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Events on the year of 1919 in history

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01 Jan 1919 Belorussian SSR established
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02 Jan 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland
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02 Jan 1919 Lithuania gains independence
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03 Jan 1919 At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
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05 Jan 1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
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05 Jan 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
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05 Jan 1919 The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
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07 Jan 1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
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11 Jan 1919 Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
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11 Jan 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
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11 Jan 1919 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
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13 Jan 1919 Dutch Soccer team OSV forms
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14 Jan 1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy New York Giants
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15 Jan 1919 Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
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15 Jan 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
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15 Jan 1919 W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room" premieres in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
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15 Jan 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" premieres
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15 Jan 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
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15 Jan 1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21
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16 Jan 1919 Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
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16 Jan 1919 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th
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18 Jan 1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
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18 Jan 1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
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18 Jan 1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
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18 Jan 1919 WWI Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
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19 Jan 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston
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19 Jan 1919 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 meters high x 25 meters wide kills dozens, Boston
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21 Jan 1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
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21 Jan 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
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22 Jan 1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
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25 Jan 1919 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
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29 Jan 1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition)
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30 Jan 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with US Army
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31 Jan 1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
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01 Feb 1919 Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
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02 Feb 1919 Monarchist riot in Portugal
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03 Feb 1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
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03 Feb 1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
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05 Feb 1919 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers
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05 Feb 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
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06 Feb 1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
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06 Feb 1919 The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
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11 Feb 1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
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14 Feb 1919 The Polish–Soviet War begins.
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14 Feb 1919 United Parcel Service forms
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15 Feb 1919 American Legion organizes in Paris
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17 Feb 1919 The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
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18 Feb 1919 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals
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19 Feb 1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W E B Du Bois (Paris)
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20 Feb 1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
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21 Feb 1919 German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
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21 Feb 1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss incorporation of Austria
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21 Feb 1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
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23 Feb 1919 Fascist Party forms in Italy by Benito Mussolini
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23 Feb 1919 Benito Mussolini founds the Facist party of Italy
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
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25 Feb 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1
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25 Feb 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
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26 Feb 1919 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine
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26 Feb 1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park.
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26 Feb 1919 Acadia National Park established (as Lafayette National Park), Maine
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26 Feb 1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
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27 Feb 1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)
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27 Feb 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "The Planets"
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27 Feb 1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
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01 Mar 1919 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
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01 Mar 1919 March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
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02 Mar 1919 1st Congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
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02 Mar 1919 The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
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03 Mar 1919 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
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03 Mar 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
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06 Mar 1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
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11 Mar 1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
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12 Mar 1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
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12 Mar 1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit" premieres in New York NY
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15 Mar 1919 American Legion forms (Paris France)
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16 Mar 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung" premieres in Hamburg
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17 Mar 1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day & minimum wages
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18 Mar 1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
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18 Mar 1919 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City
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21 Mar 1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
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23 Mar 1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
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23 Mar 1919 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
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23 Mar 1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
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23 Mar 1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
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29 Mar 1919 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic
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29 Mar 1919 Stanley Cup: Montr
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30 Mar 1919 Belgian Army occupies D
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30 Mar 1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
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30 Mar 1919 Paul Claudel's "T
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31 Mar 1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
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01 Apr 1919 The Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
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03 Apr 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
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05 Apr 1919 Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann
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05 Apr 1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
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05 Apr 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
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06 Apr 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
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07 Apr 1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
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10 Apr 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
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11 Apr 1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
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12 Apr 1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
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13 Apr 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
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13 Apr 1919 Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
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13 Apr 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
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13 Apr 1919 The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
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13 Apr 1919 Amritsar Massacre - British Army fires on hundreds of Indian Nationalist rioters in India
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16 Apr 1919 Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
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16 Apr 1919 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
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19 Apr 1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
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19 Apr 1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
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19 Apr 1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Massachusetts in 2:29:13.4
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19 Apr 1919 Andr
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19 Apr 1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
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19 Apr 1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
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20 Apr 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
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23 Apr 1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season
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28 Apr 1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
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30 Apr 1919 Philadelphia Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings
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01 May 1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
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02 May 1919 1st US air passenger service starts
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03 May 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
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04 May 1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
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04 May 1919 FVC soccer team forms
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04 May 1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
