Historical Events In 1919

Mar 30 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf

Mar 02 First congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin

Mar 18 Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City

Mar 17 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages

Mar 03 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

Mar 15 American Legion forms (Paris France)

Mar 23 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms

Mar 23 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted

Mar 17 The birth of Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist

Mar 21 Navy installs and tests Sperry gyrocompass, in first instance of test of aircraft gyrocompass

Mar 31 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann

Mar 07 The Minister of Railways is appointed as receiver for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.

Mar 11 General strike in Germany, crushed

Mar 23 Benito Mussolini, an Italian World War I veteran and publisher of Socialist newspapers, breaks with the Italian Socialists and establishes the nationalist Fasci di Combattimento

Mar 03 First international air mail service from US, Seattle WA-Victoria BC

Mar 01 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin

Mar 30 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act

Mar 12 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

Mar 15 American Legion founded

Aug 31 Petlyura's Ukranian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group

Aug 31 Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago

Aug 23 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune

Aug 25 Commercial air passenger service begins between England and Paris.

Aug 08 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence

Aug 10 Ukranian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukrane

Aug 06 The first air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)

Aug 13 Australia's first demonstration of wireless telephony given by Ernest Fisk to illustrate a lecture in Sydney.

Aug 29 Prince Edward Island removes ban on automobiles after several years of no cars.

Aug 25 The first scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)

Aug 13 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)

Aug 14 The first plane flight between Montreal and Quebec; takes 5 hours, now it takes the same time but we now include the time to get to and from the airports

Sep 11 US marines invade Honduras

Sep 02 Communist Party of America organized in Chicago

Sep 10 The Austrian Empire ends with the signing of the Treaty of Saint Germain

Sep 10 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing &25,000 WW I soldiers

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