Page 4: Historical Events In 1919

Mar 02   Eddie Lawrence, comedian   

Mar 02   inaugural congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin   

Mar 03   Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike   

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

Mar 05   Jozef Surzynski, composer, dies at 67.   

Mar 05   Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC.   

Mar 06   NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie.   

Mar 07   Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier.   

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

Mar 08   Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88   

Mar 08   Ivor Keys, musician/teacher.   

Mar 11   General strike in Germany, crushed.   

Mar 11   Harald Fryklof, composer, dies at 36.   

Mar 11   Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader.   

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

Mar 14   Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orch leader (Polly Bergen Show).   

Mar 15   American Legion forms (Paris France).   

Mar 15   American Legion forms (Paris).   

Mar 15   American Legion founded   

Mar 15   John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World).   

Mar 16   Erno Kiraly, composer   

Mar 16   Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg.   

Mar 16   Sigurd von Koch, composer, dies at 39   

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

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

Mar 17   Hank Sauer, baseball player (NL MVP 1952)   

Mar 17   Nat King Cole, Popular American singer and pianist is born   

Mar 18   Laila Schou Nilsen, Norway, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1936).   

Mar 18   Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City   

Mar 18   Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City   

Mar 21   Geoffrey Pinnington, journalist.   

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

Mar 23   Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted   

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   

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Jan 01   Bernard drukker: Dutch organist/pianist/orch leader (devil's wheel)   

Jan 01   Carole landis: Fairchild wi, actress (one million bc, topper returns)   

Jan 01   J[erome] d[avid] salinger: Nyc, novelist (catcher in the rye)   

Jan 03   Jesse white: Buf ny, actor (bedtime for bonzo, million dollar mermaid)   

Jan 04   Al "jazbo" collins: Nyc, dj (tonight! america after dark)   

Jan 04   Havelock henry trevor hudson: Underwriter (lloyd's of london)   

Jan 05   Severino gazzelloni: Italian flautist    

Jan 06   Sylvia syms: Us singer (hello dolly, dream girl, them there eyes)   

Jan 01   William w campbell: Canadian poet (ian of the orcades),    

Jan 04   Georg von hertling: Chancellor of germany (b. 1843)   

Jan 06   Theodore roosevelt: 26th pres (1901-09),    

Jan 08   Peter altenberg: Writer,    

Jan 15   Karl liebknecht: Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47   

Jan 16   Jaroslav jeremias: Composer,    

Jan 18   John c f: Son of english king george v,   

Jan 21   Gojong of joseon: Emperor of korea (b. 1852)