Events of 1919
January 3: Death of President Roosevelt
January 15: A wave of molasses flows through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150
January 16: The 18th Amendment goes into effect, banning alcohol in the United States
January 18: The Versailles peace conference begins
Feb: Seattle General Strike
February 23: Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party
Feb: Chicago Race Riots
March 2: The first Communist International commences in Moscow
May 1: Socialist/Communist riots begin in Cleveland, Ohio leading to 2 deaths, 40 injuries, and 116 arrests.
May 22: Solar eclipse helps prove Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Anarchist bombing of Attorney General Palmer’s house
June 4: The US Congress approves the 19th Amendment, which grants suffrage to women. It is then sent to the states for ratification.
June 28: The Treaty of Versailles is signed officially ending World War I.
Americans sent to Siberia to fight Bolsheviks
Boston Police Strike
September 10: A hurricane hits the Florida Keys comes ashore, eventually killing 600 people.
September 22: Steel Strike
September 28: A lynch mob attacks the police station in Omaha, Nebraska and hangs alleged rapist Will Brown.
President Wilson suffers a stroke in Pueblo, Co., Oct. 2
“Black Sox” Scandal Transylvania shown in yellow
October 28: Prohibition begins, despite President Wilson’s veto
Soviet Ark- The Buford
Molly Steimer and three others deported for opposing war.
Lodge Reservations doom Treaty of Versailles in U.S. Senate
Spanish Flu finally officially ends