WHAT HAPPENED IN 1919.
Look what happened the 1919.

At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. (3. January 1919)

The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded. (5. January 1919)

Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. (7. January 1919)

Romania reincorporates Transylvania. (11. January 1919)

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. (15. January 1919)

Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. (15. January 1919)

Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. (16. January 1919)

World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France. (18. January 1919)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland. (18. January 1919)

Bentley Motors Limited is founded. (18. January 1919)

Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. (21. January 1919)

Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. (22. January 1919)

The League of Nations is founded. (25. January 1919)

The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. (31. January 1919)

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. (5. February 1919)

The five-day Seattle General Strike begins. (6. February 1919)

Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany. (11. February 1919)

The Polish–Soviet War begins. (14. February 1919)

German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. (21. February 1919)

Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. (25. February 1919)