1919 q2 TimelineApril03 - Woodrow Wilson becomes sick with influenza
03 - Austria expels all Habsburgers.
03 - Paul Geisler, composer, dies at 62.
04 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86.
05 - Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann.
05 - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews.
05 - Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana.
06 - Stefan Surzynski, composer, dies at 63.
07 - Allies evacuate Odessa
07 - 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks.
10 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39.
12 - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages.
13 - India Amritsar Massacre: British Army fires on and kill 100s of Indian Nationalists rioters.
19 - Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump and free fall.
19 - Sports 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4.
19 - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day.
19 - Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London).
20 - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army.
23 - Woodrow Wilson appeals directly to Italians in an effort to gain their support for his views on peace settlement
23 - Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season.
24 - Italian Premier Orlando walks out of peace conference over Fiume issue
28 - 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin).
30 - Phillies beat Bkln Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings.
30 - Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies.
May01 - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages.
02 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies.
03 - America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City).
03 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain.
04 - FVC soccer team forms.
04 - Giants play the 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phillies win 4-3.
06 - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa.
07 - Treaty of Versailles submitted to German delegation
08 - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane.
08 - Appingedam soccer team forms.
10 - 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8.
10 - Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed.
11 - Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie.
12 - Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15.
14 - 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53.
15 - Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0.
17 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80.
20 - Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550.
20 - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies.
25 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap.
25 - Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51.
28 - Armenia declares it's Independence.
29 - Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington.
30 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies.
31 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas).
June01 - Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden.
02 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers).
03 - Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks.
04 - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill.
04 - US marines invade Costa Rica.
05 - Eugen Levin‚ head of 2nd Bavarian soviet republic, assassinated.
06 - Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910.
06 - Finland declares war on bolsheviks.
08 - Jacob Fabricius, composer, dies at 78.
09 - Red Army captures Ufa.
09 - General steel strike in France.
11 - 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 & Trip Crown.
11 - 23rd US Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass.
12 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education.
14 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld.
15 - 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland.
17 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres.
20 - German govt of Scheideman resigns.
20 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria.
21 - German High Seas Fleet scuttled at Scapa Flow
21 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet.
21 - Bauer forms German govt.
23 - Nitti govt forms in Italy.
23 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Assn (UNIA) incorporates.
23 - Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, dies.
25 - 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13).
26 - NY Daily News begins publishing.
28 - Treaty of Versailles signed in Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
28 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against NY Yankees.
28 - Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence.
30 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76.
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