May 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages.
• 03 May 1919 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain.
• 04 May 1919 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
• 05 May 1919 The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris.
• 06 May 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German Southwest Africa to South Africa.
• 08 May 1919 Appingedam soccer team forms.
• 09 May 1919 In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage and gives the franchise to certain classes of women.
• 10 May 1919 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8.
• 14 May 1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta.
• 15 May 1919 Brooklyn Dodgers score ten runs in 13th to beat Cincinnati Reds 10-0.
• 17 May 1919 The British War Department orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
• 19 May 1919 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
• 20 May 1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550.
• 23 May 1919 The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
• 25 May 1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap.
• 27 May 1919 1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
• 29 May 1919 Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceara, Brazil.
• 30 May 1919 By agreement with the United Kingdom, later confirmed by the League of Nations, Belgium is given the mandate over part of German East Africa (Ruanda-Urundi).
• 31 May 1919 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic

Famous Birthday

• Eva Peron

  Argentine First Lady (Born 1919).

• Liberace

  American musician and entertainer known for his music, his trademark candelabra, his flamboyant lifestyle and highly affected mannerisms.

• Gayatri Devi

  Indian royalty, born in London, the granddaughter of the Princess Indira Gaekwar of Baroda.

• Geneva (Switzerland)
• Pete Seeger

  American folk singer.

• Margot Fonteyn

  British dancer, one of the world's outstanding ballerinas for 45 years.

• Pierre Charpy

  Lyon 6éme Journalist.

• Lex Barker

  American actor best known for playing Tarzan of the Apes and leading characters from Karl May's novels.

• Elina Labourdette
• Rubén González (pianist)
• Valencia (Spain)
• André Diligent

  French politician, lawyer.

• François-Louis Deschamps
• Jean Cornec

  Logonna-Daoulas EXecutives.

• Christian Dovéro
• Paul Vanden Boeynants
• Maurice Siegel
• Than Wyenn
• Betty Garrett

  American actress who began with Broadway musicals as a comedy star in her youth.

• Pierre Brambilla
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Famous Deaths

• Frank Lyman Baum

  Author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62.

• L Frank Baum

  American writer (Born 1856).

• Gustav Landauer German socialist

  dies.

• Bohumil Pazdirek composer

  dies at age 80.

• Jacob Verdam philosopher

  dies.

• Amado Nervo [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo] Mexican poet

  dies at age 48.

• Madame C J Walker wealthy cosmetics manufacturer

  dies at age 51.

• Lord John Raleigh British physicist (Nobel Prize 1904)

  dies.

• Milan Rastislav Stefanik

  Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (Born 1880).

• Henry J Heinz

  German-American businessman, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (Born 1844).

• Yevgraf Fyodorov

  Russian mathematician (Born 1853).

• Madam C J Walker

  American philanthropist and tycoon (Born 1867).

• Kandukuri Veeresalingam

  Indian author and activist (d. 1919).

• Robert Bacon

  American colonel and politician 39th United States Secretary of State (d. 1919).

• Guido von List

  Austrian-German journalist and poet (d. 1919).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Prince's Orchestra - Till We Meet Again
2. Marion Harris - A Good Man is Hard to Find
3. Victor Military Band - Marche Francaise
4. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Sometime
5. Byron G. Harlan - How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)