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04 May 1919 May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
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06 May 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa
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08 May 1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
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08 May 1919 Appingedam soccer team forms
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08 May 1919 Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
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10 May 1919 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8
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10 May 1919 Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
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11 May 1919 Yankees' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
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12 May 1919 Yankees & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
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14 May 1919 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
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14 May 1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
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15 May 1919 Greek invasion of Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
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15 May 1919 The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
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15 May 1919 Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
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16 May 1919 A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
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19 May 1919 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
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20 May 1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
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25 May 1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
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27 May 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
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27 May 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
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27 May 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
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28 May 1919 Armenia declares it's independence
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29 May 1919 Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
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29 May 1919 The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
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29 May 1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
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29 May 1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
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31 May 1919 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
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31 May 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
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01 Jun 1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
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02 Jun 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
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02 Jun 1919 Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
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03 Jun 1919 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks
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04 Jun 1919 US marines invade Costa Rica
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04 Jun 1919 Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
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06 Jun 1919 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910
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06 Jun 1919 Finland declares war on bolsheviks
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06 Jun 1919 The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
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07 Jun 1919 Sette giugno: Four people are killed in a riot in Malta.
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09 Jun 1919 General steel strike in France
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09 Jun 1919 Red Army captures Ufa
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11 Jun 1919 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn Country Club - Massachusetts
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11 Jun 1919 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 and Trip Crown
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11 Jun 1919 Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
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11 Jun 1919 Sir Barton becomes 1st horse to win the Triple Crown
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12 Jun 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
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14 Jun 1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
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14 Jun 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
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15 Jun 1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
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15 Jun 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
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17 Jun 1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
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20 Jun 1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
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20 Jun 1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
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21 Jun 1919 Bauer forms German government
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21 Jun 1919 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
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21 Jun 1919 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
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21 Jun 1919 Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
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21 Jun 1919 Germans scuttle their own fleet
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23 Jun 1919 Nitti government forms in Italy
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23 Jun 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.
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25 Jun 1919 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
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25 Jun 1919 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
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26 Jun 1919 New York Daily News begins publishing
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26 Jun 1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
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28 Jun 1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against New York Yankees
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28 Jun 1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WWI signed in France
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28 Jun 1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
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28 Jun 1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
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01 Jul 1919 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
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01 Jul 1919 Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen
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04 Jul 1919 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms
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04 Jul 1919 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship
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05 Jul 1919 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97)
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05 Jul 1919 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times
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06 Jul 1919 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
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06 Jul 1919 William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs President
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06 Jul 1919 The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
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07 Jul 1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
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08 Jul 1919 President Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference
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10 Jul 1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
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10 Jul 1919 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
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11 Jul 1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day / No Sunday work
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11 Jul 1919 The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
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13 Jul 1919 Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
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13 Jul 1919 The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
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13 Jul 1919 Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
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17 Jul 1919 Finland adopts constitution
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17 Jul 1919 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
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19 Jul 1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
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21 Jul 1919 The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people.
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21 Jul 1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
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24 Jul 1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)
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27 Jul 1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
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28 Jul 1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
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31 Jul 1919 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
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31 Jul 1919 German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
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01 Aug 1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
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01 Aug 1919 Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek
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06 Aug 1919 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
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06 Aug 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
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10 Aug 1919 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane
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11 Aug 1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
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11 Aug 1919 The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
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11 Aug 1919 Green Bay Packers football club founded
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13 Aug 1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
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13 Aug 1919 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
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14 Aug 1919 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
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14 Aug 1919 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
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18 Aug 1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
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19 Aug 1919 Afghanistan declares independence from the UK
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20 Aug 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 average)
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23 Aug 1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
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24 Aug 1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
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25 Aug 1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
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28 Aug 1919 General John Smuts becomes Premier of South Africa
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31 Aug 1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
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31 Aug 1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
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31 Aug 1919 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago
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31 Aug 1919 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
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02 Sep 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
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02 Sep 1919 Italy agress to general voting right / proportional representation
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02 Sep 1919 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
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04 Sep 1919 39th US Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63)
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04 Sep 1919 British intervene in Petrograd
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04 Sep 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.
