1919 q4 TimelineOctober01 - Sports World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers Black Sox.
02 - 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth.
02 - President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
03 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer, dies at 69.
03 - Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
03 - Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day.
05 - Jean Louis Nicode, composer, dies at 66.
05 - Norwegian population agrees to prohibition.
06 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series.
06 - Ricardo Palma, Peruvian writer/poet: Armon?as/Rodil, dies at 86.
06 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria.
07 - Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC.
07 - 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM).
07 - KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline).
10 - Richard Strauss & Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna.
11 - 1st transcontinental air race ends.
13 - Race riot at Elaine Arkansas.
14 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies.
15 - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money.
16 - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday.
17 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created.
19 - Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series.
19 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman.
22 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30.
23 - Romberg & Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in NYC.
26 - President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden.
26 - B C Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in NYC.
26 - Elgars "Cello concerto on 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London.
27 - US Congress sign Volstead Act.
27 - Cricket John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Aust one Test 1895, one catch), dies.
27 - Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim.
28 - Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto.
28 - Ted Wainwright, cricketer (Yorks stalwart, 5 Tests 1893-98), dies.
29 - Soen Shaku, Zen abbot of Engakuji monastery in Kamakura, dies at 60.
30 - Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball.
November07 - Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56.
07 - US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers.
10 - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis).
10 - 1st observance of National Book Week.
11 - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views.
12 - Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia.
14 - Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia.
15 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies.
15 - Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty).
16 - Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from B?la Kuns Soviet Republic.
18 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies.
18 - H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in NYC.
December01 - AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By," premieres in Manchester.
01 - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament.
02 - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69.
03 - Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78.
10 - NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers.
10 - Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson.
10 - NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties.
13 - Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London.
13 - Amintore Galli, composer, dies at 74.
15 - Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC.
15 - Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence.
17 - Austria parliament approves 8-hour day.
18 - Horatio William Parker, composer, dies at 56.
18 - John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27.
19 - American Meteorological Society found.
20 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM).
20 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration.
21 - J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia.
22 - Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland).
22 - US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman.
23 - Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace.
23 - 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched.
26 - Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth.
27 - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season.
27 - Achilles Alferaki, composer, dies at 73.
27 - Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch lib premier 1905-
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