1919 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1919?
- January 7, 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- January 15, 1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
- January 18, 1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- January 22, 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- January 25, 1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
- February 1, 1919 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 1919 – The Polish-Soviet War begins.
- March 1, 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
- March 21, 1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
- April 6, 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- April 16, 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of “prayer and fasting” in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
- May 8, 1919 – Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day.
- May 29, 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded
- June 11, 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.
- July 11, 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- July 31, 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
- September 12, 1919 – Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
- 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.
- December 1, 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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