* 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 )

At a meeting of the Party in Munich in September 1919, the main speaker was Gottfried Feder.

At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the Kingdom of Italy did not receive any part of the German colonies.

At the end of World War I, as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles restricted the total tonnage of the German surface fleet.

At 9 pm on November 7, 1919, a date chosen because it was the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, agents of the Bureau of Investigation, together with local police, executed a series of well-publicized and violent raids against the Russian Workers in 12 cities.

At home, 1919 was marked by major strikes in the meatpacking and steel industries, and large-scale race riots in Chicago and other cities.

At the end of World War I the city became part of the newly independent Second Polish Republic, as the capital of the Białystok Voivodeship ( 1919 – 1939 ).

(" At the 11th hour " refers to the passing of the 11th hour, or 11: 00 a. m .) World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

At 11: 00 a. m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had gone on strike.

At 11: 00 a. m. on Thursday May 15, 1919, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had gone on strike.

At 11: 00 a. m. on June 26, 1919, the Central Strike Committee officially called off the strike and the strikers returned to work.

At that time, a new tradition of bright law students clerking for the U. S. Supreme Court had been begun by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, for whom Acheson clerked for two terms from 1919 to 1921.

It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).

At the request of the University of Chicago Press, Hyman wrote A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology ( 1919 ), which promptly became widely used, to her astonishment.

At the time however, the anti-Vatican resentment, combined with Italian diplomatic moves to isolate the Vatican in light of the unresolved Roman Question, contributed to the exclusion of the Vatican from the Paris Peace conference of 1919 ( although it was also part of a historical pattern of political and diplomatic marginalization of the papacy after the loss of the papal states ).

At the Dallam County Courthouse, Dalhart honors the memory of James R. Fox, Jr. ( March 16, 1919 — March 11, 1943 ), who flew supplies to China for Pan American Airways, then a joint Chinese and American company, during World War II through the treacherous Hump Route.

At Fulwell Park he tried to recreate a Portuguese environment, as the attempts to restore his throne ( 1911, 1912 and 1919 ) kept on failing.

At the end of the war, O ' Connor reverted to his rank of captain and served as regimental adjutant from April to December 1919.

At this point in his life, Beebe was forming a close friendship with then-president Theodore Roosevelt, which would last until Roosevelt's death in 1919.

At the same time in 1919, the Bolsheviks had gained the upper hand in the Russian Civil War, having dealt crippling blows to the Russian White Movement.

At the end of 1919, the Commission had spent £ 7, 500, and this figure rose to £ 250, 000 in 1920 as construction of cemeteries and memorials increased.

At a May, 1919 convention in Ohio he announced the publication of a new magazine, The Golden Age ( later renamed Awake !).

" At the fifth General Assembly held in Nashville in 1919, in response to resolutions from thirty-five district assemblies, the General Assembly voted to remove the word " Pentecostal " from the church name, leaving it simply " Church of the Nazarene.

At The Parting Of The Ways — A cartoon from the May, 1919 IWW periodical One Big Union, published in Revolutionary Radicalism, shows a worker ( representing the working class ) choosing between an AFL slogan ( A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work ) and an IWW slogan ( Abolition of the Wage System ). Anti-IWW cartoon from The American Employer, published 1913, with the Industrial Workers of the World organizing drive editorialized as " a volcano of hate stirred into active eruption at Akron, by alien hands, which pour into the crater the disturbing acids and alkalis of greed, class hatred and anarchy.