1919
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Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s |
Years: | 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 |
1919 is a normal year beginning with Wednesday.
[change] Events
- January 15 - Great Molasses Flood in Boston kills 21 people.
- January 16 - Prohibition begins in the United States.
- June 28 - The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
- Sometime during the year - Charles Strite invents the toaster.
[change] Births
[change] Deaths
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
- April 10 - Emiliano Zapata
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum, American writer
- August 11 - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish businessman
- October 7 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
- October 13 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize winner