* 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 )

On December 23, 1921 Harding calmed the 1919 – 1920 Bolshevik scare and released election opponent, socialist leader Eugene Debs, from prison.

The airport was named for Mahlon Sweet ( 1886-1947 ), a Eugene automobile dealer who was a strong supporter of aviation and pushed to get the now-defunct Eugene Air Park built in 1919, followed by the current airfield in 1943.

On May 1, 1919, a parade in Cleveland, Ohio, protesting the imprisonment of the Socialist Party leader, Eugene Debs, erupted into the violent May Day Riots.

Eoghan Ó Tuairisc ( Eugene Watters ) ( 1919 – 1982 ) was another bilingual poet.

The OBSC's origins are found in two smaller Pentecostal groups which can be traced to the Azusa Street Revival: the Bible Standard Conference founded in Eugene, Oregon in 1919 and the Open Bible Evangelistic Association founded in Des Moines, Iowa in 1932 ; as both were similar in doctrine and structure, the two groups amalgamated in 1935.

Based on the 1919 story " The Curse of Capistrano " by Johnston McCulley, which introduced the masked hero, Zorro, the screenplay was adapted by Fairbanks ( as " Elton Thomas ") and Eugene Miller.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to award, in the name of Congress, gold medals of appropriate design to Commander John H. Towers for conceiving, organizing, and commanding the first trans-Atlantic flight ; to lieutenant Commander Albert C. Read, United States Navy, commanding officer NC-4 ; to Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone, United States Coast Guard, pilot ; to former Lieutenant Walter Hinton, United States Navy, pilot ; to Lieutenant H. C. Rodd, United States Navy, radio operator ; to former Lieutenant J. L. Breese, United States Naval Reserve Force, engineer ; and to former Machinist's Mate Eugene Rhodes, United States Navy, engineer, for their extraordinary achievement in making the first successful trans-Atlantic flight, in the United States naval flying boat NC-4, in May, 1919.

Eugene M. " Gene " Lang ( b. 1919, New York City ) is an American philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951.

Eugene V. " Gene " Frankel ( December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005 ) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene.

In 1919, Eugene married Martha Ott and fathered two more children, Corinne and Suzanne.

Franquin was a teacher of both Georges Mager ( 1885 – 1950 ) who was principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1919 until 1950, and Eugene Foveau ( 1886 – 1957 ) who became professor of cornet at the Paris Conservatory in 1925.

But by 1919, when Fletcher, 69, died of bronchitis, his diet plan was already being replaced by the next approach to dieting championed by Irving Fisher and Eugene Lyman Fisk: counting calories.

), who married Eugene Brandeis ( 1846 – 1919 ) in 1898 and had two daughters.

* 1919 – King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day ( later Remembrance Day ).

* Le Tombeau de Couperin (" Tombeau for Couperin "; piano 1914 – 1917 ; movements I, III, IV and V orchestrated 1919 )

The band's 1919 appearance at the London Hippodrome was the first official jazz gig by any band in the United Kingdom and was followed by a command performance for King George V at Buckingham Palace.

The day was specifically dedicated by King George V on 7 November 1919 as a day of remembrance for members of the armed forces who were killed during World War I.

* R. V. Truitt, first lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland, 1919 – 1927.

From 1917 to 1919, George V also stripped 15 of his German relations — most of whom belonged to the House of Hanover — of their British titles and styles of prince and princess.

By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, his cousin once removed Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught.

A proof of his recognition by the English was by his friend George V, who invited him to be with the King during the victory celebrations during the parade of soldiers in 1919.

Handley Page V / 1500 | Atlantic in flight, non-stop from New York to Chicago, 1919

Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien ( IVA ), founded in 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.

* A destroyer of the V and W class was to have been named Zebra, but she was cancelled in 1919.

Notable early 20th century editions include V. S. Vernon Jones ' new translation of the fables accompanied by the pictures of Arthur Rackham ( London, 1912 ) and in the USA Aesop for Children ( Chicago, 1919 ), illustrated by Milo Winter.

In the wake of the failure of Fallen Fairies and his unhappy experience with it, German effectively ended his career as a composer of new works, only returning to composition on a few rare occasions, including a march and hymn for the coronation of King George V in 1911, his Theme and Six Diversions in 1919, and his final major work, the Othello-inspired tone poem The Willow Song in 1922.

The Prince John ( John Charles Francis ; 12 July 1905 – 18 January 1919 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary.

Thereafter, members of the Royal Family would stay periodically at Rideau Hall, if not as governor general then as guests of the Crown, so that the palace played host to Prince Leopold ( later also Duke of Albany ) in 1880 ; Prince George ( later King George V ) in 1882, 1901, and 1908 ; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught ( later also the Duke and Duchess of Strathearn ), in 1890 and as the viceregal couple from 1906 to 1912 ; Princess Louise in 1900 ; Princess Patricia with her parents from 1906 to 1912 ; Prince Albert ( later King George VI ) in 1910 and 1913 ; Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VIII ), in 1919, 1923, 1924, and 1927 ; Prince George ( later also Duke of Kent ) in 1926 and 1927 ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1929.

* Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale ( 1845 – 1923 ), eldest son of George V, was deprived of his British honours in 1919

* Charlotte Bill ( c. 1875 – 1965 ), known as Lalla, nanny of The Prince John, son of George V from 1905 until 1919, featured in the film The Lost Prince

E. V. Ramasami Naicker (" Periyar "), a popular Tamil reformist leader of the time, had joined Indian National Congress in 1919, to oppose what he considered the Brahminic leadership of the party.

The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919.

* June 1, 1919: Line opens between Hakone-Yumoto and Gōra as an electrified ( 600 V DC ) funicular railway.

* George V of the United Kingdom 1910 – 1936: silver half crown, sterling silver ( 92½ % silver ) until 1919, then 50 % silver.

* The first direct shipment of cotton to Europe ( November 1919 via the M / V Merry Mount )

The comet 1846 III is called Brorsen and the comet 1847 V is named Brorsen-Metcalf ( because Joel Hastings Metcalf was its rediscoverer in 1919 ).

* Copeau, Jacques: Registres V, Le Vieux-Colombier ( 1919 – 1924 ); Ed.