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In 1919, at the end of the First World War, Versailles was put in the limelight again as the various treaties ending the war were signed in the castle proper and in the Grand Trianon.
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* 1919 – Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India.
* 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
Carnegie's grave site at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York. The footstone of Andrew CarnegieCarnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.
In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.
* Frank Laurence Lucas, ' The Battlefield of Pharsalos ', Annual of the British School at Athens, No. XXIV, 1919 – 21
Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from Boston to New York was sold at auction for $ 996, 000 at Sotheby's on June 10, 2005.
* Marburg's Bloody Sunday ( 1919 ), a massacre of civilians of German ethnic origin in Maribor during the protest at the central city square
A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921.
Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.
The club play at The Valley in Charlton, where they have played since 1919, apart from one year in Catford, during 1923 – 24, and seven years at Crystal Palace and West Ham United between 1985 – 1992.
The first match at this site, now known as the club's current ground The Valley, was in September 1919.
However at the 8th Party Congress held in 1919, the Political Bureau ( Politburo ) was established to respond to questions needing immediate responses.
With the removal of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919, Britain had no naval enemies, and at the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 it was agreed that the USA, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 5: 5: 3, with France and Italy maintaining smaller fleets.
Using the civil unrest in India as an excuse to move troops to the Durand Line, Afghan troops crossed the border at the western end of the Khyber Pass on 3 May 1919 and occupied the village of Bagh, the scene of an earlier uprising in April.
In January 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who were not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, convened the First Dáil and established the Irish Republic.
Edwin Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson, California, in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest telescope.
The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).
* The New Zealanders at Gallipoli ( 1919 ) eText
From 1919 – 1922, he studied agronomy at the Munich Technische Hochschule ( now Technical University Munich ) following a brief apprenticeship on a farm and a subsequent illness.
In 1919 he established the Hoover War Collection at Stanford University.
Total deaths from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within the 1919 – 1939 borders, were estimated at 1, 128, 000.
The Kingdom of Italy at the 1919 Paris " Conference of Peace " received nothing from German colonies, but as a compensation Great Britain gave it the Oltre Giuba and France agreed to give some Saharan territories to the Italian Libya.
The League of Nations was established in 1919 at the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I.
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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.
After the end of the First World War, a chalk quarry known as the Swamps was identified as Charlton's new ground, and in the summer of 1919 work began to create the level playing area and remove debris from the site.
By the end of the war such films formed an appreciable but minor part of production: e. g. The Gun Woman ( F. Borzage, 1918 ) and Jubilo ( Clarence Badger, 1919 ).
Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).
After the end of the war in June 1919 the German fleet interned in Scapa Flow was scuttled by its crews, to avoid its ships being taken over by the victorious allies.
By the end of 1919, four Dublin Metropolitan Police and 11 RIC men had been killed.
* 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.
* 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
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.
After the end of World War I, the bulk of the Navy's modern ships ( 74 in all ) were interned at Scapa Flow where the entire fleet ( with a few exceptions ) was scuttled by its crews on 21 June 1919 on orders from its commander, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter.
In 1919, a few months after the end of the war, the 20-year-old aspiring writer arrived in Paris and found jobs as a prompter at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and as a journalist for various publications, including the major daily newspaper, Le Figaro.
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.
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.
Wilson began to recover by the end of 1919, but remained secluded for the remainder of his term, steadfast in his refusal or inability to accept changes to the treaty.
At the end of World War I, as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles restricted the total tonnage of the German surface fleet.
The German claims were made at the time when Germany was waging a propaganda campaign to end the Allied blockade of Germany after the armistice that lasted from November 1918 until June 1919.
Albion won the Football League title in 1919 – 20 for the only time in their history following the end of the First World War, their totals of 104 goals and 60 points both breaking the previous league records.
They first coined the term " photomontage " at the end of the war, around 1918 or 1919.
Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).
Hermann Zapf was born in Nuremberg during turbulent times marked by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of World War I, the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free state by Kurt Eisner.
At the end of World War I the city became part of the newly independent Second Polish Republic, as the capital of the Białystok Voivodeship ( 1919 – 1939 ).
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