )
- April 15 - Jane Delano , American nurse and founder or the American Red Cross Nursing Service (b. 1862 )
- May 4 - Milan Rastislav Štefánik , Slovak general, politician, and astronomer (b. 1880 )
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum , American writer (b. 1856 )
- May 14 - Henry John Heinz , American businessman (b. 1844 )
- 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. 1836 )
- August 9 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo , Italian composer (b. 1857 )
- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie , Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist (b. 1835 )
- 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 and statesman (b. 1848 )
- November 15 - Alfred Werner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866 )
- December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter (b. 1841 )
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