1919 in the United States

Events from the year 1919 in the United States.

1919
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
See also:

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

July 7–September 6: The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy
  • July 1 "Thirsty First": The Wartime Prohibition Act comes into effect.
  • July 6 The British dirigible airship R34 lands at Mineola, New York, completing the first transatlantic flight by airship.
  • July 7 The First Transcontinental Motor Convoy: The U.S. Army sends an expedition across the continental U.S., starting in Washington, D.C., to determine how well troops could be moved from one side of the country to the other by motor vehicles.
  • July 18 1919 Kimball mining disaster.
  • July 21 Wingfoot Air Express crash: The Goodyear dirigible airship Wingfoot Air Express catches fire over downtown Chicago and crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building; 2 passengers, 1 crew member, and 10 people on the ground are killed; 2 people parachute to the ground safely.[3]
  • July 27 The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 begins when a white man throws rocks at a group of 4 black teens on a raft.

August

September

October

November

  • November 1 The Coal Strike of 1919 begins in the United States by the United Mine Workers under John L. Lewis. Final agreement comes on December 10.
  • November 7 The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities.
  • November 9 Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies, making him the first cartoon character.
  • November 10 The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota (until November 12).
  • November 11 The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results in the deaths of four members of the American Legion, and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
  • November 14 – Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society (La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica), was established at the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California.
  • November 19 The Treaty of Versailles fails a critical ratification vote in the United States Senate. It will never be ratified by the US.
  • November 27 Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity, is established at Oklahoma A&M College (now named Oklahoma State University) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

December

Undated

  • Various strikes occur in the United States: Strike of US railroad workers; The Longshoreman's strike; The Great Steel Strike; and a general strike in Seattle, Washington.
  • US President Wilson promises eventual independence for Philippines, though subsequent Republican administrations see it as a distant goal.
  • The World League Against Alcoholism is established by the Anti-Saloon League.
  • First Security Bank – Montana is founded (as Security Bank and Trust).

Ongoing

Births

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 1 Lewis Hill, broadcaster, co-founder of Pacifica Radio (d. 1957)
  • May 3
    • John Cullen Murphy, comic strip artist (died 2004)
    • Pete Seeger, folk singer and musician (died 2014)
  • May 4 Dory Funk, professional wrestler (died 1973)
  • May 8 Lex Barker, actor (died 1973)
  • May 10 Daniel Bell, sociologist (died 2011)
  • May 16 Liberace, pianist (died 1987)
  • May 17 Ronald Verlin Cassill, novelist, short story writer, editor, painter, and lithographer (died 2002)
  • May 20 George Gobel, comedian (died 1991)
  • May 21 Wense Grabarek, politician (died 2019)
  • May 30 Joe McQueen, jazz saxophonist (died 2019)
  • May 31 Vance Hartke, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1959 to 1977 (died 2003)

June

  • June 6 Doris Merrick, actress and model (died 2019)
  • June 7 George Glamack, basketball player (died 1987)
  • June 9 Jimmy Newberry, baseball player (died 1983)
  • June 11 Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-American pianist and composer (died 2010)
  • June 14 Gene Barry, actor (died 2009)
  • June 15 Charles Kaman, aeronautical engineer (died 2011)
  • June 19 Pauline Kael, film critic (died 2001)
  • June 22 Clifton McNeely, basketball player and coach (died 2003)
  • June 23 R. C. Pitts, basketball player (died 2011)
  • June 24
  • June 26
  • June 28 Joseph P. Lordi, government official (died 1983)
  • June 30 Ed Yost, inventor (died 2007)

July

  • July 1 Gerald E. Miller, vice admiral (died 2014)
  • July 7
    • William Kunstler, lawyer and civil rights activist (died 1995)
    • Earl Mazo, journalist, author, and government official (died 2007)
    • Harry Zeller, professional basketball player (died 2004)
  • July 11 Donald Zilversmit, Dutch-born U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator (died 2010)
  • July 13
  • July 14
    • Cleveland Clark, Negro league baseball player
    • Marion F. Kirby, ace in the United States Army Air Forces (died 2011)
    • Hal Lahar, American football player and coach (died 2003)
    • Eugene Allen, waiter and butler (died 2010)
  • July 15
    • Mike Karmazin, American football guard (died 2004)
    • Everett P. Pope, United States Marine (died 2009)
  • July 17 Milt Smith, American football player and business operator (died 2010)
  • July 19 Dallas McKennon, voice actor (died 2009)
  • July 22 Allie Paine, college basketball standout (died 2008)
  • July 26 Virginia Gilmore, actress (died 1986)
  • July 31 Robert M. Morgenthau, lawyer (died 2019)

