Netherlands Enacts Eight-Hour Day and Free Sunday Law, July 11, 1919
Date: July 11, 1919
Date: July 11, 1919
Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150. Date: January 15, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1919Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji…
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured. Date: April 13, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 13 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today)…
The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal. Date: October 9, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 9 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1919Makhnovshchina Second Regional Congress at Huliaipole, February 12, 1919Nebraska Ratifies Eighteenth Amendment,…
Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. Date: April 16, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 16 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This…
The Estonian Constituent Assembly is held in Estonia, which marks the birth of the Estonian Parliament, the Riigikogu. Date: April 23, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 23 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1919Polonsky Conspiracy Targets Revolutionary Insurgent Army High…
Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition. Date: December 26, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 26 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…