* 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.

* 1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded.

* 1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

* December 24 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 ( b. 1919 )

The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919.

In 1919, Fokker, owing large sums in back taxes ( including 14, 250, 000 marks of income-tax ), returned to the Netherlands and founded a new company near Amsterdam with the support of Steenkolen Handels Vereniging, now known as SHV Holdings.

From 1919 to 1946 Hertzsprung worked at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands, from 1937 as director.

Johannes Marten den Uijl was born on August 9, 1919 Netherlands Province of North Holland.

This was followed by a period as a stenographer with the Municipal Council of Amsterdam and then between 1907 and 1919 with the States-General of the Netherlands.

In The Hague, the Netherlands, PCGG started broadcasting on November 6, 1919.

* Neutral Moresnet was shared from 1816 until 1919 between the Netherlands ( later Belgium ) and Prussia

Conrad ( Koert ) W. Baars was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands on January 2, 1919.

Having joined the Communist Party of the Netherlands in 1919, he remained a Party member his entire life.

The Eau Rouge has been a border river for several periods in its existence, including an administrative boundary under the Roman Empire between Cologne and Tongeren, and the state border between The Netherlands and Prussia from 1815 to 1839 and then between Belgium and Prussia from 1839 to 1919.

In October 1919 Christian pacifists from 10 different countries met in the Netherlands, in the town of Bilthoven, to establish the “ Movement Towards a Christian International ” later called “ International Fellowship of Reconciliation ”.

Ferdinand Jacobus Domela Nieuwenhuis ( 31 December 1846 – 18 November 1919 ) was the Netherlands ' first prominent socialist.

After having been sworn in as an artillery officer in 1911, he helped to found the army air force, and in 1919 began a course at the Hogere Krijgsschool staff college in the Netherlands.

Jan Flinterman ( 2 October 1919 – 26 December 1992 ) was a racing driver from the Netherlands, born in The Hague.

In January 1919, Lea and a group of officers from his unit, the U. S. 114th Field Artillery, traveled to Kasteel Amerongen in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to seize the recently exiled German Kaiser Wilhelm II and bring Wilhelm II to the Paris Peace Conference for potential trial for war crimes.

Andre " Dries " van der Lof ( 23 August 1919, Emmen – 24 May 1990, Enschede ) was a racing driver from the Netherlands.

Damm filed for a patent ( Swedish patent # 52, 279 ) on a rotor machine on 10 October 1919, three days after Hugo Koch filed a patent for a similar invention in the Netherlands.

He accompanied his commander, Colonel Luke Lea, on an unsanctioned mission to Amerongen in the Netherlands in January 1919 to attempt to arrest the exiled German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, and bring him to the Paris Peace Conference to be tried for war crimes.

In 1919, at the first postwar meeting of the World Council of Churches in the Netherlands, he successfully encouraged the establishment of a commission for religious and national minorities.

Elisabeth " Bep " Voskuijl ( Elli Vossen ) ( 5 July 1919, Amsterdam – 6 May 1983, Amsterdam ) helped conceal Anne Frank and her family from Nazi persecution during the occupation of the Netherlands.

* USS Olympic ( SP-260 ), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

Hendrika " Rie " Wilhelmina Mastenbroek ( 26 February 1919 – 6 November 2003 ) was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.

The aftermath of the war and the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 affected the Olympic Games not only due to new states being created, but also by sanctions against the nations that lost the war and were blamed for starting it.

The count died, under unclear circumstances, in France in 1919, and would not live to see the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924.

Coached by Sam Mussabini ( coach of 100 m Olympic Champions Reggie Walker and Harold Abrahams ), he won the 880 yd and 1 mile at the 1919 AAA championships and then equalled the British record of 4: 16. 8 for 1 mile.

* Robert Bennett ( athlete ) ( 1919 – 1974 ), 1948 Olympic bronze medalist in hammer throw

At the 1919 Olympic Congress, the delegates agreed to include long track speed skating in the 1916 Olympics, after figure skating had featured in the 1908 Olympics.

