* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

He was habilitated in neurology in 1919 and in 1924 became professor of neurology.

By 1919, the SANNC was leading a campaign against passes but then became dormant in the mid-1920s.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

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.

It became the basis of the German Armistice ( really a surrender ) and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

Drexel's cornerstone of the career preparation, the cooperative education program, was introduced in 1919. The program became integral to the university's unique educational experience.

What became of it is unclear, and Neutral Moresnet was annexed to Belgium in the Treaty of Versailles, 1919.

After the Estonian War of Independence in 1919, the Estonian language became the state language of the newly independent country.

Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses.

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 ".

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.

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 ).

In 1919, it became obvious that Bertrand would refuse to allow an open election to choose his successor.

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

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.

* Radio Amateur News — July 1919 to July 1920 — dropped the word " amateur " and became just Radio News

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

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.

The three races offered the largest purse and in 1919 Sir Barton became the first horse to win all three races.

After the October Revolution ( 1917 ), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission ( all from 1918 – 1919 ).

When Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919, Feininger was his first faculty appointment, and became the master artist in charge of the printmaking workshop.

In 1919 he became Lecturer in Medieval history at Strasbourg University, after the German professors were all expelled ; he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

In May 1919, it was incorporated with nominal autonomy into Czechoslovakia.

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (; June 3, 1946 ), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as " Kalinych ," was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union, from 1919 to 1946.

Irgash faced rival commanders such as Madamin Bay, who was supported by more moderate Muslim factions, but he secured formal, nominal leadership of the movement at a council in March 1919.

Unhappy with the way that editors Max and Crystal Eastman and a few others were able to live off the struggling magazine, while he received a nominal fee or worked pro bono, Young left The Liberator in 1919 to start a magazine of his own, Good Morning.

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.

Commander Alastair Denniston, was operational head of GC & CS from its formation from the Admiralty's Room 40 ( NID25 ) and the War Office's MI1b in 1919, until 1942.

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.

The rise of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 saw an increase in support for monarchism, however efforts by Hungarian monarchists failed to bring back a royal head of state, and the monarchists settled for a regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, to represent the monarchy until it could be restored.

The office of President of Germany was first created in 1919, replacing the emperor as head of state, with Friedrich Ebert ( SPD ) serving as the first president.

He was not the head of the French military mission which had arrived earlier ( 1919 ) and was headed by General Henrys.

A documentary entitled The Gift of the Ouachita by filmmaker George C. Brian ( 1919 – 2007 ), head of the Division of Theater and Drama at the University of Louisiana at Monroe is a history of Monroe as the " gift of the Ouachita River.

* Henry Clay Frick II ( 1919 – 2007 ), physician and head of the Frick Collection.

* Harvey Johnson ( 1919 – 1983 ), served as head coach for the National Football League's Buffalo Bills.

The number of ministers was increased and, while as established in 1919 the Irish Republic had no explicit head of state, in 1921 the head of the Aireacht was renamed as ' President of the Republic '.

Holbrook returned to the United States in May 1919 and commanded Camp Bragg, North Carolina, from May 16, 1919 until July 1, 1919, when he became the head of the Artillery Department of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The territory around the Vieille Montagne zinc mine in Kelmis was semi-independent during 1816 – 1919 as Neutral Moresnet, with the Mayor of Kelmis as head of state.

Since 1919, Irish Finance Minister, head of the secretive Irish Republican Brotherhood and IRA Chief of Intelligence Michael Collins had operated a clandestine " Squad " of IRA members in Dublin ( a. k. a. " The Twelve Apostles "), which was used to assassinate RIC and British Intelligence officers.

Mitchell received appointment on February 28, 1919, as Director of Military Aeronautics, to head the flying component of the Air Service, but that office was in name only as it was a wartime agency that would expire six months after the signing of a peace treaty.

The dominant leaders in the new unilaterally declared Irish Republic were figures like Éamon de Valera, President of Dáil Éireann ( 1919 – 21 ), President of the Republic ( 1921 – 1922 ), and Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, head of the IRB and the Irish Republican Army's Director of Intelligence.

During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".

After a nationalist rising in the spring of 1919 Milner was appointed to head an inquiry, and in summer 1920 he proposed that Egypt be granted autonomy.

Shoeless Joe ( 1982 ), his first novel, blends fantasy and magical realism to tell the story of a poor Iowa farmer who, yielding to voices in his head, builds a baseball field in his corn field that attracts the spirits of the 1919 Chicago White Sox.

The PLA head Office at Trinity Square Gardens was built by John Mowlem & Co and completed in 1919.

His father, Krishan Chopra ( 1919 – 2001 ) was a prominent Indian cardiologist, head of the department of medicine and cardiology at Mool Chand Khairati Ram Hospital, New Delhi, for over 25 years, and a lieutenant in the British army.