August

September

  • September 4 Howard Morris, actor (d. 2005)
  • September 5 Tom Jordan, Major League Baseball player (died 2019)
  • September 6
  • September 9 Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American WWII cartoonist and painter; co-founded Quarry Hill Creative Center in Rochester, Vermont, where she taught art and helped establish the ideals of the group. Born Isabelle Daniel Hall in Tucson, Arizona (Died 2014).
  • September 14 Kay Medford, character actress and comedian (died 1980)
  • September 24
    • Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (died 1977)
    • Jack Costanzo, percussionist (died 2018)
    • Dayton Allen, comedian and voice actor (died 2004)
  • September 27

October

  • October 3 James M. Buchanan, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
  • October 11 Art Blakey, jazz drummer (died 1990)
  • October 12
  • October 13 Jackie Ronne, born Edith Maslin, Antarctic explorer (died 2009)
  • October 14 Edward L. Feightner, U.S. navy officer (d. 2020)
  • October 15 Chuck Stevenson, race car driver (died 1995)
  • October 16 Kathleen Winsor, writer (died 2003)
  • October 17 Charles Y. Glock, sociologist (died 2018)
  • October 18 Anita O'Day, jazz singer (died 2006)
  • October 21 Donald West VanArtsdalen, federal judge (died 2019)
  • October 25 Norman A. Erbe, 35th Governor of Iowa (died 2000)
  • October 26
    • Edward Brooke, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979 (died 2015)
    • James E. Myers, songwriter (died 2001)
    • Jacob Pressman, rabbi, co-founder of American Jewish University (died 2015)
  • October 27 Jeremiah Stamler, cardiologist (died 2018)
  • October 30 Takuma Tanada, Japanese-American biologist (died 2018)

November

  • November 2 Bill Mills, Major League Baseball player (died 2019)
  • November 3
    • Bert Freed, American character actor and voice-over actor (died 1994)
    • Spider Jorgensen, baseball player and coach (died 2003)
  • November 4
  • November 5 Myron Floren, accordionist (The Lawrence Welk Show) (died 2005)
  • November 10 Michael Strank, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (died 1945)
  • November 15
  • November 19
    • Ken Buehler, basketball player (died 2019)
    • Elizabeth Strohfus, aviator (died 2016)
  • November 26 Frederik Pohl, science fiction writer (died 2013)[14]
  • November 30 Johnnie Jones, civil rights attorney (died 2022)[15]
  • November 30 Oliver Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux (died 2013)

December

  • December 1 Charles Steen, geologist and businessman (died 2006)
  • December 2 Norma Miller, African-American dancer, choreographer, actress, author and comedian (died 2019)
  • December 7 Charles McGee, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, served as a USAF officer until 1973 (died 2022)
  • December 8 Lorraine H. Morton, politician (died 2018)
  • December 9
  • December 14 Margie Stewart, model and actress (died 2012)
  • December 15 Max Yasgur, farmer (died 1973)[16]
  • December 21
    • Larry Eisenberg, writer (died 2018)
    • Tommy Byrne, baseball player (died 2007)
    • Doug Young, voice actor (died 2018)
  • December 27 Charles Sweeney, WWII pilot (died 2004)
  • December 31 Recy Taylor, activist (died 2017)

Deaths

See also

References

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  11. "Actress Jayne Meadows dies at 95; spent early years in Providence". The Providence Journal. April 28, 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
  12. Leo Marx, 102, Dies; Studied Clash of Nature and Culture in America
  13. "Joseph Wapner | Biography & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  14. Barnett, David (September 3, 2013). "Frederik Pohl, grandmaster of science fiction, dies aged 93". The Guardian. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
  15. WWII veteran and civil rights lawyer Johnnie Jones dies
  16. U.S. Census, January 1, 1920, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 701, p. 8-A, family 200.
  17. "Nat Goodwin Dies of Apoplexy" (PDF). The New York Times. 1919-02-01.
  18. "Andrew Carnegie". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
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