* Grigory Novak ( 1919 – 1980 ), Soviet Olympic weightlifter

* Laila Schou Nilsen ( 1919 – 1998 ), Norwegian Olympic skater and skier

Leslie Norman Ross ( 2 May 1895 Portland, Oregon — 19 June 1953 Evanston, Illinois ) was a United States Olympic swimmer who won five events at the Inter-Allied Games in June 1919, held at Joinville-Le-Pont near Paris and three gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.

* John Reid ( sailor ) ( born 1919 ), American Olympic sailor

* Delfo Cabrera ( 1919 – 1981 ), Argentinian athlete, 1948 Olympic medalist

In 1919 – 1952 the Orgburo was also elected in the same manner as the Politburo and the Secretariat by the plenums of the Central Committee.

In 1919, the Cabinet's Secret Service Committee, chaired by Lord Curzon, recommended that a peace-time codebreaking agency should be created, a task given to the then-Director of Naval Intelligence, Hugh Sinclair.

Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.

During and after the World War I, Lowry acted as Director of Shell-filling ( 1917 – 1919 ) and worked for the Trench Warfare Committee, Chemical Warfare Committee and Ordnance Committee.

In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.

He also became the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern when it was created in March 1919.

He served as a clerk of the Judicial Committee for the 1919 Session of the California State Assembly ( 1919 – 1920 ), and as the deputy city attorney of Oakland ( 1920 – 25 ).

At 11: 00 a. m. on June 26, 1919, the Central Strike Committee officially called off the strike and the strikers returned to work.

Starting in September 1919, with the Government, now led by David Lloyd George, committed under all circumstances to implementing Home Rule, the British cabinet's Committee for Ireland, under the chairmanship of former Ulster Unionist Party leader Walter Long, pushed for a radical new idea.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ( 1919 – 1924 ), Lodge led the successful fight against American participation in the League of Nations, which had been proposed by President Wilson at the close of World War I.

The Indian freedom movement struggle also grew in momentum in Thrissur after a Committee was formed in 1919 of the Indian National Congress.

When Britain's Government Committee on Intelligence decided to slash Kell's budget and staff and subordinate MI5 under a new Home Office Civil Intelligence Directorate led by Special Branch's Sir Basil Thomson in January 1919, the powerful MI5 / Special Branch partnership that admirably managed counterintelligence and subversives during the war was suddenly thrown into disarray.

In 1919, the General Assembly created a Church and Nation Committee, which in 2005 became the Church and Society Council.

Younghusband was elected President of the Royal Geographical Society in 1919, and two years later became Chairman of the Mount Everest Committee which was set up to coordinate the initial 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest.

Fry was its co-editor between 1909 and 1919 ( first with Lionel Cust, then with Cust and More Adey ) but his influence on the Burlington Magazine continued until his death: Fry was in the Consultative Committee of the Burlington since its beginnings and when he left the editorship, following a dispute with Cust and Adey regarding the editorial policy on modern art, he was able to use his influence on the Committee to choose the successor he considered appropriate, Robert Rattray Tatlock.

In September 1919, a grenade attack at a meeting of the Moscow Committee of the Bolshevik Party was used as a pretext for mass arrests of anarchists all over Russia by Bolshevik Red Army forces and the Cheka.

Rutherford served on the Loan Advisory Committee of the Soldier Settlement Board after the war, was President of the Alberta Historical Society ( which had been created by his government ) from 1919 until his death, was elected President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Alberta in 1922, and spent the last years of his life as honorary president of the Canadian Authors Association.

In 1921, he was elected to the Congress Working Committee and served as the General Secretary of the party before making his first major breakthrough as a leader during the 1922 Indian National Congress session at Gaya when he strongly opposed collaboration with the colonial administration and participation in the diarchial legislatures established by the Government of India Act 1919.

While in the Senate, Nelson was involved in the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, the passage of the Nelson Bankruptcy Act in 1898, and serving on the Overman Committee from 1918 to 1919.