* 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.

* 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician ( d. 1998 )

* 1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )

* 1864 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast ( d. 1919 )

* 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Murray Grand, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2007 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1919 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager ( d. 2010 )

* 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician ( d. 1987 )

* 1919 – Rex Humbard, American preacher and television host ( d. 2007 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor

* 1919 – The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.

* 2001 – Olivia Barclay, British astrologer ( b. 1919 )

* 1856 – Alfred Deakin, Australian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1919 )

* 2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army officer ( b. 1919 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general ( d. 1919 )

After the war, they joined the Kent League for one season ( 1919 – 20 ) before becoming professional, appointing Walter Rayner as the first full-time manager.

On January 20, 1919, VTsIK adopted a resolution prepared by VCheKa, On the abolition of Uyezd Extraordinary Commissions.

* 1919 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

On 20 February 1919, Habibullah Khan was assassinated on a hunting trip.

Of the single family homes 197 were built before 1919, while 20 were built between 1990 and 2000.

As part of the ongoing strategy to take control of the IRA, Brugha proposed to Dáil Éireann on 20 August 1919 that the Volunteers were to be asked, at this next convention, to swear allegiance to the Dáil.

After World War II, the Soviet Union installed socialist regimes modelled on those it had installed in 1919 – 20 in the old Tsarist empire in areas its forces occupied in Eastern Europe.

Goebbels spent the winter of 1919 – 20 in Munich, where he witnessed and admired the violent nationalist reaction against the attempted communist revolution in Bavaria.

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (; ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000 ), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, and again from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.

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On January 20, 1948, King called on the Liberal Party to hold its first national convention since 1919 to choose a leader.

They have been champions of England once, in 1919 – 20, but have had more success in the FA Cup, with five wins.

Albion won the Football League title in 1919 – 20 for the only time in their history following the end of the First World War, their totals of 104 goals and 60 points both breaking the previous league records.

* An influenza pandemic, the Spanish Flu, killed anywhere from 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919.

* September 20 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German World War II fighter ace ( b. 1919 )

* May 20 – Jon Pertwee, British actor ( b. 1919 )

* Hyperinflation is still rampant in Germany, where 263 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar-more than 20 times greater than the 12 marks needed in April 1919.

* November 20 – Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1919 )

The PPI won over 20 % of the votes in the 1919 and 1921 elections, but was declared illegal by the Fascist dictatorship in 1925 despite the presence of some Popolari in Benito Mussolini's first government.

*** SM UC-96, a Type UC III submarine launched in 1918 and surrendered on 24 November 1918 ; broken up at Morecambe in 1919 – 20

On December 20, 1919, these men voted, along with the representatives of Romania's other regions, to ratify the unification acts that had been approved by Sfatul Ţării and the National Congresses in Transylvania and Bukovina.

He developed a multi-dimensional continued fraction algorithm in 1919 / 20 and applied this to problems in musical theory.

The MMTB was formed on 1 November 1919, taking over the MTB cable tram network, with the Northcote tramway and the tramway trusts transferred to the MMTB on 20 February 1920.

In Poland his position is controversial, it being believed that he had saved that country from the Bolsheviks on the one hand but vilified there during 1919 – 20 for his supposed opinion that Poles were " children who gave trouble ".

The record high temperature on the South Rim was 105 ° F on June 26, 1974, and the record low temperature was − 20 ° F on January 1, 1919, February 1, 1985, and December 23, 1990.