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In 1919, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold star player Babe Ruth to the Yankees, which was followed by an 86-year period in which the Red Sox did not win a World Series.
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1919 and Red
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.
Ruth originally entered the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder.
It is believed that there were more than three million deserters from the Red Army in 1919 and 1920.
* 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
With the 1920, militant strike activity by industrial workers reached its peak in Italy, where 1919 and 1920 were known as the " Red Years ".
* 1919 – Red Buttons, American actor ( d. 2006 )
Other early petroleum discoveries in North Louisiana included the Bull Bayou Field, Red River Parish, Louisiana ( 1913 ), Monroe Gas Field, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana ( 1916 ), Homer Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1919 ) and Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana ( 1921 ).
John MacLean emerged as a key political figure in what became known as Red Clydeside, and in January 1919, the British Government, fearful of a revolutionary uprising, deployed tanks and soldiers in central Glasgow.
* Order of the Red Banner, six times (№ 47-26 June 1919, № 629 / 2 от апреля 1921 года, № 27 / 3-2 December 1925, № 5 / 4-22 February 1930, № 1 / 5-3 November 1944, № 1 / 6 от 24 June 1948 )
When Communists seized power in March 1919 he refused to serve in the Red Army and returned back to medicine.
Military insignia of the Red Army 1919 – 1924
* The second period: January – November 1919, featured the White armies ' successful advances, from the south, under Gen. Anton Denikin, from the east, under Gen. Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, and from the northwest, under Gen. Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich, that defeated the Red Army on each front.
In 1919 – 1921 the Red Army was also involved in the Polish-Soviet war, in which it reached central Poland in 1920, but then suffered a defeat there, which put an end to the war.
* Red Summer of 1919
The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919.
In what became known as " Red Summer " of 1919, numerous industrial cities across the Midwest and North had severe race riots, in which ethnic whites led riots and killed numerous blacks, and thousands more were left homeless when property was destroyed, as in Chicago, Omaha, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.
* March 13 – Jane Delano, American founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service ( d. 1919 )
In the fall of 1919, following Red Summer, postwar social and economic tensions, the earlier hiring of blacks as strikebreakers, and job uncertainty contributed to a mob from South Omaha lynching Willy Brown and the ensuing Omaha Race Riot.
In July 1919, Philadelphia was one of more than 36 industrial cities nationally to suffer a race riot of ethnic whites against blacks during Red Summer, in post-World War I unrest, as recent immigrants competed with blacks for jobs.
Discouraged by the obvious talents of Sonny Greer, who also lived in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie at age 15 switched to piano exclusively.
He was one of the senior members in Colonel von Epp's Bayerisches Freikorps für den Grenzschutz Ost, formed at Ohrdruf in April 1919, which finally overturned the Red Republic in Munich by force of arms on 3 May 1919.
On April 13, 1919, the city was occupied by units of Admiral Kolchak's White Army, only to fall again, this time decisively, to another assault by the Red Army in June 8 of the same year.
The old Index Bridge was built over the Red River in 1919, allowing easy highway access to Texarkana, 20 miles to the south.
In 1919, the Rand Silver Mine was discovered east of town on Red Mountain.
1919 and Sox
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 1919 World Series, however, was marred by the Black Sox Scandal, in which several prominent members of the White Sox ( including Cicotte and Jackson ) were accused of conspiring with gamblers to purposefully lose games.
During Veeck and Greenberg's first season, the White Sox won their first AL pennant since 1919.
He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests.
* 1919 – Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
The doubt over the Yankees ' lasting power was amplified by baseball's sagging popularity after the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players were expelled for conspiring with gamblers to fix that year's World Series.
", as has happened when players in the Black Sox Scandal intentionally lost the 1919 World Series in a scheme with gamblers.
* Buck Weaver, former MLB shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, involved in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal
* Shoeless Joe Jackson ( 1887 – 1951 ), American baseball player most known for being banned from baseball for his part in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal
After the White Sox lost the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, Jackson and seven other White Sox players were accused of accepting $ 5, 000 each to throw the Series.
He was one of eight players permanently ineligible for professional baseball for his alleged participation in the Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series, in which the favored White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games.
