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.

Famous Birthday

• Johfra Bosschart

  Dutch artist, a magical-realistic painter, who became internationally known through his paintings of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

• Pierre Soulages

  French painter who was one of the most important of a group of abstract artists out of Paris who came into prominence after WW II.

• François Chalais

  French journalist, a newspaper reporter, film critic and TV director; work known in France.

• Jacques Doyasbère
• Eléonore Hirt
• John Dillon

  American military, rear admiral.

• Michel Etcheverry

  France Actor.

• Olivia Barclay

  British astrologer, the founder of a qualifying horary diploma course.

• Jean-Baptiste Doumeng

  Lacasse EXecutives.

• Cliff Michelmore

  English television host and producer.

• Ima Roberts

  American astrologer, the co-author of "Signs and Parts in Plain English" with her husband Press Roberts and Don Borkowski in 1975.

• Heinz Kern

  German author and astrologer; he worked for 36 years in the industrial field.

• Guglielmo Zucconi

  Italian TV journalist.

• John Candies

  American child prodigy, a math wizard who was able to do complex problems in his head at age 10.

• Eric Newby
• Sesto Bruscantini
• Harrison A Williams
• Inocenti Carreno

  composer.

• Manke Nelis

  [Cornelis Pieters] Dutch folk vocalist (Small Yodel Boy).

• Ellen Stewart

  Actress / founder (La Mama Theatre Group).

• See more

Famous Deaths

• Henry Clay Frick built largest coke and steel operation

  dies at age 69.

• Pierre A Renoir French painter/sculptor

  dies at age 78.

• Amintore Galli composer

  dies at age 74.

• Horatio William Parker composer

  dies at age 56.

• Achilles Alferaki composer

  dies at age 73.

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  French Impressionist artist, one of the foremost artists of his time and of the Impressionist movement.

• John Alcock

  Pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27.

• Woldemar Voigt

  German physicist and academic (d. 1919).

• Johannes Rydberg

  Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1919).

• See more

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