Major Events
- Jan 5 German Workers' Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi)
- Jan 16 The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol, is ratified by a majority of US states
- Mar 23 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.
- May 19 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Black Sea coast, beginning the Turkish War of Independence
- Jun 28 Treaty of Versailles, ending WWI and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France
- Aug 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois
- Oct 7 KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij), Royal Dutch Airlines, one of the oldest existing airline) is founded in Amsterdam
- Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
- Nov 28 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons (to take her seat)
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1919 in Music
- Oct 26 Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen's Hall, London
1919 in Sport
- Oct 9 Baseball World Series: Cincinnati Reds beat Chicago White Sox, 10-5 at Comiskey Park for a 5-3 series victory; due to 'Black Sox Scandal' last WS to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place
Mordecai Anielewicz
Malcolm Forbes
George Wallace
Pierre Trudeau
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Desmond Doss
Jennifer Jones
Strother Martin
Eva Perón
Liberace
Tom Harmon
Nat King Cole
Pete Seeger
Jackie Robinson
Allie Reynolds
Edmund Hillary
Fausto Coppi
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Fun Fact About 1919
American stuntman and parachute developer Leslie Irvin (23) makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump from a plane above US the Army Air Service's McCook Field near Dayton, Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt
Frank Winfield Woolworth
John William Strutt
Andrew Carnegie
Laurence Doherty
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Articles About 1919
Prohibition is Ratified
The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established prohibitionJanuary 16
Scuttling at Scapa Flow
German Navy ship SMS Bayern after being scuttled on the orders of German Admiral Ludwig von ReuterJune 21
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles is signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, ParisJune 28
Famous Weddings in 1919
- Feb 15 Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon (27) in Nice, France
- May 31 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
- Jun 2 Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (40) weds his cousin Elsa Lowenthal (43)
Famous Divorces in 1919
- Feb 14 German theoretical physicist Physicist Albert Einstein (39) divorces Serbian physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić (43) after 16 years of marriage
- Mar 1 Actress Gloria Swanson (19) divorces actor Wallace Beery (31) after 2 years of marriage
- Apr 2 American world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey (23) divorces Maxine Gates after 2 years of marriage
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Claude Monet
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