1919 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1919?
- January 11, 1919 – Romania annexes Transylvania.
- January 18, 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- February 1, 1919 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- February 26, 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
- March 23, 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- April 10, 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- April 13, 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
- May 27, 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
- June 2, 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- June 21, 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.
- 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.
- June 28, 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
- July 11, 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- September 12, 1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- September 18, 1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
- October 7, 1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
- October 9, 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 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 26, 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
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