December 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as first female member of British Parliament.
• 05 Dec 1919 The Turkish Ministry of War releases Greeks, Armenians and Jews from military service.
• 10 Dec 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Wilson
• 11 Dec 1919 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
• 13 Dec 1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London.
• 17 Dec 1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day.
• 19 Dec 1919 American Meteorological Society found.
• 20 Dec 1919 US House of Representatives restricts immigration.
• 21 Dec 1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists / feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
• 22 Dec 1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland).
• 23 Dec 1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace.
• 25 Dec 1919 Cliftonhill Stadium in Coatbridge opens (the home of the Albion Rovers F.C.) They lose the match 2–0 to St. Mirren.
• 26 Dec 1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
• 30 Dec 1919 Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
• 03 Dec 1919 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

Famous Birthday

• Albertia Walton

• Rosmary Woods

• Paullette Bourgeois

• Hau Pei-tsun

• Noele Gordon

• Ezekiel Mphahlele

• Ezechiel Mphahlele

• William Lipscomb

• Johfra Bosschart

• Pierre Soulages

• François Chalais

• Jacques Doyasbère
• Eléonore Hirt
• John Dillon

• Michel Etcheverry

• Olivia Barclay

• Jean-Baptiste Doumeng

• Cliff Michelmore

• Ima Roberts

• Heinz Kern

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Famous Deaths

• Luxe Renoir

• Journe Renoir

• Marquet Renoir

• Emmalise Renoir

• Kennede Munk

• Pierre Auguste Renoir

• Theophilus Van Kannel

• Achilles Alferaki

• Hermann Weingärtner

• Woldemar Voigt

• Johannes Rydberg

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• John Alcock

• J. Alden Weir

• William Osler

• Philip Fysh

• Henry Clay Frick built largest coke and steel operation

• Achilles Alferaki composer

• Horatio William Parker composer

• Amintore Galli composer

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Van & Schenck - Mandy
2. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Yearning
3. Charles Hart & Elliot Shaw - Golden Gate
4. Belle Baker - Poor Little Butterfly is a Fly Gal Now
5. Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band - Slide, Kelly, Slide