January 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1919 Belorussian SSR established.
• 02 Jan 1919 Anti-British uprising in Ireland.
• 05 Jan 1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
• 06 Jan 1919 Tragic week (Argentina)
• 07 Jan 1919 Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
• 09 Jan 1919 Friedrich Ebert orders the Freikorps into action in Berlin.
• 10 Jan 1919 January 12 ampndash The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin, Germany.
• 11 Jan 1919 Romania annexes Transylvania.
• 13 Jan 1919 Dutch Soccer team OSV forms.
• 14 Jan 1919 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge McQuade buy New York Giants.
• 15 Jan 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
• 16 Jan 1919 Prohibition ratified by 3 / 4 of states; Nebraska is 36th
• 18 Jan 1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
• 21 Jan 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland.
• 22 Jan 1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
• 23 Jan 1919 The Uprising of Khotin breaks out in Khotyn, Ukraine.
• 25 Jan 1919 Founding of League of Nations, first meeting one year later.
• 29 Jan 1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition).
• 31 Jan 1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.

Famous Birthday

• J D Salinger

  American novelist (Born 1919).

• Maurice Herzog

  French politician who was also a mountaineer and alpinist.

• Jackie Robinson

  American athlete, a baseball player who first stepped up to the plate to play pro ball as a 28-year-old rookie for the Brooklyn Dodgers in...

• Jackie Robinson

  American athlete, a baseball player who first stepped up to the plate to play pro ball as a 28-year-old rookie for the Brooklyn Dodgers in...

• Giulio Andreotti

  Italian politician, prime minister seven times, high-ranking minister to most of Italy's 50-odd Cabinets since WW II, devout acquaintance of...

• Robert Stack

  American actor nominated for seven Emmys, winning one in 1960 for his series "The Untouchables.

• Carole Landis

  Fairchild, Wisconsin -- Actress (One Million BC, Topper Returns).

• Jinx Falkenburg

  Barcelona, Spain -- Actress (Masquerade Party).

• Gina Ceaglio

  American pro astrologer since 1960, writer, teacher, lecturer and counselor.

• Roger Nicolas
• Robert Duncan

  American major contemporary poet, considered a presiding voice of the San Francisco Bay area specifically, which he helped establish as a...

• Jacques Laurent

  French journalist, novelist and essayist, who published under various pseudonyms.

• Wilson Ferreira Aldunate
• Jacques Mauclair

  French film actor who appeared in 30 films between 1950 and 2000.

• Sheila Mercier

  British actress, a longtime star of the TV soap "Emmerdale Farm.

• Dominique Davray
• Al Blozis

  American track & field athlete.

• Tony Golab

  Canadian football fullback called the "golden boy.

• Gabrielle Blunt
• Bones McKinney
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Famous Deaths

• John C F

  Son of English King George V, dies at 13.

• Henry Ware

  Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (Born 1843).

• Gojong of Joseon

  Emperor of Korea (Born 1852).

• Peter Altenberg writer

  dies at age 59.

• Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

  two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.

• Jaroslav Jeremias composer

  dies at age 19.

• Paul Lindau German playwright/critic (Estimate)

  dies at age 79.

• Sumako Matsui

  Japanese actress and singer (Born 1886).

• Max Heindel

  Danish-American occultist who was a Christian disciple and a Theosophist for three years prior to founding the Rosicrucian Fellowship of the...

• Karl Liebknecht

  German Social Democrat, who, with Rosa Luxemburg and other radicals, founded the Spartakusbund (Spartacus League), a Berlin underground...

• Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves

  Brazilian politician 5th President of Brazil (d. 1919).

• Georg von Hertling

  German academic and politician 7th Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1919).

• Mikhail Drozdovsky

  Ukrainian-Russian general (d. 1918).

• Endre Ady

  Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bert Williams - O Death, Where is Thy Sting?
2. Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Anitra's Dance)
3. Henry Burr - Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Back Home
4. Orpheus Quartet - When You Come Back, and You Will Come Back
5. Al Jolson - Tell That to the Marines