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next turn year 1919

events

September[edit] Main article: September 1919

September 3 – Jan Smuts becomes the second Prime Minister of South Africa.

September 6 – The U.S. Army expedition across America, which started July 7, ends in San Francisco.

September 10–15 – The Florida Keys hurricane kills 600 in the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and Texas.

September 17 – German South West Africa is placed under South African administration.

September 21 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States.

October[edit] Main article: October 1919

October 2 – President of the United States Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.

October 7 – The Dutch airline KLM is formed (as of 2019, it is the world's oldest airline still flying under its original name).

October 9 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players are later found to have lost intentionally.

October 13 – The Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation is signed, in Paris, France.

October 16 In Germany, Adolf Hitler gives his first speech for the German Workers' Party (DAP).

The historic Condado Vanderbilt Hotel is inaugurated, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

October 26 – 1919 Luxembourg general election, the first in the duchy with female suffrage, following constitutional amendments of May 15.

October 28 – Prohibition in the United States: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

November[edit] Main article: November 1919 November 1 – The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States, by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis; a final agreement is reached on December 10.

November 7

over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities.

Inspired by Cape Town's daily Noon Gun Three Minute Pause, King George V institutes the Two Minute Silence, following a suggestion by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, to be observed annually at the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month.[22]

November 9 – Felix the Cat debuts in Feline Follies.

November 10–12 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis. November 10 – Abrams v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction Abrams for inciting resistance to the war effort against Soviet Russia.

November 11

The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington (United States), originating at an Armistice Day parade, results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion, and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

First Remembrance Day observed in the British Empire with a two-minute silence at 11:00 hours.[22]

November 22 – An annular solar eclipse took place at Atlantic Ocean. The greatest eclipse was 6º56'01.68" N, 48º52'42.24" W.

November 30 – Health officials declare the global "Spanish" flu pandemic has ceased.

December[edit] Main article: December 1919

December 1 American-born Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, having become the second to be elected on November 28.[23]

XWA (modern-day CINW), in Montreal, becomes the first public radio station in North America to go on the air.

December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

December 4 – The French Opera House in New Orleans, Louisiana is destroyed by fire.

December 17 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

December 19 – The fictional character Ham Gravy makes his début in Thimble Theatre comics in the United States.

December 21 – The United States deports 249 people, including Emma Goldman, to Russia on the USAT Buford.

December 23 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.

December 25 – Cliftonhill Stadium in Coatbridge, Scotland, opens as the home of Albion Rovers F.C. They lose the opening match 2–0 to St Mirren.

December 26 – American baseball player Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at this time, a deal made public at the beginning of January 1920.

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John Browning finalizes the design for the M1919 Browning machine gun (.30 caliber), the first widely distributed and practical air cooled medium machine gun introduced to the United States Military. It receives an official designation, and production is started in the same year.