1919

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1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes

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Events

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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 turn into attempted communist revolution
January 9 — Spartacus revolutionary council folds – Friedrich Ebert orders Freikorps into action
January 10-January 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 — 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 and 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 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 23 — The Uprising of Khotin breaks out in Romania.
January 25 — The League of Nations is founded

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February-April

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 14 — Polish-Soviet War begins
February 25 — Oregon places a 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/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 first 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-April 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 23 — Constituent Assembly of Estonia convenes to its first session
April 25 — Bauhaus movement founded
April 25 — ANZAC day is celebrated for the first time in Australia.
April 25 — Pancho Villa takes Parral in Mexico — hangs mayor and his two sons

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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.
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]
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.