1919

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 - 1919 - 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924

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Births

• January 31 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player
• February 11 - Gretchen Fraser, slalom skier.
• February 11 - Eddie Robinson, football coach.
• October 11 - Art Blakey, jazz drummer
• Mikhail Kalashnikov - Soviet inventor

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
• The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds
• The islands of Åland vote for a return to Swedish rule in a referendum.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Johannes Stark
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Medicine - Jules Bordet
• Literature - Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
• Peace - Thomas Woodrow Wilson