1 : 1919
2 : Events
3 : Year in topic
4 : Births
5 : Deaths
6 : Nobel Prizes
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
- The Paris Peace Conference
- XWA (now CFCF), in Montreal, Quebec, is the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.
- January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company
- January 11 - Romania annexes Transylvania.
- January - Spartacist uprising in Germany: an unsuccessful attempt at a communist coup.
- January 15 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people
- January 15 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland
- January 16 - The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States
- January 18 - World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France.
- January 18 - Bentley Motors is founded
- January 21 - the First Dáil Éireann meets in the Mansion House in Dublin. It is from this meeting that the Irish state dates its existence.
- January 25 - The League of Nations is founded
- February 1 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).
- February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
- February 23 - Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.
- February 25 - Oregon places a 1 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- February 26 - An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
- March 1 - March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
- March 2 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow
- March 15 - The American Legion forms in Paris
- March 23 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- April 13 - At the Amritsar Massacre, British and Gurkha troops massacre 379 indians.
- April 25 - Anzac day was celbrated for the first time in Australia.
- May 4 - May Fourth Movement opposes foreign colonizers in China
- May 15 - Winnipeg launches general strike for better wages and working conditions.
- May 16 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight
- May 17 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose Winnipeg General Strike
- May 29 - Einstein's theory of general relativity confirmed by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total eclipse of the Sun
- June 14 - John Alcock and Arthur Brown depart St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight
- July 6 - The British dirigible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
- August 11 - In Germany, the Weimar Constitution is passed into law.
- August 19 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- October 1 - Elaine Race Riot breaks out in Arkansas
- October 2 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
- October 9 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
- October 28 - Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
- November - At end of month health officials declare the global Spanish Flu Pandemic over
- November 10 - The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (convention ended on November 12).
- November 28 - The American-born Lady Astor is elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, becoming the first female member of that institution (she took her seat on December 1).
Year in topic
Births
- January 1 - J. D. Salinger, novelist
- January 13 - Army Archerd, Hollywood journalist
- January 13 - Robert Stack, actor
- January 14 - Andy Rooney, television journalist
- January 23 - Hans Haas, zoologist and underwater scientist
- January 23 - Ernie Kovacs, comedian (d. 1962)
- January 25 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer
- January 27 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)
- January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player (d. 1972)
- February 5 - Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician (d. 1996)
- February 5 - Red Buttons, actor
- February 11 -Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
- February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
- February 12 - Forrest Tucker, actor (d. 1986)
- February 13 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician (d. 1991)
- March 2 - Jennifer Jones, actress
- March 11 - Mercer Ellington, musician, composer (d. 1996)
- March 15 - Lawrence Tierney, actor (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Nat King Cole, singer (d. 1965)
- March 24 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
- March 30 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor (d. 1996)
- May 3 - Pete Seeger, singer and musician
- May 7 - Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's President Juan Peron (d. 1952)
- May 8 - Lex Barker, actor (d. 1973)
- May 16 - Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
- May 16 - Gisela Uhlen, actress
- May 18 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (d. 1991)
- May 20 - George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991)
- May 23 - Betty Garrett, actress, dancer
- June 5 - Richard Scarry, children's author
- June 26 - Richard Neustadt, political historian
- July 7 - Jon Pertwee, actor
- July 20 - Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
- September 27 - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (d. 1986)
- October 1 - member of the Romanian Academy, president of the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania
- October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
- October 22 - Doris Lessing, British writer
- October 26 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran
- November 10 - Mikhail Kalashnikov - inventor, designer of the Ak-47
- November 18 - Andrée Borrel, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
Deaths
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt
- January 15 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
- January 18- His Royal Highness The Prince John, son of George V and Queen Mary
- February 17 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada
- April 4 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist
- April 15 - Jane Delano, founder, American Red Cross Nursing Service
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum, writer
- August 9 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer
- October 7 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
- October 18 - Viscount William Astor, British financier and statesman
- December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a French painter.
Nobel Prizes
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