August 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1919 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
• 03 Aug 1919 Romanian army liberates Timișoara from the Hungarian occupation.
• 04 Aug 1919 Romanian army occupies Budapest.
• 06 Aug 1919 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest
• 10 Aug 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
• 11 Aug 1919 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
• 13 Aug 1919 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
• 14 Aug 1919 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
• 16 Aug 1919 August 26 ampndash First Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.
• 18 Aug 1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago Illinois
• 19 Aug 1919 Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 20 Aug 1919 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak
• 24 Aug 1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
• 28 Aug 1919 General John Smuts becomes Premier of South Africa
• 31 Aug 1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago

Famous Birthday

• Kitty Wells

  American country-western singer so popular in the decades from the 1950s to the early 1970s that she earned the moniker "The Queen of...

• Menie Grégoire
• Dino De Laurentiis

  Italian-American major film producer.

• George Wallace

  American politician who was the Democratic Governor of Alabama, beginning in 1963, for three terms.

• Ginette Neveu

  French classical violinist, she died in a plane crash en route to New-York with her brother Jean (and with boxer Marcel Cerdan), aged 30.

• Gustave Dominici
• Roger Stéphane
• Michel Déon

  French novelist and literary columnist.

• François Soubeyran

  French singer, a member of Les Frères Jacques, a vocal-mime quartet active from 1946 to 1982 (alongside André Bellec, Georges Bellec and...

• Godfrey Hounsfield

  English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004).

• Pierre Oliver

  Nancy Painters.

• Michel Ciry

  French artist, painter, etcher, and graphic designer.

• Joop den Uyl

  Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 (Born 1919).

• Antonis Samarakis
• Pauline Betz

  American tennis player and champion of the Wimbledon Women's Singles in 1946.

• Isaac C Kidd Jr
• Sacha Vierny

  French cinematographer recognized for his collaborations with Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, notably the film "Last Year at Marienbad,"...

• Claude Larre
• Bernard Michel
• George Shearing

  Anglo-American jazz pianist (Born 1919).

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Famous Deaths

• Johann Sigurjonsson

  Icelandic writer (Dr Rung).

• Joseph E Seagram

  Canadian distillery founder (Born 1841).

• Greg MacGregor

  England cricketer (Born 1869).

• Andrew Carnegie

  Scottish-American industrialist who consolidated his steel industries in 1899.

• Ernst Haeckel

  German biologist, zoologist, evolutionist, naturalist, philosopher, physician and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of...

• Ruggiero Leoncavallo

  Italian opera composer.

• Dave Gregory

  English guitarist and keyboard player (XTC and Big Big Train).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Fred Van Eps - Oh, Susy, Behave
2. John Steel - A Rose, a Kiss, and You
3. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - Somebody's Waiting for Someone
4. Conway's Band - Spirt of Independence March
5. Al Jolson - I'll Say She Does