January 1 Belorussian SSR established January 2 Anti-British uprising in Ireland January 2 Lithuania gains independence January 5 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party January 5 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege January 11 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed January 11 Romania annexes Transylvania January 13 Dutch Soccer team OSV forms January 14 John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge McQuade buy New York Giants January 15 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 January 15 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres January 15 Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland January 15 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires January 15 W Collison and O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in New York City January 16 Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th January 18 WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France January 19 "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston January 21 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland January 25 Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later January 29 Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment, prohibition January 30 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army February 1 Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert February 2 Monarchist riot in Portugal February 3 Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in New York City February 3 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris) February 3 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) February 4 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown February 5 NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers February 6 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike February 11 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany February 14 United Parcel Service forms February 15 American Legion organizes in Paris February 18 Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals February 19 Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris) February 20 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt February 21 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria February 21 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona February 25 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty February 25 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) February 26 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine February 26 Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona February 27 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" February 27 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (New York City) March 1 Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin March 2 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin March 3 1st international air mail service from U.S., Seattle-Victoria, British Columbia March 3 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike March 5 Louis Hirsch and Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in New York City March 6 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie March 11 General strike in Germany, crushed March 12 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany) March 12 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in New York City March 15 American Legion forms (Paris) March 16 Frank Wedekind's "Elius Erweckung," premieres in Hamburg March 17 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages March 18 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City March 23 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted March 23 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy March 23 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms March 29 Stanley Cup: Mont (NHL) and Seat (PCHA) win 2 games each with 1 tie, 1919 Stanley Cup not awarded due to flu epidemic March 30 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf March 30 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act March 30 Paul Claudel's "Tate d'Or," premieres in Paris March 31 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann April 3 Austria expels all Habsburgers April 5 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann April 5 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana April 5 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews April 7 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks April 12 British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages April 13 Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India April 13 British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre) April 19 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4 April 19 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day April 19 Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall April 19 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London) April 20 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army April 23 Major leagues open a reduced 140-game season April 28 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) April 30 Phillies beat Brooklyn Dodgers 9-0 in 20 innings May 1 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages May 2 1st U.S. air passenger service starts May 3 Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain May 3 America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) May 4 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3) May 4 FVC soccer team forms May 4 Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3 May 6 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German SW Africa to South Africa May 8 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane May 8 Appingedam soccer team forms May 10 45th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:09.8 May 10 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina, 2 blacks killed May 11 Yankees' Jack Quinn and Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie May 12 Yankees and Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 May 14 45th Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53 May 14 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta May 15 Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0 May 20 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550 May 25 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap May 27 1st transatlantic flight ends; U.S. Navy flying boat takes 11 days May 27 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster May 28 Armenia declares it's Independence May 29 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster May 29 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington May 31 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas) May 31 NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic June 1 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden June 2 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers June 3 Liberty Life Insurance Co (Chicago) organized by blacks June 4 Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill June 4 U.S. Marines invade Costa Rica June 6 Assent is given to an Act to amend the Canadian Currency Act, 1910 June 6 Finland declares war on bolsheviks June 9 General steel strike in France June 11 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass June 11 51st Belmont: J Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 2:17.6 and Trip Crown June 12 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education June 14 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock and Brown) June 15 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland June 17 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres June 20 German government of Scheideman resigns June 20 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria June 21 Bauer forms German government June 21 German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet June 23 Nitti government forms in Italy June 25 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) June 25 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg June 26 N.Y. Daily News begins publishing June 28 Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against New York Yankees June 28 Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence June 28 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed in France July 1 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents July 1 Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen July 4 ADGB (Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund) party forms July 4 Cincinnati Reds are 10 games back in NL, and win World Series July 4 Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship July 5 32nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Lenglen beats Chambers (10-8 46 97) July 5 Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 home runs in a game for his 1st of 72 times July 6 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours) July 6 William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president