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Date	Event
January 5, 1919	The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
January 7, 1919	Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
January 15, 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.
January 15, 1919	Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
January 16, 1919	Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
January 18, 1919	World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
January 18, 1919	Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
January 21, 1919	A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of the Irish War of Independence takes place.
January 22, 1919	Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
January 28, 1919	The Order of the White Rose of Finland is established by Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, the regent of the Kingdom of Finland.[11]
January 31, 1919	The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
February 5, 1919	Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
February 6, 1919	The American Legion is founded.
February 6, 1919	The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
February 11, 1919	Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
February 14, 1919	The Polish–Soviet War begins.
February 17, 1919	The Ukrainian People's Republic asks the Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
February 21, 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.
February 26, 1919	President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
March 1, 1919	March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
March 2, 1919	The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
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.
March 23, 1919	In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
March 25, 1919	The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust.
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 Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
April 16, 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.
April 16, 1919	Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
April 23, 1919	The Estonian Constituent Assembly was held in Estonia, which marked the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu.
May 1, 1919	German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
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 8, 1919	Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
May 11, 1919	Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
May 15, 1919	The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
May 15, 1919	Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
May 16, 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.
May 19, 1919	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
May 27, 1919	The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
May 29, 1919	Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
June 1, 1919	Prohibition comes into force in Finland.
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 7, 1919	Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
June 11, 1919	Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.
June 14, 1919	John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
June 15, 1919	John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
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.
June 21, 1919	Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at 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 Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
June 28, 1919	The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
July 6, 1919	The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
July 11, 1919	The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
July 13, 1919	The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
July 17, 1919	The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the Day of Democracy (Kansanvallan päivä) in Finland.
July 21, 1919	The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
July 23, 1919	Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University of Ljubljana
July 27, 1919	The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
August 8, 1919	The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
August 11, 1919	Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
September 4, 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.
September 10, 1919	The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
September 11, 1919	United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
September 18, 1919	Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
September 22, 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.
September 28, 1919	Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
October 3, 1919	Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
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	The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.
October 16, 1919	Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
October 17, 1919	Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
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.
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 23 U.S. cities.
November 11, 1919	The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
November 11, 1919	Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
November 28, 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.)
December 1, 1919	Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
December 3, 1919	After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
December 21, 1919	American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
December 23, 1919	Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
December 26, 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.