WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1919
Find out what all happened January to July 1919

Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities. (2. June 1919)

Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. (21. January 1919)

Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. (16. April 1919)

The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. (13. April 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. (16. January 1919)

Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. (4. June 1919)

The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I. (28. June 1919)

The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. (31. January 1919)

150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. (20. June 1919)

Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall. (19. July 1919)

President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park - the Grand Canyon National Park. (26. February 1919)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. (18. January 1919)

Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. (19. April 1919)

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown. (11. June 1919)

The International Labour Organization is founded. (11. April 1919)

The first Communist International meets in Moscow. (2. March 1919)

John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. (15. June 1919)

The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing 12 people. (21. July 1919)

At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. (3. January 1919)

The five-day Seattle General Strike begins. (6. February 1919)

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