But in tests the White Hawk could barely top the record breaking speed of Bell's 1919 HD-4.

Lewis's clarinet playing barely evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and Don Murray to play clarinet in his band.

Construction on Orchestra Hall began on June 6, 1919, and was completed in barely five months.

The first Revkom was founded on January 16, 1919 and barely lasted two weeks before its members were thrown out of the town and summarily executed.

The Supreme Audit Office (, abbreviated NIK ) is the supreme audit institution and also one of the oldest state institutions in Poland, created under the Second Republic on February 7, 1919, barely 3 months after the restoration of Poland's independence.

Meanwhile, the year 1919 saw the start of the tenure of Bill Veeck, Sr. as team president.

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.

In 1919, the year tetrodes were invented, William Henry Eccles coined the term diode from the Greek roots di ( from δί ), meaning " two ", and ode ( from ὁδός ), meaning " path ".

His father died the following year, 1919.

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

The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area ( the Free City of Danzig, Memel Territory, and Saar ), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on May 7 of that year.

Margaret studied one year, 1919, at DePauw University, then transferred to Barnard College where she earned her bachelor's degree in 1923.

" Concurrently with these exceptions, Jehovah's Witnesses in their literature and assemblies have taught their leadership was personally chosen by Jesus Christ in 1919 ( a prophetic year in JW eschatology ) and that they are " God's sole channel on earth ", and " Jehovah's spirit directed organization ".

Beginning in 1919, Steiner was called upon to assist with numerous practical activities ( see below ), including the first Waldorf school, founded that year in Stuttgart, Germany.

In 1919, Steiner's chief work on social reform ( English title: Toward Social Renewal ) was released simultaneously in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and sold some 80, 000 copies in the first year.

In 1919, a national assembly was convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, then adopted on 11 August of that same year.

Year 1919 ( MCMXIX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.

Later that year, the struggling company was taken over by James H. Whiting ( 1842 – 1919 ), who moved it to his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and brought in William C. Durant in 1904 to manage his new acquisition.

The Monmouthshire Show ( formerly the Monmouth Show ) has been held each year, traditionally on the last Thursday of August, since 1919, though its history can be traced back to 1857.

In October 1919, Albert went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history, economics and civics for a year.

By 1919, the year he founded the British Psychoanalytical Society, Jones could report proudly to Freud that psychoanalysis in Britain “ stands in the forefront of medical, literary and psychological interest ” ( letter 27 January 1919 ( Paskauskas 1993 )).

The DAP ( Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or German Workers ' Party ) was formed in Munich in January 1919 and Adolf Hitler joined it in September of that year.

The children refused to accept this story, so Baum, in 1913 and every year thereafter until his death in May 1919, wrote an Oz book.

The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation.

She held this post until 1919, a year after the first women had been granted the vote.

Originally created as Lafayette National Park in 1919, the first National Park East of the Mississippi, The forest fire was one of a series of fires that consumed much of Maine's forest as a result of a dry year.

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.

* 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.

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.