1. Events of 1919

2. January 3: Death of President Roosevelt

3. January 15: A wave of molasses flows through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150

4. January 16: The 18th Amendment goes into effect, banning alcohol in the United States

5. January 18: The Versailles peace conference begins

6. Feb: Seattle General Strike

7. February 23: Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party

8. Feb: Chicago Race Riots

9. March 2: The first Communist International commences in Moscow

10. May 1: Socialist/Communist riots begin in Cleveland, Ohio leading to 2 deaths, 40 injuries, and 116 arrests.

11. May 22: Solar eclipse helps prove Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

12. Anarchist bombing of Attorney General Palmer’s house

13. June 4: The US Congress approves the 19th Amendment, which grants suffrage to women. It is then sent to the states for ratification.

14. June 28: The Treaty of Versailles is signed officially ending World War I.

15. Americans sent to Siberia to fight Bolsheviks

16. Boston Police Strike

17. September 10: A hurricane hits the Florida Keys comes ashore, eventually killing 600 people.

18. September 22: Steel Strike

19. September 28: A lynch mob attacks the police station in Omaha, Nebraska and hangs alleged rapist Will Brown.

20. President Wilson suffers a stroke in Pueblo, Co., Oct. 2

21. “Black Sox” Scandal Transylvania shown in yellow

22. October 28: Prohibition begins, despite President Wilson’s veto

23. Soviet Ark- The Buford

24. Molly Steimer and three others deported for opposing war.

25. Lodge Reservations doom Treaty of Versailles in U.S. Senate

26. Spanish Flu finally officially ends