1919 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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.

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Events
Births
Deaths
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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

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In Spanish: 1919 para niños

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