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next turn year 1919

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1919 May 1 A large left-wing demonstration in France leads to a violent confrontation with the police. May Day Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.

May 3 – Amānullāh Khān attacks the British government in India. May 4

The League of Red Cross Societies is formed in Paris. May 6 – The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins.

May 8 – Edward George Honey proposes a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.

May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.)

May 9 – In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage and gives the franchise to certain classes of women.

May 14 – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first Chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.[16]

May 15

A law providing for full women's suffrage in the Netherlands is introduced.

Winnipeg general strike: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada launch a strike for better wages and working conditions.

May 17 – The Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg general strike. May 19

Volcano Kelud erupts in Java, killing about 5,000.

May 23 – The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

May 27 Fyodor Raskolnikov is exchanged for 14 British prisoners of war.

Siege of Spin Boldak (Third Anglo-Afghan War): This is the last time the British Army uses an escalade.[17]

May 29 Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during a total solar eclipse in Príncipe (see Eddington experiment), and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil (confirmed November 19).[18]

June[edit] Main article: June 1919

June – Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, now the world standard.

June 2 – 1919 United States anarchist bombings: Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures.

June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the states for ratification.

June 7 Sette Giugno on Malta: British troops fire on a mob protesting against the colonial government, killing four.

June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy piloted by John Alcock DSC, with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown, makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.

June 15 – Pancho Villa attacks Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. When the bullets begin to fly to the American side of the border, two units of the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment cross the border, to push Villa's forces from American territory.

June 17 – Epsom Riot by Canadian troops: English Police Sergeant Thomas Green is killed.

June 18 – The second most popular[citation needed][19] football club in Costa Rica, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, is founded.

June 21 Bloody Saturday of the Winnipeg general strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.

June 28

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is established as an agency of the League of Nations.

July[edit] Main article: July 1919

July 7 – The United States Army sends a convoy across the continental U.S., starting in Washington, D.C., to assess the possibility of crossing North America by road. This crossing takes many months to complete, because the building of the U.S. Highway System has not commenced.

July 11 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.

July 21 – Wingfoot Air Express crash: The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express catches fire over downtown Chicago. Two passengers, one aircrewman and ten people on the ground are killed; however, two people parachute to the ground safely.[21]

July 27 – The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins when a white man throws stones at a group of four black teens on a raft.

July 28 – The International Astronomical Union is founded in Paris, France.

July 31 – British police strikes in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers; over 2,000 strikers are dismissed. August[edit] Main article: August 1919 . August 8 – The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, signed in Rawalpindi, ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War, with the United Kingdom recognising the right of the Emirate of Afghanistan to manage its own foreign affairs and Afghanistan recognising the Durand Line as the border with British India.

August 16–26 – First Silesian Uprising: Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.

August 27 – South African Prime Minister Louis Botha dies in office.

August 31 – The American Communist Party is established.