WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1919
Find out what all happened April to July 1919

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job. (15. May 1919)

Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. (10. April 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. (19. 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)

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)

Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I. (21. June 1919)

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

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