* 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 )

Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U. S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy.

* 1919 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U. S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U. S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

* 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U. S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park ( see Grand Canyon National Park ).

American historian and author Ruth Edna Kelley of Massachusetts wrote the first book length history of the holiday in the U. S ; The Book of Hallowe ' en ( 1919 ), and references souling in the chapter " Hallowe ' en in America ";

In United States v. Doremus, 249 U. S. 86 ( 1919 ), the Supreme Court ruled that the Harrison Act was constitutional, and in Webb v. United States, 249 U. S. 96, 99 ( 1919 ) that physicians could not prescribe narcotics solely for maintenance.

H. Greenwood, U. S. Delegate and Harold B. Butler, Secretary-General, with secretarial staff of the first International Labour Conference in Washington, D. C., October – November 1919, in front of the Pan American Building </ center >

* 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U. S. cities.

However, the Canadian beer industry suffered a second blow when Prohibition began in the U. S. in 1919.

In that, he was encouraged by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919, the Italian insurrection and general strikes of 1920, and industrial unrest in Britain, France, and the U. S.

* 1919 – U. S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

In the 16 U. S. recessions since 1919, the average length has been 13 months, although the recent recessions have been shorter.

* 1919 – U. S. Marines invade Honduras.

This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.

France The total includes 1, 186, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The figure for total military dead of 1, 397, 800 is from a study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1931 The total includes 71, 100 French Colonial Forces, 4, 600 foreign nationals, and 28, 600 war-related military deaths occurring from 11 / 11 / 18 to 6 / 1 / 1919 The UK War Office in 1922 estimated French losses as 1, 385, 300 dead and missing, including 58, 000 colonial soldiers The U. S. War Department in 1924 estimated 1, 357, 800 killed and died The names of the soldiers who died for France during World War I are listed on-line by the French government.

In 1919, Wilson engaged in an intense fight with Henry Cabot Lodge and the Republican-controlled Senate over giving the League of Nations power to force the U. S. into a war.

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, effective as of January 17, 1920, and it continued throughout the 1920s.

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

Grand Canyon National Park was finally established as the 17th U. S. National Park by an Act of Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 26, 1919.

Further decrees along this line were issued in 1916 and 1919.

The West was now glad to propose the 1919 Curzon Line, which was substantially Russia's 1941 border, as the boundary between Russia and Poland.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

In 1920, as the startling news that the 1919 White Sox had conspired to lose the World Series leaked out, fans grew disillusioned and disinterested in baseball.

The set contains `` High Society '', `` Do What Ory Say '', `` Down Home Rag '', `` Careless Love '', Jazz Me Blues '', `` Weary Blues '', `` Original Dixieland One-Step '', `` Bourbon Street Parade '', `` Panama '', `` Toot, Toot, Tootsie '', `` Oh Didn't He Ramble '', `` Beale Street Blues '', `` Maryland, My Maryland '', `` 1919 Rag '', `` Eh, La Bas '', `` Mood Indigo '', and `` Bugle Call Rag ''.

* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.

He met Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory, shortly after the Armistice, and married her in January, 1919.

He was habilitated in neurology in 1919 and in 1924 became professor of neurology.

As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.

* Mr. Pim ( 1921 ) ( A novelisation of his play Mr. Pim Passes By ( 1919 ))

* Mr. Pim Passes By ( 1919 )