* 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 )

The IREC enforced the eight-hour day for railwaymen starting in January 1919.

In 1919 the NUR and ASLEF jointly organised a national railway strike, which prevented a proposed wage reduction and won an eight-hour maximum working day.

La Razón supported a strike for the eight-hour day held in May 1919, along with lowering the cost of subsistence goods.

In 1919 in Barcelona, after a 44-day general strike with over 100, 000 participants had effectively crippled the Catalan economy, the Government in Barcelona settled the strike by granting all the striking workers demands that included an eight-hour day, union recognition, and the rehiring of fired workers.

A strike for the eight-hour day was held in May 1919 in Peru.

As late as 1919, when Roosevelt was working with Joseph Bucklin Bishop on a biography that included a collection of his letters, Roosevelt did not mention either his first or second marriage, which took place in London.

A Norwegian diplomat, working with the League of Nations as a High Commissioner for Refugees beginning in 1919, proposed the idea of a forced population transfer modeled on the earlier post Balkan-war Greek-Bulgarian mandatory population transfer of Greeks in Bulgaria to Greece, and Bulgarians in Greece to Bulgaria.

The two met in 1919 while working for the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio in Kansas City, and would eventually start their own commercial art business together.

There was already a good working relationship between Bristol Aircraft and Cosmos, the Jupiter having been first flown in a prototype Bristol Badger in May 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.

Fleming soon rose to the rank of cinematographer, working with both Dwan and D. W. Griffith, and directed his first film in 1919.

After working at a theater as an usher, songbook agent, actor, and manager ( including the Palace Theater in Buffalo, New York ), he founded Pacific Title and Art in 1919, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films.

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.

Perhaps the most famous was the 1919 Black Friday rally, when campaigners for improved working conditions ( particularly protesting a 56-hour working week in many of the city's factories ) held an enormous rally, with at least 90, 000 protesters filling the square and the surrounding streets.

In 1919, Cleveland now working for the HBC, again set up a trading post in the mouth of Wager Bay.

Born in Yuma, Arizona on January 12 1919, she became a biochemist and later worked as a U. S. government research scientist working on the V-47 formula that gave Miss Victory and her daughter their powers.

During 1919 and 1920, he worked as a political advisor to the Murmansk Legion which was organized by the British to fight the Bolsheviks, working to recruit former Finnish Red fighters into a Finnish Legion under British control.

After working with Actors Equity during their 1919 strike, he decided that the Loos-Emerson team should make the move to the theater ; Loos took a subordinate position.

In September 1919, the working class movement founded the first Portuguese Labour Union Confederation, the General Confederation of Labour ; however, the feeling of political powerlessness, due to the lack of a coherent political strategy among the Portuguese working class, plus the growing popularity of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, led to the foundation of the Portuguese Maximalist Federation ( FMP ) in 1919.

* 20 March 1919 – Ostmarkenzulage – special allowance for German officials working in eastern provinces, which aimed to stimulate German colonization of Prussian Partition, is canceled.

Dating to 1893, Coombes Wood was the largest colliery in the town ; at its peak in 1919 Halesowen had 130 working mines.

In 1919 he went to England to attend Dover College and then to study under the famous Léonide Massine and established a working relationship with the ballet troupe belonging to Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois.

After working for many years as a Privatdozent at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, he was elected in 1919 to the Philosophy chair at the newly-founded University of Hamburg, where he lectured until 1933, supervising amongst others the doctoral thesis of Leo Strauss.

In 1919, Anastasia and three of his brothers arrived in New York City, working on a freighter.