1919

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1 Events

Events

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 with Spartacist League in the forefront
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 end the general strike - Spartacus week is over
January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster: Wave of molasses sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150
January 15 - Ignace 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 D�il �ireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin. It is from this meeting that the Irish state dates its existence.
January 25 - The League of Nations is founded

May 1 – Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
May 1 - In Cleveland, police and army confront the May Day parade and drive into crowd – 2 dead, one hundred injured
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 25 – Volcano Kloet 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] (http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/alcock.htm)

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 policemen 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 19 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
August 31 - American Communist Party is established
September 27 - Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians
October 1 - Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 9 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
October 9 - Boston police strike
October 28 - Prohibition begins: The United States Congress 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 28 - The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, becoming the first female member of that institution (she took her seat on December 1).

December 1 – Nancy Astor becomes the first female member of the British House of Commons when she replaces her dead husband
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

The �land 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, is 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.
First Palestine national congress meets in Jerusalem, rejects the Balfour Declaration and demands independence for Palestine
Female suffrage in Germany and Luxemburg
Henri Desire Landru captured
Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design is published.