At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

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 Bald Knobbers, an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri, wearing crude " blackface " masks typical of the post-Reconstruction era in the United States -- as portrayed in the 1919 film, The Shepherd of the Hills.

The Thompson is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, that became infamous during the Prohibition era.

This was followed by upgrades to the other former excursion roads, and the opening of the New West End Terminal in 1919, thus ushering in Coney Island's busiest era.

Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ), The Motorist ( 1906 ), Conquest of the Pole ( 1912 ), Himmelskibet ( 1918 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), L ' Huomo Meccanico ( 1921 ), Paris Qui Dort ( 1923 ), Aelita ( 1924 ), Luch Smerti ( 1925 ) and The Lost World ( 1925 ).

The early NFL era franchise was variously called the Buffalo All-Stars from 1915 to 1917, Buffalo Niagaras in 1918, the Buffalo Prospects in 1919, Buffalo All-Americans from 1920 – 1923, Buffalo Bisons from 1924 – 1925, 1927 and 1929, and the Buffalo Rangers in 1926.

In the immediate post-war era, Junkers used their J8 layout as the basis for the F-13, first flown on 25 June 1919 and certified airworthy in July of the same year.

A ' vintage car ' is commonly defined as a car built between the start of 1919 and the end of 1930 known as the ' Vintage era '.

Among smaller automobile manufacturers was Franklin that produced high-quality luxury cars during the 1919 to 1930 vintage era.

After the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, World War I in 1916-1918, and the disastrous Greco – Turkish War of 1919 – 1922, there were diplomatic approaches from the superpowers of that era regarding the re-drawing of Greek borders, based on Turkey and Bulgaria pressing for more territory to improve trade routes with the British Empire.

" The current building was the product of one of the most brilliant architects of the era, Sabàs Honoré, who reconstructed the theater after the June 1919 fire.

Of course today, these key 1930s events look different to careful scholars of the era ( see the work of Barry Eichengreen " Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919 – 1939 " and " How to Prevent a Currency War ") in particular devaluations today are viewed by advanced scholars with far greater nuance.

In South American and international club football, Boca Juniors has won 18 titles, a world record shared with A. C. Milan, although Boca also won two international official titles during the amateur era, the Tie Cup in 1919 and the Copa de Honor Cousenier in 1920

Founded in 1919, the UPR became the dominant party in Alsace during the Interwar era.

The drink was developed in 1919 by the Schoenhofen Brewery of Chicago as a non-alcoholic product for the Prohibition era.

Its greatest era as a literary journal was between 1919 and 1926, when Jessie Redmon Fauset was literary editor.

After returning from military service, Taylor went on to direct some of the great stars of the era including Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, Dustin Farnum and his protégée, Mary Miles Minter, who starred in the 1919 version of Anne of Green Gables.

" To " allay President Wilson ’ s suspicions of British imperialism ," the system of ’ mandates ’ was drawn up and agreed to by the British War Cabinet ( with the French and Italians in tow ), a device by which conquered enemy territory would be held not as a possession but as ‘ sacred trusts .’ But " far from envisaging the eventual independence of the German colonies, Allied statesmen at the Paris Conference regarded 1919 as the renewal, not the end, of an imperial era.

Mrs. du Pont was a progressive woman for her era, and her passion was prison reform ; in 1919 she courageously helped found Delaware's Prisoners Aid Society as well as Bridge House, a detention home for juvenile offenders.

Sheet music for Irene ( musical ) | IreneHarry Austin Tierney ( May 21, 1890 – March 22, 1965 ) was a successful American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene ( 1919 ), Broadway's longest-running show of the era ( 620 performances ), Kid Boots ( 1923 ) and Rio Rita ( 1927 ), one of the first musicals to be turned into a talking picture ( and later remade starring Abbott and Costello ).

The Nordiques hold the distinction of being the only major professional sports team to have been based in Quebec City in the modern era, and one of only two ever ; the other, the Quebec Bulldogs, played one season in the NHL in 1919 – 20.

Famous plays of this second golden era were The Dybbuk ( 1919 ), by S. Ansky, considered a revolutionary play in both Yiddish and mainstream theatre, The Golem by H. Leivick ( 1888 – 1962 ), as well as the plays of Sholem Aleichem.

In baseball, the dead-ball era was the period between around 1900 ( though some date it to the beginning of baseball ) and the emergence of Babe Ruth as a power hitter in 1919.

Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

The research continued throughout World War I until 1919, when the now avirulent bacilli were unable to cause tuberculosis disease in research animals.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.

Hoover confronted a world of political possibilities when he returned home in 1919.

The fear was increased when, on the very day the new national parliament was meeting, 21 January 1919, members of the IRA Third Tipperary Brigade led by Seán Treacy and Dan Breen seized a quantity of gelignite and two Royal Irish Constabulary constables ( James McDonnell and Patrick O ' Connell ) were shot dead in the process.

In Europe, English received a more central role particularly since 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was composed not only in French, the common language of diplomacy at the time, but, under special request from American president Woodrow Wilson, also in English-a major milestone in the globalisation of English.

* 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

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

In 1919, when he was twenty years old, Beria started his career in state security, when he was hired by the security service of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic while still a student at the Polytechnicum.

Mao's time in Peking came to an end in the spring of 1919, when he traveled to Shanghai with friends departing from the port for France.

* 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 begins when 40, 000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

He became a founder of the Dresden Secession group in 1919, during a period when his work was passing through an expressionist phase.

* 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919.

The only exception has been Hal Colebatch, a member of the Legislative Council who accepted the premiership in April 1919 on the understanding that an Assembly seat would be found for him, only to resign a month later when no seat could be found.

GE used RCA as its retail arm for radio sales from 1919, when GE began production, until 1930.

In 1919, when Howard was thirteen, Dr. Howard moved his family to the Central Texas hamlet of Cross Plains, and there the family would stay for the rest of Howard's life.

Fighting in Carinthia lasted between December 1918 and June 1919, when the Slovene volunteers and the regular Serbian Army managed to occupy the city of Klagenfurt.

In a case of life imitating art, d ' Annunzio appropriated the salute as a neo-imperial ritual when he led the occupation of Fiume in 1919.