WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1919
Find out what all happened April to November 1919

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

German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14. (31. July 1919)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series. (3. October 1919)

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

The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship. (6. July 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)

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

Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown. (11. June 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 Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. (11. November 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)

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)

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