The theme of stab-in-the-back was articulated in 1919 most prominently by General Erich Ludendorff, one of the two top German commanders.

* 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

* 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins.

On 8 April 1919, naval Admiral W. H. G. Bullard and Captain Stanford C. Hooper met with executives of the General Electric Corporation ( GE ) and asked them to discontinue selling the company's Alexanderson alternators ( used in the high-power AM radio transmitters of that era ) to the British-owned Marconi Company, and to its subsidiary, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

The incorporation of the assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America ( including David Sarnoff ,) the Pan-American Telegraph Company, and those already controlled by the United States Navy led to a new publicly held company formed by General Electric ( which owned a controlling interest ) on 17 October 1919.

The Black Army, which counted numerous Jews and Ukrainian peasants in its ranks, played a key part in halting General Denikin's White Army offensive towards Moscow during 1919, later ejecting Cossack forces from the Crimea.

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck | General von Lettow-Vorbeck in Dar es Salaam with a British Officer ( left ) and German Officer ( right ), March 1919

In his final despatch of May 1919, General Jacob van Deventer placed the German forces at the commencement of 1916 at 2, 700 whites and 12, 000 blacks.

However, in June 1919 Tsaritsyn was captured by White forces of General Denikin, which left the city in January 1920.

In 1919, the first candidate to declare for the GOP nomination was General Leonard Wood.

* July 21 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer ( d. 1919 ).

In 1919, he became an aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing.

The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.

On August 1, 1919, Palmer put 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover in charge of a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division.

Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest, a collection of resources on IWW activity in the region, including their role in the 1919 Seattle General Strike and farm worker organizing in the early 1900s.

In March 1919, President Wilson asked Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for his opinion on clemency for Debs but offered his own: " I doubt the wisdom and public effect of such an action.

* James Wolfe-Murray ( 1853 – 1919 ), British military officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the 1910s

After receiving some support ( but even more promises ) from General Malleson, the British withdrew in April 1919, and the Tashkent Soviet resumed control of the city and in July 1919, when the city was renamed Poltoratsk ( Полторацк ) after a local revolutionary.

* 1919 – Arthur Stanley Eddington uses a solar eclipse to successfully test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

He was not the head of the French military mission which had arrived earlier ( 1919 ) and was headed by General Henrys.

The year 1919 saw a number of general strikes throughout North America, including two that were considered significant — the Seattle General Strike, and the Winnipeg General Strike.

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

In 1919 Karl Barth's commentary on Romans, The Epistle to the Romans, was the publication which is widely seen as the beginning of neo-orthodoxy.

They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919.

After 1919 these rules were improved by Karl Schelenz.

* 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.

They received considerable support from Gustav Noske, the German Defence Minister who used them to crush the Spartakist League with enormous violence, including the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on January 15, 1919.

** Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1919 )

During the summer semester of 1919, Fromm studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he switched from studying jurisprudence to sociology under Alfred Weber ( brother of the better known sociologist Max Weber ), the psychiatrist-philosopher Karl Jaspers, and Heinrich Rickert.

On March 24, 1919, Karl Harrer ( a sports journalist and member of the Thule Society ) joined the DAP to increase the influence of the Thule Society over the DAP's activities, and the party name was changed to the " Political Workers ' Circle ".

On 5 January 1919 Anton Drexler, who had developed links between the Thule Society and various extreme right workers ' organizations in Munich, together with the Thule Society's Karl Harrer, established the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), or German Workers ' Party.

Brother Adam ( born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996 ) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping in 1919, and began extensive breeding work creating the honeybee known as the Buckfast bee.

Chicago: Ehrhart and Karl, 1919.

Effective 21 October 1918, the Imperial Council parliamentarians representing the empire's ethnically German provinces formed a Provisional National Assembly for their paralyzed rump state and appointed veteran party leader Karl Seitz as one of their three largely coequal chairmen ( 21 October 1918-16 February 1919 ).

In the late 1950s, Langsner and Peter Selz, then professor at the Claremont Colleges, observed a common link among the recent work of John McLaughlin ( 1898 – 1976 ), Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley ( 1919 – 2009 ) and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg.

Karl H. Pribram ( born February 25, 1919 in Vienna, German Austria ) is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University.

* Karl Liebknecht ( 1871 – 1919 ), socialist politician and revolutionary

King Music House in 1919, the same year his only child Karl L. King, Jr. was born.

Their only son Karl L. King, Jr. was born in 1919 and died November 19, 1987.

Born in Leipzig in 1870 as the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht and the brother of Karl Liebknecht, Theodor Liebknecht studied law and worked as a lawyer in Berlin from 1899 on, becoming politically active after his brother's murder in January 1919.

In 1919, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany, were buried there.

In 1919 the Spartacist uprising challenged the power of the SPD government, but it was put down in blood and the German Communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were assassinated.

The Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch began the exploration of color vision in honey bees when he asked the first question in 1919: does color vision in bees exist?

On 15 January 1919 the socialist Karl Liebknecht was shot by Freikorps soldiers within the park near the lake Neuer See.

Karl Harrer ( 8 October 1890-5 September 1926 ) was a German journalist and politician, one of the founding members of the " Deutsche Arbeiterpartei " (" German Workers ' Party ", DAP ) in 1919, the party that soon would become the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( NSDAP ).