1919 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1919?
- January 3, 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal 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.
- January 7, 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
- February 1, 1919 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
- April 10, 1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
- May 4, 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.
- 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.
- June 2, 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- June 4, 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.
- June 21, 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- August 19, 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
- September 10, 1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
- September 11, 1919 – U.S. Marines invade Honduras.
- September 16, 1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
- 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.
- November 10, 1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
- December 17, 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- December 21, 1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
- 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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