WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1919
Find out what all happened February to June 1919

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

The Polish–Soviet War begins. (14. February 1919)

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

German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. (21. February 1919)

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight. (27. May 1919)

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. (29. May 1919)

Sette giugno: Four people were killed in a riot in Malta. (7. June 1919)

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. (5. February 1919)

Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. (25. February 1919)

In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. (23. March 1919)

Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. (16. April 1919)

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

The Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. (1. April 1919)

The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. (21. March 1919)

The Republic of Prekmurje ends. (6. June 1919)

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

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike. (21. June 1919)

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight. (14. June 1919)

The Republic of Prekmurje is founded. (29. May 1919)

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

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