November 1919 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1919 The Coal Strike of 1919 begins. The United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis announce a strike for November 1, 1919. Final agreement comes on December 10.
• 07 Nov 1919 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
• 09 Nov 1919 Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies, marking the first cartoon character to become popular.
• 11 Nov 1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political / business views
• 12 Nov 1919 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
• 14 Nov 1919 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
• 16 Nov 1919 After Entente pressure Romanian forces withdraw from Budapest and let Admiral Horthy to march in.
• 19 Nov 1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations.
• 22 Nov 1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
• 27 Nov 1919 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies and Bulgaria
• 28 Nov 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British Parliament.
• 30 Nov 1919 Health officials declare that the global Spanish Flu pandemic has ended.

Famous Birthday

• Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Russian general and engineer designed the AK-47 (d. 2013).

• René la Canne
• Portland (Oregon)
• Moise Tshombe

  Congolese accountant and politician Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1969).

• Henri Vidal

  French film actor who made his film debut alongside Edith Piaf in the movie Montmartre-sur-Seine in 1941.

• François Périer

  French stage/film actor.

• Félix Gaillard

  French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister under the Fourth Republic from 1957 to 1958.

• Martin Balsam

  American actor onstage from 1935.

• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
• Honoré Bonnet

  French ski instructor and mountain guide who became a national alpine ski coach.

• Ludovic Kennedy

  Scottish playwright, naval historian, librarian, editor and TV personality.

• Hamish Henderson

  Scottish poet, composer and folk singer.

• Jean Dauger

  French rugby player, an offensive player, famous for his hooks.

• Jean Riboud
• Jorge de Sena

  Portuguese engineer / poet (Reino da Estupidez).

• Chic Murray
• Jacques Ary

  France Actor.

• Anatoly Dobrynin
• Paul Bogart

  American director and producer (d. 2012).

• Elisa Lamotte
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Famous Deaths

• Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse

  Anarchist (free socialist).

• Mohammad Farid

  Egyptian politician (Born 1868).

• Felipe Angeles

  Mexican military officer, noteworthy for his participation in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920.

• Alfred Werner

  German-Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work on the lineage of atoms in molecules and research on complex inorganic...

• Eduard Muller

  member of the Swiss Federal Council (Born 1848).

• Francisco Moreno

  Argentinian explorer and academic (d. 1919).

• Pavel Chistyakov

  Russian painter and educator (d. 1919).

• Hugo Haase

  German lawyer jurist and politician (d. 1919).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. American Quartet - Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me)
2. Shannon Four - Mandy
3. John Steel - Dear Heart
4. Prince's Orchestra - Yearning
5. Nora Bayes - You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't No Love