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10 Sep 1919 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WWI soldiers
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10 Sep 1919 Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
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10 Sep 1919 Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
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10 Sep 1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0
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11 Sep 1919 U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
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12 Sep 1919 Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers' Party (later the Nazi Party).
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16 Sep 1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
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16 Sep 1919 The American Legion is incorporated.
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16 Sep 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
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18 Sep 1919 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage
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18 Sep 1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
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18 Sep 1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
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18 Sep 1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
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20 Sep 1919 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers Country Club - Roslyn, New York
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21 Sep 1919 33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62)
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22 Sep 1919 The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
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22 Sep 1919 Steel strike begins in US
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24 Sep 1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
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25 Sep 1919 President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
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25 Sep 1919 Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
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26 Sep 1919 US President Wilson hit by a heart attack
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27 Sep 1919 British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
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27 Sep 1919 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members
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27 Sep 1919 Democratic National Committee votes to admit women
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27 Sep 1919 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs
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28 Sep 1919 Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
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28 Sep 1919 Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1
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01 Oct 1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
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02 Oct 1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
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03 Oct 1919 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
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03 Oct 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day
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03 Oct 1919 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
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05 Oct 1919 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition
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06 Oct 1919 Stambuliski becomes Premier of Bulgaria
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06 Oct 1919 White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
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07 Oct 1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM)
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07 Oct 1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
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07 Oct 1919 KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
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09 Oct 1919 Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
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10 Oct 1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna
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11 Oct 1919 1st transcontinental air race ends
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13 Oct 1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
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15 Oct 1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
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17 Oct 1919 RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America.
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17 Oct 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
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19 Oct 1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
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19 Oct 1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as the black sox scandal as 7 White Sox throw the series
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26 Oct 1919 B C Hilliams musical "Buddies, " premieres in New York City
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27 Oct 1919 US Congress sign Volstead Act
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27 Oct 1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
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28 Oct 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.
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28 Oct 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
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30 Oct 1919 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of the spitball
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07 Nov 1919 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
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10 Nov 1919 1st observance of National Book Week
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10 Nov 1919 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
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11 Nov 1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political / business views
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12 Nov 1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
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14 Nov 1919 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
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15 Nov 1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
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19 Nov 1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
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20 Nov 1919 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az
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22 Nov 1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
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22 Nov 1919 Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
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27 Nov 1919 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies and Bulgaria
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28 Nov 1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
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28 Nov 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
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01 Dec 1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
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01 Dec 1919 Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
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01 Dec 1919 The first issue of Diário de Noite is published from Goa.
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03 Dec 1919 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
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10 Dec 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Wilson
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10 Dec 1919 National League votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
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10 Dec 1919 New York, Boston, & Chicago, oppose American League resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
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11 Dec 1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise AL
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13 Dec 1919 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
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15 Dec 1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo" premieres in New York NY
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15 Dec 1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
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17 Dec 1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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17 Dec 1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
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19 Dec 1919 American Meteorological Society found
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20 Dec 1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
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20 Dec 1919 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
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21 Dec 1919 American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
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21 Dec 1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
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22 Dec 1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
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22 Dec 1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
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23 Dec 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
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23 Dec 1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
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23 Dec 1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
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26 Dec 1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
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26 Dec 1919 Yankees & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
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27 Dec 1919 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
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30 Dec 1919 Lincoln's Inn in London, England, UK admits its first female bar student.
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