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

The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, ( marking the end of hostilities in World War I ), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

Bacterial genus Escherichia ( for example, Escherichia coli ) was named after him in 1919, eight years after his death.

In 1919, after delays caused by the destruction of World War I and a lengthy debate over who should head the institution and the socio-economic meanings of a reconciliation of the fine arts and the applied arts ( an issue which remained a defining one throughout the school's existence ), Gropius was made the director of a new institution integrating the two called the Bauhaus.

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.

The lycée André-Honnorat de Barcelonnette, originally the collège Saint-Maurice and renamed after the politician André Honnorat in 1919, is located in the town ; Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Carole Merle both studied there.

The Orioles of the IL won nine league championships, first in 1908, followed by a lengthy run from 1919 to 1925, and then dramatically in 1944, after they had lost their home field Oriole Park in a disastrous mid-season fire.

Nationalists staged large-scale demonstrations in Cairo in 1919, five years after Egypt had been declared a British protectorate.

Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.

The Constitution was rewritten on March 1, 2000 after first being adopted on July 17, 1919.

In 1919, the government of Spain raised the Spanish Foreign Legion and modeled it after the French Foreign Legion.

However, after 1919 titles of nobility were banned by law in Austria, and the " von Hayek " family became simply the Hayek family.

Hence, after 1919, Hayek's legal name became " Friedrich Hayek ", not " Friedrich von Hayek ".

His first wife was, from 1919, confined in the Vienna mental hospital Am Steinhof, and three years after his death was murdered under the Nazi euthanasia laws.

In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed the chair's colors after becoming influenced by the ' De Stijl ' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect.

In 1919, following a return to activity after a four year suspension of all football competition in Italy during World War I the team merged with city rival Verona and changed its name to Hellas Verona.

* 1919 – The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.

* 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

In 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, Amanullah announced Afghanistan's independence from foreign affairs at Eidgah Mosque.

Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

By the end of 1919 he'd become famous, after his first one-man exhibition at Der Sturm gallery, June 1919, and the publication that August of the poem An Anna Blume ( usually translated as ' To Anna Flower ', or ' To Eve Blossom '), a dadaist non-sensical love poem.

Radek was arrested after the Spartacist uprising on 12 February 1919 and held in Moabit prison until his release in January 1920.

The St. Louis Cardinals have the second-longest team hitting streak in MLB history: May 12, 1919 to May 14, 1960, a period of.

He played for the New York Giants ( 1919 – 1926 ) and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1927 – 1937 ).

" He is one of a select number of major league managers in baseball history who have earned a law degree or passed a state bar exam ; others include John Montgomery Ward ( New York Giants, Brooklyn and Providence, late 1800s ), Hughie Jennings ( Detroit, 1907 – 20, New York Giants, 1924 ), Miller Huggins ( St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees, 1913 – 29 ), Muddy Ruel ( St. Louis Browns, 1947 ), Jack Hendricks ( St. Louis Cardinals, 1918, Cincinnati, 1924 – 29 ), and Branch Rickey ( St. Louis Browns, 1913 – 15, St. Louis Cardinals, 1919 – 25 ).

Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963.

It changed hands in 1919, and the Varipatis family eventually acquired it c. 1940.

The south-eastern part of the island has undergone small scale oil and gas capturing from possibly as early as 1919 when the British Union Oil Company acquired over 75 % of the drilling rights in Barbados.

After Vitagraph Studios acquired Kalem, the film was re-released in February 1919.

By 1918 the residents of Pike Road acquired funds to establish the Pike Road Consolidated School, which opened in 1919.

The leasehold of No 4 St Margaret's Road was acquired in 1919 ; it became the first ' College house '.

Pennsylvania's state legislature authorized the acquisition of abandoned and clear-cut land for Pennsylvania State Game Lands in 1919, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission ( PGC ) acquired property along Plunketts Creek for State Game Lands Number 134 between 1937 and 1945.

The bank purchased the remaining stake in Aargauische Creditanstalt in 1919 that it had not acquired in 1913.

Also in 1919, the bank acquired Commandit-AG Weibel & Cie. in Fleurier and William Cuénod & Cie.

The League of Nations mandated territories acquired as a result of the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) became a further responsibility of the Colonial Office in the aftermath of the First World War.

In 1928, a few years after the death of Joseph E. Seagram ( 1919 ), the Distillers Corporation acquired Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, and took over the Seagram name.

In 1919 NBG acquired the Bank of Crete ( Trapeza Kritis ).

The chain was founded in 1919 in Ontario and was later acquired by Argus Corporation.

By the end of 1919 they had a 20 store chain with 18 acquired from rival Loblaws and 61 stores a year later.

In 1919 Midland Bank acquired Clydesdale Bank.

In 1919, he sold the Grand Hotel, Rome, which his father had acquired in 1896.

GKN acquired another fastener manufacturer, F. W. Cotterill Ltd., in 1919: Cotterill already owned a subsidiary named J. W. Garrington, which specialised in forgings, and it was the forgings produced at the Garrington Darlaston plant, later supplemented by a large plant at Bromsgrove, that enabled GKN to become a major supplier of crankshafts, connecting rods, half-shafts and numerous smaller forged components to the UK auto-industry during and beyond the period of massive expansion between the two world wars.

The first of these purchases, Marshall & Snelgrove at Oxford Street in London, was acquired in 1919.

( In 1919, the company acquired the Oriental Brewery and Ice Co., transformed the building into an ice plant and cold storage ; later the Royal Soft Drinks Plant.

The Stockholm banks found that there was also an attractive deposit surplus in southern Sweden, and in 1919 Handelsbanken acquired Bankaktiebolaget Södra Sverige with its 67 branch offices.

* The second was a civilian freighter acquired for Navy use during 1918 and 1919.

In 1919, he acquired the Revista do Brasil, one of the first Brazilian cultural magazines, and founded, in 1920, his own publishing house.

* A Great or Grand Burgher ( German Großbürger / Großbürgerin ), historical German title acquired or inherited by persons and family descendants of the ruling class in autonomous German-speaking cities and towns of Central Europe, origin under the Holy Roman Empire, ceased after 1919 along with all titles of German nobility

After WWI the company manufactured automobile engines and acquired a majority interest in Horch Automobile in 1919.