1919
year
1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.
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 |
EventsEdit
- 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
BirthsEdit
- January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks (d. 1972)
- 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 (d. 2015)
DeathsEdit
- 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