* 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 )

* 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of " prayer and fasting " in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.

Nehru's political apprenticeship under Gandhi lasted from 1919 to 1929.

In 1919 Gandhi, with his weak position in Congress, decided to broaden his base by increasing his appeal to Muslims.

After Mahatma Gandhi joined the Indian independence movement in 1919, Rajaji became one of his followers.

Gandhi ’ s nation-wide strike in response of the Rowlatt Act, 1919, paralyzed economic life in April 1919.

Gandhi chose April 6 to launch the mass breaking of the salt laws for a symbolic reason — it was the first day of " National Week ", begun in 1919 when Gandhi conceived of the national hartal ( strike ) against the Rowlatt Act.

Union Bank of India ( UBI ) was registered on 11 November 1919 as a limited company in Mumbai and was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi.

After World War I, they played a leading part in launching the Khilafat movement: in December 1918 they were the first ‘ ulema to attend the All-India Muslim League sessions ; they developed an alliance with Mahatma Gandhi ; they helped to organize the Central Khilafat Committee in 1919 ; and throughout they drove the agitation more extreme till in 1920 the Khilafat movement adopted a policy of non-cooperation with the British government, and under its influence so did the Indian National Congress.

The experiences of the First World War, the unsatisfactory Montague-Chelmsford reforms of 1919, and the rise to prominence of M. K. Gandhi in the Indian independence movement marked a change in the attitude of its leaders towards articulating demands for civil rights.

There have been Muslim Gandhians, such as Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as the " Frontier Gandhi "; under the influence of Gandhi, he organized the Pathans of the Northwest Frontier as early as 1919.

In the preparation for this movement Mahatma Gandhi along with Jawahar Lal Nehru had visited the district on October 8, 1919.

After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.

On 19 March 1919, orders were received from the War Office to " get the Emperor out of Austria without delay ".

In March 1919 after a failed workers revolt against Bolshevik rule thousands of people were executed by the Cheka under orders from Sergey Kirov.

" He had agreed to play in the 1919 Hastings Victory Congress, but withdrew at the last moment " by doctor's orders ".

Brigadier Dyer is known best for the orders which he gave on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar.

In Austria, titles of nobility including certain other orders and honours held by Austrian citizens have since 3 April 1919 been abolished, including nobiliary particles such as von, the use of such titles by Austrian citizens is an offence punishable with a financial enforcement penalty.

He noted that the Nickle Resolution favoured foreign sovereigns over Canada's own sovereign, because, since 1919, some 646 foreign orders had been conferred upon persons resident in Canada by foreign, non-British sovereigns.

* February 26 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler orders Hermann Göring to secretly establish the Luftwaffe, violating the provision of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 that Germany never again possess armed aircraft.

It was established as an independent but temporary wartime branch of the War Department by two executive orders of President Woodrow Wilson: on May 24, 1918, replacing the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps as the nation's air force ; and March 19, 1919, establishing a military Director of Air Service to control all aviation activities.

Maj. Gen. Charles Menoher was appointed to the vacancy on January 2, 1919, but the patchwork nature of laws and executive orders that had created the various parts of the Air Service prevented him from exercising all their legal powers and ending the unity of command problems caused by dual authority.

The orders stated to report for " Class 1 " ( the first class of regular officers sent to NAS Pensacola after the commencement of World War I ), on 15 September 1919.

Orders for colonial coins, blanks and bar metal were a steady source of business until, in 1912, an order for 16. 8 million bronze coins for Britain, and in 1918 and 1919, further orders for 7. 1 million pence saw the mint striking coins for the home market.

The United States Army published orders authorizing the World War I Victory Medal in April 1919 and the U. S. Navy followed in June of that same year.

* 10 March 1919 Gustav Noske orders Peoples ’ Naval Division disbanded.

* Mar 10, 1919 Gustav Noske orders Peoples ’ Naval Division disbanded.

The design was developed by the PRR's Fort Wayne Shops and orders were placed with Alco ( Brooks ) ( 35 locomotives ) and Baldwin ( 25 locomotives ) for a total of 60 ; the first Alco locomotive was delivered in December 1918, with the remainder arriving during 1919.

The regiment remained here until given orders to return home in mid-summer 1919.

Genreith ( 1999 ) has sketched out a fractal cosmology in which the smallest mass, which he identified as a neutrino, is about 120 orders of magnitude smaller than the mass of the universe ( note: this ' neutrino ' approximates in scale to the hypothetical particle m < sub > H </ sub > mentioned above in the context of Weyl's work in 1919 ).

U. S. Army Brigadier General Wilds P. Richardson arrived in Arkhangelsk aboard the icebreaker Canada on April 17, 1919, with orders from then-General Pershing to organize a coordinated withdrawal of the American troops " at the earliest possible moment ".

In April 1919 Dybenko disregarded the orders of his superiors, and conquered Krym instead of moving his forces into the eastern Ukraine ( Donbass ).

In Spiš they demanded the whole northern half of the region down to Poprad, though units were withdrawn after orders from Warsaw in January 1919.

At the start of 1919, fighting broke out almost by accident and without any orders from the respective governments, when self-organized Polish military units in Kresy (" Borderland ") areas of Lithuania, Belarus and western Ukraine ( the Samoobrona Litwy i Białorusi numbering approximately ~ 2, 000 soldiers under general Wejtko ) clashed with local communist units and advance Bolshevik forces, each trying to secure the territories for its own incipient government.