Said to be a friend of the gangster Arnold Rothstein, Attell was charged ( and acquitted ) of game fixing in the Black Sox Scandal in 1919 and was implicated in other sports controversies.
In 1920 Attell was accused of being the messenger between the gangster Rothstein and players of the Chicago White Sox baseball organization, during the planning stages of the alleged fix of the 1919 World Series.
* On September 24, 1919, Waite Hoyt, pitching for the Red Sox against the Yankees in the second game of a doubleheader, gave up a run in the second inning.
The Indians played the Red Sox on July 18, 1919.
He appeared in the film Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal, in which he played newspaper reporter Hugh Fullerton, who tries to uncover the White Sox players ' plans to throw the 1919 World Series.
1919 and owner
* 1919 – Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site ( d. 1973 )
The Sag Harbor Corrector was eventually purchased by Burton Corwin, owner of the Sag Harbor News, in 1919 and became the Sag Harbor News and Corrector.
The council had its first meeting on November 24 and selected Gilbert " Gil " Geiser ( 1919 – 1997 ), a 35-year-old hardware store owner, as Mountlake Terrace's first mayor.
In 1919 an early municipal airfield was carved out, later named Felts Field in honor of Herald owner Buell Felts who died in a plane crash there.
His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury the part owner of The London Star and he moved to London in 1919 and worked for them until 1927 before moving to The Evening Standard.
*, was a minesweeper built in 1882 and commissioned in 1918, and used in coastal defense until returned to her owner in 1919.
In 1919 Oorang Kennel owner, Walter Lingo, met and became friends with Jim Thorpe of the Canton Bulldogs, a future Pro Football Hall of Famer who was considered the greatest athlete of his time.
In 1919, the team starred George Halas at wide receiver ; Halas left for the Decatur Staleys -- the future Chicago Bears -- the next year and remained with that franchise as a player, coach and owner until his death in 1983.
The Orteig Prize was a $ 25, 000 reward ($ as of ) offered on May 19, 1919, by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first allied aviator ( s ) to fly non-stop from New York City to Paris or vice-versa.
* The television series Friday the 13th: The Series featured an episode titled " The Mephisto Ring " about a cursed 1919 World Series ring that killed whoever wore it, allowing its owner to view the future outcome of a sporting event in return for supplying it with victims.
* April 15-Joseph E. Seagram, distillery founder, politician, philanthropist and racehorse owner ( died 1919 )
In 1919, the rival International Film Service studio folded and owner William Randolph Hearst licensed Bray to continue the IFS series, which included Jerry on the Job films adapted from Walter Hoban's comic strip.
The Polish-American Stephen J. Poplawski, owner of the Stevens Electric Company, began designing drink mixers in 1919 under contract with Arnold Electric Company, and patented the drink mixer in 1922 which had been designed to make Horlicks malted milk shakes at soda fountains.
By 1919, he had purchased all of the stock for the company to become the sole owner and changed the name in 1938 to August Wagner Breweries, Inc.
Hugh Franklin Culverhouse, Sr. ( 1919 – August 26, 1994 ) was the longtime owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League ( NFL ).
Anne Beau Cox Chambers ( born December 1, 1919, in Dayton, Ohio ) is a media proprietor, who is primary owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media empire that includes newspapers, television, radio, cable television, and other businesses.
He played a Navy Master at Arms in 1973's The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson and baseball team owner Charles Comiskey in the 1988 true story Eight Men Out, a drama about the corrupt 1919 Chicago White Sox.
Mrs Hargreaves, the owner of Arborfield Hall, is thought to have demolished part of the mill some time after 1861, but it was offered for sale again in 1919, and at the time included a water wheel and a turbine.
James Boag II ( 1854 – 1919 ) was the son of James Boag I, and co-proprietor of J. Boag & Sons, owner of the Boag's Brewery in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
Founded in 1919 by Tenny Blount with the help of Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the Detroit Stars immediately established themselves as one of the most powerful teams in the West.
In 1919, Christian Nelson, an Iowa store owner, discovered how to coat an ice cream bar with chocolate, inventing the Eskimo Pie.
She was decommissioned in 1919, and was returned to her owner, Rotterdamsche Lloyd.
* Andrew Miller ( publisher ) ( 1857 – 1919 ), Life magazine publisher / owner, racehorse owner / breeder
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