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1919
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Events
- The Paris Peace Conference
- XWA (now CFCF),in Montreal, Quebec is the first public radio station in North America to go the air.
- January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
- January 11 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
- January - Spartacist uprising in Germany: an unsuccessful attempt at a communist coup.
- January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people
- 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 Dáil Éireann 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
- February 1 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
- February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
- February 23 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
- February 25 - Oregon places a 1 cent per gallon 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 2 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow
- March 15 - The American Legion forms in Paris
- March 23 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- April 13 - At the Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 indians.
- 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 29 - Einstein's theory of General Relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun
- June 14 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight
- July 6 - The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
- August 11 - In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law.
- August 19 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- October 1 - Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
- October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partiallyparalyzed.
- October 9 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
- 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 - American-born Lady Nancy 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).
- 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.
- December 30 - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.
Year in topic
Births
- January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
- January 13 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
- January 13 - Robert Stack, actor
- January 14 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
- January 23 - Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
- January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
- January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
- January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)
- January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
- February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
- February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
- February 11 -Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
- February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
- February 12 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
- February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
- March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
- March 11 - Mercer Ellington, musician, composer (d. 1996)
- March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, actor (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Nat King Cole, singer (d. 1965)
- March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
- March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
- May 7 - Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
- May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
- May 16 - Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
- May 16 - Gisela Uhlen, actress
- May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
- May 20 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991)
- May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress, dancer
- June 5 - Richard Scarry, children's author
- June 26 - Richard Neustadt, political historian
- July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor
- July 20 - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
- October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
- October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
- November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - inventor, designer of the Ak-47
- November 18 - Andrée Borrel, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
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