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Top Song(s)
• Marion Harris - After You've Gone
• Ben Selvin - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
• Al Jolson - I'll Say She Does
• John Steel - A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
• Bert Williams - Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
Top Film(s)
• Broken Blossoms
• The Doll
• The Oyster Princess
• Blind Husbands
• True Heart Susie
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Young Visiters - Daisy Ashford
• The Magic of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• My Man Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
• The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
• Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
Famous Deaths
• January 4 – Georg von Hertling, 7th Chancellor of Germany.
• February 17 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada.
• April 4 - Francisco Marto, Portuguese witness of Marian apparitions, canonized.
• May 25 – Madam C. J. Walker, African-American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• July 2 – Friedrich Soennecken, German entrepreneur, inventor of hole punch and ring binder.
• July 18 – Raymonde de Laroche, French aviator, first woman to receive an aviator's license.
• August 2 – Tullo Morgagni, Italian journalist, sports race organizer, and aviation enthusiast.
• August 11 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born businessman and philanthropist.
• September 20 – Ramón Barros Luco, 15th President of Chile.
• December 18 – Sir John Alcock, English aviator; pilot 1st nonstop transatlantic flight in airplane.
Medical/Science/Technology
• The International Astronomical Union is established in Paris.
• The term covalence in relation to chemical bonding is first used by Irving Langmuir.
• F. W. Aston discovers multiple stable isotopes for neon.
• Dr George Newman is appointed as the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England and Wales.
• Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation during the total solar eclipse.
• Betz's law is published by German physicist Albert Betz, indicating the maximum power that can be extracted from the wind.
• A Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• United States firearms designer John Browning finalizes the design of the M1919 Browning machine gun.
• A United States patent for the self-folding shirt collar is obtained by the Phillips-Jones Corporation.
• United States firearms designer John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun.
Political Events
• January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States, dies in his sleep at the age of 60.
• January 16 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition.
• January 20 – Thomas Kilby is sworn in as the 36th governor of Alabama replacing Charles Henderson.
• January 22 – The United States recognizes the independence of Poland.
• February 25 – Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
• February 26 – An act of the United States Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park
• March 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the conviction of Charles Schenck.
• March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes Attorney General of the United States through recess appointment.
• October 2 – President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• December 21 – The United States deports 249 people, including Emma Goldman, to Russia during the Red Scare.
National Events
• January 1 – Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company.
• January 25 – The Hotel Pennsylvania opens in Manhattan.
• April 15 – Boston Telephone Strike of 1919 begins.
• May 1 – Riots break out on International Labor Day in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 9 – The United States recognizes the independence of Finland.
• June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment.
• June 5 – Baltimore Mine Tunnel Disaster.
• 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.
• September 22 – The Steel strike of 1919 begins across the United States.
• October 9 – Black Sox Scandal: The Chicago White Sox throw the World Series.
Worldwide Events
• January 1 - HMY Iolaire sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home, are killed.
• January 13 – Workers' councils in Berlin end the general strike; the Spartacist uprising is over.
• January 25 – The League of Nations is founded in Paris, France.
• March 1 – The March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea is formed.
• March 15 – The American Legion forms in Paris.
• April 5 – 35 Jews are killed by the Polish Army without trial after being accused of Bolshevism.
• May 2 – Weimar Republic troops and the Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• July 2 – The Syrian National Congress in Damascus: Arab nationalists announce independence.
• July 11 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
• October 13 – The Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation is signed, in Paris, France