What historic events happened in 1919?

Answer 1

Jan 1st - Belorussian SSR established

Jan 1st - Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company.

Jan 2nd - Anti-British uprising in Ireland

Jan 2nd - Lithuania gains independence

Jan 5th - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

Jan 5th - Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege

Jan 11th - 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed

Jan 11th - Romania annexes Transylvania

Jan 13th - Dutch Soccer team OSV forms

Jan 14th - John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge MCQuade buy NY Giants

Jan 15th - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21

Jan 15th - Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres

Jan 15th - Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland

Jan 15th - Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires

Jan 15th - W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC

Jan 15th - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.

Jan 16th - Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th

Jan 18th - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France

Jan 18th - Bentley Motors Limited is founded.

Jan 19th - "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston

Jan 21st - Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland

Jan 25th - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

Jan 29th - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)

Jan 30th - Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army

Jan 31st - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.

Feb 1st - Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert

Feb 2nd - Monarchist riot in Portugal

Feb 3rd - Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC

Feb 3rd - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

Feb 3rd - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

Feb 4th - City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown

Feb 5th - NL pres John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers

Feb 6th - 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike

Feb 11th - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany

Feb 14th - United Parcel Service forms

Feb 14th - The Polish-Soviet War begins.

Feb 15th - American Legion organizes in Paris

Feb 18th - Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals

Feb 19th - Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)

Feb 20th - French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt

Feb 21st - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria

Feb 21st - Revolutionary strike in Barcelona

Feb 23rd - Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini

Feb 25th - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

Feb 25th - Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)

Feb 26th - Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine

Feb 26th - Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona

Feb 27th - 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"

Feb 27th - American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)

Mar 1st - Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin

Mar 1st - March 1st Movement begins in Korea.

Mar 2nd - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin

Mar 3rd - 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC

Mar 3rd - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

Mar 5th - Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC

Mar 6th - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie

Mar 11th - General strike in Germany, crushed

Mar 12th - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

Mar 12th - George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC

Mar 15th - American Legion forms (Paris)

Mar 16th - Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg

Mar 17th - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages

Mar 18th - Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City

Mar 23rd - Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted

Mar 23rd - Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy

Mar 23rd - Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms

Mar 29th - Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) & Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic

Mar 30th - Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf

Mar 30th - Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

Mar 30th - Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or," premieres in Paris

Mar 31st - Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann

Apr 3rd - Austria expels all Habsburgers

Apr 5th - Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann

Apr 5th - Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana

Apr 5th - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews

Apr 6th - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a General Strike.

Apr 7th - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks

Apr 10th - Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.

Apr 11th - The International Labour Organization is founded.

Apr 12th - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages

Apr 13th - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India

Apr 13th - British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)

Apr 13th - The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

Apr 19th - 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4

Apr 19th - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day

Apr 19th - Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall

Apr 19th - Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)

Apr 20th - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

Apr 23rd - Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season

Apr 28th - 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)

Apr 30th - Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings

May 1st - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

May 2nd - 1st US air passenger service starts

May 3rd - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain

May 3rd - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)

May 4th - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)

May 4th - FVC soccer team forms

May 4th - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3

May 6th - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa

May 8th - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane

May 8th - Appingedam soccer team forms

May 8th - Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day.

May 10th - 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8

May 10th - Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed

May 11th - Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie

May 12th - Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15

May 14th - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53

May 14th - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta

May 15th - Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0

May 17th - War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.

May 19th - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian 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 20th - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550

May 25th - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap

May 27th - 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days

May 28th - Armenia declares it's Independence

May 29th - Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster

May 29th - Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington

May 29th - The Republic of Prekmurje founded

May 31st - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)

May 31st - NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic

Jun 1st - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden

Jun 2nd - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)

Jun 3rd - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks

Jun 4th - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill

Jun 4th - US marines invade Costa Rica

Jun 6th - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910

Jun 6th - Finland declares war on Bolsheviks

Jun 6th - The Republic of Prekmurje ends.

Jun 7th - Sette giugno: Riot in Malta; four are killed.

Jun 9th - General steel strike in France

Jun 9th - Red Army captures Ufa

Jun 11th - 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass

Jun 11th - 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown

Jun 12th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education

Jun 14th - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld

Jun 15th - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland

Jun 17th - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres

Jun 20th - German govt of Scheideman resigns

Jun 20th - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria

Jun 20th - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

Jun 21st - Bauer forms German govt

Jun 21st - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet

Jun 23rd - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Assn (UNIA) incorporates

Jun 23rd - Nitti govt forms in Italy

Jun 25th - 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)

Jun 25th - Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg

Jun 26th - NY Daily News begins publishing

Jun 28th - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees

Jun 28th - Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence

Jun 28th - Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France