1919

April 6-April 7 - The Bavarian Soviet Republic is founded.
April 13 - At the Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 Indians.
April 14 - The Emperor of Austria moves to exile in Switzerland.
April 23 - The Constituent Assembly of Estonia convenes its first session.
April 25
- The Bauhaus movement is founded.
- ANZAC day is celebrated for the first time in Australia.
- Pancho Villa takes Parral in Mexico, and hangs the mayor and his two sons.
April 30 - Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.

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May

May 1
- Large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police
- Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.
May 3 - Weimar Republic troops and Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
May 4 - The May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China.
May 5 - The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris
May 9 - In Belgium a new electoral law introduced universal manhood suffrage and gave the franchise to certain classes of women.
May 15 - Winnipeg workers launch a general strike for better wages and working conditions.
May 16
- A U.S. Navy Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
- An Hellenic Army lands at Smyrna.
May 17 - A Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg General Strike.
May 19 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what was later termed the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is the official commemoration date of the Pontic Greek Genocide in Greece and Cyprus.
May 23 - The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
May 25 - Volcano Kelut erupts in Java, killing 16,000.
May 29 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested/confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.<ref>[1]</ref>
May 30 - By agreement with Great Britain, later confirmed by the League of Nations, Belgium was given the mandate over part of German East Africa (Ruanda and Urundi).

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June

June 2 - Several mail bombs are sent to prominent figures as part of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.
June 4 - Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
June 14 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight (they land at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day). [2]
June 15 - Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez. When the bullets begin to fly to the US side of the border, 2 units of the US 7th Cavalry regiment cross the border and repulse Villa's forces.
June 21
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (North-West Mounted Police) fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney; 9 Germans die.
The American Winged Foot Express catches on fire over downtown Chicago; 2 passengers, 1 crewmember and 10 people on the ground are killed; only 2 people parachute to the ground safely.<ref>Chicago Public Library Archive</ref>
June 23 - Estonian Freedom War: Estonian army wins the Battle of Cēsis in Northern Latvia against the German Landeswehr.
June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

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July

July 6 - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
July 31 - Policemen in London and Liverpool strike for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.

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August

August 11
The first NFL team for Wisconsin (The Green Bay Packers) is founded by Curly Lambeau.
In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law.
August 18 - The Bolshevik fleet, at Kronstadt near Petrograd, is destroyed by British aircraft and torpedo boats in a combined operation.
August 19 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
August 16-August 26 - First Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.
August 31 - The American Communist Party is established.

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September

September 10 - The Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria.
September 10 - September 15: The Florida Keys Hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.
The Steel strike of 1919 begins.
September 23 - Belenenses is founded.
September 27 - The last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave the fighting to the Russians.
September 28 - Omaha Riot: A lynch mob besieges the police station and courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska, and lynches alleged black rapist Will Brown.

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October

October 1 - The Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas.
October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
October 9
Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
The Boston police strike occurs.
October 13 - The Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation is signed.
October 28 - Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

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November

November 10 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ends November 12).
November 11 - The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion, and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
November 16 - Admiral Horthy conquers Budapest from Béla Kun's Soviet Republic.
November 19 - The confirmation is announced of Einstein's general relativity theory, tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin in total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919 FirstScience.
November 27 - The Treaty of Neuilly is signed between the Allies and Bulgaria.
November 28 - The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the British House of Commons, becoming on December 1 the first female MP to take a seat.
November 30 - Health officials declare that the global Spanish Flu pandemic has ended.

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December

December 5 - The Turkish Ministry of War releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service.
December 12 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, with his entourage, marches into Fiume and convinces the Italian troops to join him.
December 25 - The opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The match saw them lose 2 - 0 to St. Mirren.
December 30 - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.

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Undated

Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard.
Les Champs Magnetiques, the first automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault.
XWA (now CFCF), in Montreal, Quebec, becomes the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.
Various strikes in USA: Strike of US railroad workers; Longshoreman's strike; The Great Steel Strike; General strike in Seattle, Washington.
Female suffrage is enacted in Germany and Luxembourg.
Murderer Henri Désiré Landru is arrested.
Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design is published.
The International Astronomical Union is founded.
World League Against Alcoholism established by Anti-Saloon League

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Ongoing

Åland crisis
Ethnic cleansing in Turkey: The Armenian Genocide
Assyrian Genocide (1914–1922)
Pontic Greek Genocide (1916–1923).

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Births

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January-February

January 1 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
January 5 - Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan political theorist
January 13 - Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
January 14 - Andy Rooney, American journalist
January 23
- Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist
- Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
- Bob Paisley, British football player and manager (d. 1996)
January 24 - Leon Kirchner, American composer
January 25 - Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
- Eula Beal, American contralto

January 26 - Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician and actor (d. 1972)
January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
February 5
- Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006)
- Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996)
February 9 - Langdon Brown Gilkey - American Christian Protestant ecumenical theologian (d. 2004)
February 11
- Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (d. 1995)
- Eddie Robinson, American football coach (d. 2007)
February 12 - Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986)
February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
February 18 - Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
February 20 - Joe Krol, Canadian football player
February 24 - Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian international civil servant (d. 2004)
February 26
- Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (d. 2003)
- Mason Adams, American character actor (d. 2005)

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March-April

March 2 - Jennifer Jones, American actress
March 4 - Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)
March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
March 24 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
March 29 - Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
April 1 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 8 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
April 13 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
April 19 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
April 20 - Richard Hillary, British pilot and author (d. 1943)
April 22 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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May-June

May 1 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish film actor (d. 2005)
May 3
- John Cullen Murphy, American comic strip artist (d. 2004)
- Pete Seeger, American singer and musician
May 7 - Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
May 8 - Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
May 16 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
May 17 - Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2007)
May 18 - Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (d. 1991)
May 20 - George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
May 23 - Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
June 4 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004)
June 5 - Richard Scarry, American children's author (d. 1994)
June 19 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
June 21 - Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)
June 26 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (d. 2003)
June 30 - Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)