1919 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1919?
- February 1, 1919 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- February 11, 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
- April 10, 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- May 15, 1919 – Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
- May 16, 1919 – A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- May 27, 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- May 29, 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded
- June 15, 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- June 23, 1919 – Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
- July 11, 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- July 13, 1919 – The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
- July 21, 1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
- August 11, 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
- August 19, 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
- September 4, 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
- October 9, 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- October 28, 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- November 7, 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
- December 30, 1919 – Lincoln’s Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
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