1919

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Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924

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Events

• January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
• January 11 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
• January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people
• February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• May 29 - Einstein's theory of General Relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun
• The islands of Åland vote for a return to Swedish rule in a referendum.
• Les Champs Magnetiques, the first automatic book, is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault.
• December 30 - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first women bar student.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1919 in film
• 1919 in literature
  • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  • The American Language by H. L. Mencken
• 1919 in music
• 1919 in sports
  • The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds

Births

• January 13 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
• January 13 - Robert Stack, actor
• January 14 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
• January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player
• February 11 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
• February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
• May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
• July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor
• October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
• October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
• November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet inventor

Deaths

• January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt
• December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Johannes Stark
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Medicine - Jules Bordet
• Literature - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
• Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson