1919 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1916 1917 1918 – 1919 – 1920 1921 1922 |
1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Events
- January 15 – Great Molasses Flood in Boston kills 21 people.
- January 16 – Prohibition begins in the United States.
- June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
- Charles Strite invents the toaster.
- Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Births
- May 3 - Pete Seeger, American folk musician (d. 2014)
- May 7 – Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
- July 20 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer (d. 2008)
- September 26 - Matilde Camus, Spanish poet (d. 2012)
- October 3 - James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize winning Economist (d. 2013)
- October 18 – Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
- October 26 - Edward Brooke, American politician
Deaths
- Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau – French painter
- January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
- April 10 – Emiliano Zapata
- May 6 – L. Frank Baum, American writer
- August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish businessman
- October 7 – Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
- October 13 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize winner
Images for kids
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January 1: Iolaire sinks.
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David Kirkwood being detained by police during the Battle of George Square
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"The Big Four" during the Paris Peace Conference (from left to right, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson).
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Romanian troops entering Budapest
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Friedrich Ebert becomes president in Weimar, Germany
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Carole Landis
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Jeanne Cagney
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Melchora Aquino
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Yakov Sverdlov
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik
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Louis Botha
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Victorino de la Plaza
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