WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1919
Find out what all happened April to December 1919

Estonian War of Independence: the decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cesis. This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia. (23. June 1919)

Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence. (11. November 1919)

Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day. (8. May 1919)

The Netherlands gives women the right to vote. (18. September 1919)

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

The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted. (11. August 1919)

Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.) (28. November 1919)

Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. (13. April 1919)

Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US. (28. September 1919)

The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. (22. September 1919)

May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. (4. May 1919)

RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. (17. October 1919)

A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. (16. May 1919)

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

Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. (10. September 1919)

U.S. Marines invade Honduras. (11. September 1919)

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. (2. October 1919)

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

The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities. (7. November 1919)

King George V of the United Kingdom proclaims Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day). The idea is first suggested by Edward George Honey. (17. November 1919)