Year (''' MCMXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday "Calendar in year 1919 ( Romania )" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage: Julian-1919 (Romania used Julian in 1919, when Russia adopted Gregorian).
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- May 1
- ---Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
- --- Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio – two people killed, forty injured, and one hundred and sixteen arrested
- May 3 - Weimar Republic troops and Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic
- 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
- --- Hellenic Army lands at Smyrna .
- May 17 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike
- May 19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolia n Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War Of Independence . The anniversary of this event is the official date of commemoration of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus .
- 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 is tested/confirmed by Arthur Eddington 's observation of a total Solar Eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará , Brazil . {Link without Title}
- June 2 - Several mail bombs sent to prominent figures as part of 1919 United States Anarchist Bombings
- 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 Juárez . 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 (North-West Mounted Police) fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnipeg General Strike .
- ---Admiral Ludwig Von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow , Orkney . Nine Germans died.
- ---American Winged Foot Express caught on fire over downtown Chicago , two passengers, one crewmember and ten people on the ground were killed, only two people parachuted to the ground safety. Chicago Public Library Archive
- wins the Battle of Wenden in Northern Latvia against the German Landeswehr .
- June 28 - The Treaty Of Versailles is signed, ending World War I .
- July 6 - The British Dirigible R34 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.
- Earl W. Bascom , rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada , designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard.
- 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 , becomes 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 Luxembourg
- Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.
- Marcel Tolkowsky 's '' Diamond Design'' is published.
- The International Astronomical Union is founded.
- World League Against Alcoholism established by Anti-Saloon League
The following are references to year 1919 in fiction: (unknown).
- January 1 - J. D. Salinger , American novelist
- January 5 - Hector Abhayavardhana , Sri Lankan political theorist
- January 13 - Robert Stack , American actor (d. 2003 )
- January 14 - Andy Rooney , American journalist
- January 23
- --- Hans Hass , Austrian zoologist
- --- Ernie Kovacs , American comedian (d. 1962 )
- --- Bob Paisley , British football player and manager (d. 1996 )
- January 24 - Leon Kirchner , American composer
- 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 (d. 2006 )
- --- Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister Of Greece (d. 1996 )
- February 9 - Langdon Brown Gilkey - American Christian Protestant Ecumenical Theologian (d. 2004 )
- February 11
- --- Eva Gabor , Hungarian actress (d. 1995 )
- --- Eddie Robinson , American football coach (d. 2007 )
- February 12 - Forrest Tucker , American actor (d. 1986 )
- February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford , American musician (d. 1991 )
- February 18 - Jack Palance , American actor (d. 2006 )
- February 20 - Joe Krol , Canadian football player
- February 24 - Árpád Bogsch , Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004 )
- February 26
- --- Rie Mastenbroek , Dutch swimmer (d. 2003 )
- --- Mason Adams , American character actor (d. 2005 )
- March 2 - Jennifer Jones , American actress
- March 4 - Buck Baker , American racecar driver (d. 2002 )
- 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
- --- 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 13 - Phil Tonken , American radio and television announcer (d. 2000 )
- April 19 - Merce Cunningham , American dancer and choreographer
- April 20 - Richard Hillary , Battle Of Britain Spitfire pilot, author of '' The Last Enemy '' (d. 1943 )
- April 22 - Donald J. Cram , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 1 - Dan O'Herlihy , Irish film actor (d. 2005 )
- May 3
- --- John Cullen Murphy , American comic strip artist (d. 2004 )
- --- Pete Seeger , American singer and musician
- May 7 - Eva Perón , wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (d. 1952 )
- May 8 - Lex Barker , American actor (d. 1973 )
- May 16 - Liberace , American pianist (d. 1987 )
- May 17 - Antonio Aguilar , Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007 )
- May 18 - 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 , Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997 )
- June 26 - Richard Neustadt , American political historian (d. 2003 )
- June 30 - Ed Yost , American inventor (d. 2007 )
- July 6 - Ernst Haefliger , Swiss tenor (d. 2007 )
- 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 15 - Benedict Kiely , Irish author and broadcaster (d. 2007 )
- August 25 - George Wallace , Governor of Alabama (d. 1998 )
- August 28 - Godfrey Hounsfield , English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- August 31 - Amrita Preetam , Indian poetess and author (d. 2005 )
- September 11 - Ota Sik , Czech economist and politician (d. 2004 )
- September 21 - Fazlur Rahman , Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988 )
- September 26 - Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and researcher
- 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 , American sailor (d. 1943 )
- October 16 - Kathleen Winsor , American writer (d. 2003 )
- October 18
- --- Anita O'Day , American jazz singer (d. 2006 )
- --- Pierre Elliott Trudeau , Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 2000 )
- October 22 - Doris Lessing , British writer
- October 23 - Manolis Andronikos , Greek Arceologist (d 1992 )
- October 26
- --- James E. Myers , American songwriter (d. 2001 )
- --- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah Of Iran (d. 1980 )
- November 3
- --- Jesús Blasco , Spanish comic book author (d. 1995 )
- --- Spider Jorgensen , American baseball player and coach (d. 2003 )
- 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
- January 4 - Georg Von Hertling , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1843 )
- January 6
- --- Max Heindel , Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic (b. 1865 )
- --- Theodore Roosevelt , 26th President Of The United States (b. 1858 )
- January 7 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843 )
- January 15
- --- Karl Liebknecht , German politician (executed) (b. 1871 )
- --- 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 - 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 3 - Eugen Levine , German revolutionary (b. 1883 )
- 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 - 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 9 - Eduard Müller , Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1848 )
- November 15 - Alfred Werner , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866 )
- December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter (b. 1841 )
- Margaret MacMillan, ''Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World'', 2002, Random House.
- Paula Phelan, ''1919 Misfortune's End'', 2007, ZAPmedia.
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