1919 q3 TimelineJuly01 - Sports Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen.
04 - ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms.
04 - Sports Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship.
04 - Sports Cincinnati Reds are 10 games back in NL, & win World Series.
05 - Sports Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times.
06 - Sports William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president.
06 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr).
07 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies.
07 - Sports Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game.
08 - President Woodrow Wilson Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference.
10 - Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate.
11 - Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work.
13 - Sports Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield.
13 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas.
17 - Finland adopts constitution.
17 - Sports Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play.
21 - Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 in Chicago, Ill.
21 - Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam.
22 - De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London.
24 - Race Riot in Washington DC kills 5 and wounds 100.
27 - Chicago race riot kills 15 whites and 23 blacks, injures 500.
28 - Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam.
31 - Germany accepts Weimar Constitution.
31 - Cricket R G Barlow, cricketer (591 runs/34 wickets/17 Tests for England), dies.
August01 - Sports Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek.
01 - Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam.
04 - Cricket D[ave] W Gregory, cricketer (brother of Ned, uncle of Syd), dies.
06 - 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler).
06 - Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest.
08 - Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence.
09 - Ralph Houk, baseball manager (Yankees, Tigers), is born.
09 - Ernst Haeckel, German philosopher (Social Darwinism), dies at 85.
09 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62.
10 - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine.
11 - Weimar Republic begins in Germany.
11 - Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies at 83.
11 - Green Bay Packers football club founded.
13 - Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga).
13 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350.
14 - Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play.
14 - White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game.
18 - Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois.
19 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK.
20 - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg).
23 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune.
24 - Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning.
25 - 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London).
27 - Louis Botha, South African soldier/statesman, dies.
28 - General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa.
28 - Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies.
30 - Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin.
30 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies.
31 - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago.
31 - Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev.
31 - Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group.
September01 - Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich.
02 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago.
02 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series.
02 - Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation.
04 - British intervene in Petrograd.
08 - Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25.
09 - Boston's police force forms strike.
10 - Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0.
10 - NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers.
10 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany.
11 - US marines invade Honduras.
12 - Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48.
13 - Guy Bolton & George Middleton's "Adam & Eve," premieres in NYC.
16 - Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant.
16 - American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress.
18 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage.
18 - Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast.
20 - Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs.
20 - 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY.
20 - Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in NYC.
21 - Sports 33rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62).
24 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey.
25 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke.
26 - US President Woodrow Wilson hit by a heart attack.
27 - Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season).
27 - Cricket Robert Gleeson, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1895-96), dies.
27 - Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs.
27 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk.
27 - Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members.
28 - Sports Fastest major league game (51 mins), Giants beat Phillies 6-1.
30 - Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers," premieres in NYC.
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