July 7 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game July 8 President Wilson returns to New York City from Versailles Peace Conference July 10 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage July 10 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate July 11 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day/No Sunday work July 13 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties Texas July 17 Finland adopts constitution July 17 Yankees 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play July 21 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam July 21 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) July 22 De Falla and Massine's "Three-cornered Hat," premieres in London July 24 Race Riot in Washington D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded) July 27 Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured July 28 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam July 31 Germany accepts Weimar Constitution August 1 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam August 1 Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek August 6 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler) August 6 Romanian forces destroys Bela Kun Republic in Budapest August 8 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence August 10 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine August 11 Weimar Republic begins in Germany August 13 British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350 August 13 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) August 14 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game August 14 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play August 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois August 19 Afghanistan declares independence from U.K. August 20 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg) August 23 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune August 24 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning August 25 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) August 28 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa August 30 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin August 31 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago August 31 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group August 31 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev September 1 Frank Wedekind's "Herakles," premieres in Munich September 2 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago September 2 Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation September 2 National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series September 4 39th U.S. Mens Tennis: William M Johnston beats Wm T Tilden (64 64 63) September 4 British intervene in Petrograd September 8 Babe Ruth hits his 26th home run off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 home run mark of 25 September 9 Boston's police force forms strike September 10 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0 September 10 New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers September 10 Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany September 11 U.S. Marines invade Honduras September 13 Guy Bolton and George Middleton's "Adam and Eve," premieres in New York City September 14 British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dail September 16 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress September 16 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant September 18 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts female suffrage September 18 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast September 20 2nd PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Engineers CC Roslyn NY September 20 Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs September 20 Booth Tarkington's "Clarence," premieres in New York City September 21 33rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Zinderstein (61 62) September 24 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey September 25 President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke September 26 U.S. President Wilson hit by a heart attack September 27 Babe Ruth's 29th home run is 1st of year in Washington (1st in every park in league in one season) September 27 British troops withdraw from Archangelsk September 27 Democratic National Committee voted to allow female members September 27 Pitcher Bob Shawkey sets then Yank record with 15 strike-outs September 28 Fastest major league game (51 minutes), Giants beat Phillies 6-1 September 30 Avery Hopwood's "Gold Diggers," premieres in New York City October 1 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal) October 2 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Netherlands October 2 President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed October 3 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series October 3 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day October 5 Norwegian population agrees to prohibition October 6 Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria October 6 White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series October 7 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport and KLM) October 7 Fritz Kreisler and F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in New York City October 7 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) October 10 Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hofmannsthals premieres in Vienna October 11 1st transcontinental air race ends October 13 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas October 15 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money October 17 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created October 19 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman October 19 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series October 23 Romberg and Atteridge's musical "Passing Show," premieres in New York City October 26 B. C. Hilliams musical "Buddies," premieres in New York City October 26 Elgars "Cello concerto op 85" premieres in Queen's Hall London October 26 President Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden October 27 U.S. Congress sign Volstead Act October 28 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto October 30 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball November 5 Ir Steringa Idzerda begins hosting "soiree-musical" on Dutch radio November 6 1st Dutch radio program: Soiree Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel" November 7 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers November 10 1st observance of National Book Week November 10 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis) November 11 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views November 12 Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia November 14 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia November 15 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty) November 16 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic November 18 H Tierney and J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in New York City November 19 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations November 20 1st municipally owned airport in U.S. opens (Tucson Az) November 22 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam November 22 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week November 27 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies and Bulgaria November 28 US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament December 1 AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By," premieres in Manchester December 1 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament December 10 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers December 10 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson December 10 NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties December 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala December 13 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London December 15 Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in New York City December 15 Fiume (Rijeka) declares its Independence December 17 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day December 19 American Meteorological Society found December 20 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) December 20 U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration December 21 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia December 22 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) December 22 U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman December 23 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched December 23 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace December 26 Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth December 27 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
