April 1919 calendar

April 1919
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1919.
The US president was Woodrow Wilson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was David Lloyd George (Liberal), Pope Benedict XV was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on April 1919: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of April 1919?

Events

03 Apr 1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers.
05 Apr 1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana.
06 Apr 1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
10 Apr 1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
11 Apr 1919 The International Labour Organization is founded.
12 Apr 1919 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages.
13 Apr 1919 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists
14 Apr 1919 The Emperor of Austria moves to exile in Switzerland.
15 Apr 1919 Save the Children Fund set up in the UK to raise money for the relief of German and Austrian children.
16 Apr 1919 Polish : Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
19 Apr 1919 Opera Monsieur Beaucaire is produced
20 Apr 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army.
21 Apr 1919 The US Victory Liberty Loan offers $4.5 billion in bonds.
23 Apr 1919 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season.
30 Apr 1919 Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.

Famous Birthday

Gérard Oury
French actor director and screenwriter (d. 2006).
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Jackie Sardou
André Bettencourt
French politician, Secretary of State.
René Duvillier
French painter of the new Paris school, spent five years as German prisoner of war in Ukraine and Poland.
Georges de Caunes
Merce Cunningham
American dancer, choreographer, innovator and recognized leader of avant-gardists.
Ian Douglas Smith
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Italian fencer and winner of five Olympic Gold Medals, five Silver Medals, three Bronze Medals and 13 times world champion in sword and...
Alexander Marr
Swiss-born German astrologer, he moved to Germany at age one.
Jo Privat
French musician, an accordion player known as the ‘’white gypsy’’ and the ‘’king of Lappe street.
Stanley Yolles
American educator and the nation's top official on mental health in the '60s.
Howard Keel
American actor and singer (d. 2004).
Oleg Penkovsky
Russian Colonel in the military, an intelligence member and an undercover agent.
John Taras
Roger Pigaut
France Actor.
François Brigneau
Nilla Pizzi
Italian singer (d. 2011).
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
Jeannie de Clarens
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