1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1919 - Events. 1919 - January. January 1 - Iolaire sinking disaster January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 - Spartacist uprising - Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution January 9 - Spartacus revolutionary council folds – Friedrich Ebert orde ...

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David Lloyd George - Changes. May - August 1917 - In temporary absence of Arthur Henderson, George Barnes, Minister of Pensions acts as a member of the War Cabinet. June 1917 - Jan Smuts enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio July 1917 - Sir Edward Carson enters the War Cabinet as a Minister without Portfolio August 1917 - George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson (resigned) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet. January 19 ...

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1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 1919 - Events. January 1 - Iolaire sinking disaster January 1 - Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 - Spartacist uprising - Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution January 9 - Spartacus revolutionary council folds – Friedrich Ebert orders Freikorps into action Jan ...

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1919 in rail transport - November events. November 15 - The "golden spike" is driven and construction of the San Diego and Arizona Railway is completed at a cost of $18 million. 1919 in rail transport - December events. December 1 - The first passenger train of the San Diego & Arizona Railway "arrives" in San Diego from El Centro, Californi ...

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The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and the last member of the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. David Lloyd George - Upbringing. Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government. In his early life he lived in poverty and so moved with his mother to live in L ...

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David Lloyd George - Changes David Lloyd George - Other members of Lloyd George's war government
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His flair quickly showed, and he was elected Liberal MP for Caernarfon in 1890 and he would remain an MP until 1945, fifty-five years later. He gained national fame by his vehement opposition to the Boer War. In 1905, he entered the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade, and on Campbell-Bannerman's death he succeeded the new Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1908 to 1915. In this role, he was largely responsible for the introduction of old age pensions in Brita ...

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Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (December 6, 1919–1974) was a captain in the United States Army Air Force. In 1956, along with Fred Reines, he detected the existence of the neutrino in the neutrino experiment. Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names. He is buried in Arlington Cemetery. ...

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The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman and former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. The first and most known, is the Balfour Declaration, of 1917: An official letter from the British Foreign Office headed by Arthur Balfour, the UK's official Foreign Secretary (from December 1916 to October 1919), to Lord Rothschild, who had once been a member of the British House of Commons(from 1899 to 1910). It has been accepted, especially by Israel, a ...

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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 – April 26, 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. Arnold Sommerfeld was born in Königsberg where he studied mathematics and physical sciences at its university. After receiving his doctorate in 1891 he changed to the University of Göttingen, where he received a professorship in 1896. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1897 and of technical engineering at the University of Aachen in 190 ...

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Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12, 1929) was a business tycoon who made most of his money selling Coca-Cola. He also served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919. Candler Field at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is named after him. Candler was born in Villa Rica, Georgia. He began his business career as a drugstore owner. In 1887 he bought the formula for Coca-Cola from its inventor John Pemberton for $2,300. The success of Coca-Cola was largely due to Candler's aggressive marketing of t ...

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Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was a United States politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts, and Secretary of State 1959-1961. He was born in Paris, France to American parents, and attended school there before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1915 and in the following year was attache to the American Embassy in Berlin. He participated in the 1919 meeting that resulted in the US Counc ...

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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was an Indian physicist. He is considered the Father of the Indian space program. Many Indians consider him to be a national hero. Vikram Sarabhai - Early Years. Vikram Sarabhai was born in Ahmedabad, India to an affluent, business family. He was one of eight children of Ambalal and Sarla Devi. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1940 and a Ph.D in 1947. Including:

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Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine, the Father of Modern Medicine, which is what he himself considered Avicenna to be. William Osler - Biography. He was born in Bond Head, Canada West (now Ontario), raised largely in Dundas, Ontario and studied and taught at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he obtained his medical degree in 1872. It is here that he created the first formalized journal c ...

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Adolph Friedrich Rupp (September 2, 1901 - December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the second winningest men's college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and set a remarkable standard of excellence. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969. Born in Halstead, Kansas, he played college basketball for the University of Kansas under the great coach Dr. Forrest "Phog" Allen from 1919 to 1923. Rupp went on ...

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Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a German Nobel prize-winning chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He also discovered hexol. Alfred Werner - External link. Biography at Nobelprize.org his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new field ...

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Three vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Venture: The first Venture (SP-616) was a steam yacht leased by the Navy from 1917 to 1919. The second Venture (PC-826) was also a yacht, originally built in 1931, acquired at the end of December 1941, used for patrols and convoys along the East Coast, and sold in 1946. The third Venture (MSO-496) was a minesweeper in service from 1956 to 1971. For th ...

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The Völkischer Beobachter ("Völkisch Observer") was the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1920. It first appeared weekly, then daily from February 8, 1923. The "fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany" (Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands) had its origin in the Münchner Beobachter ("Munich Observer"), which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society and in August 1919 was renamed Völkischer Beobachter. The NSDAP purchased it in December 1920 on th ...

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The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a beetle measuring an average length of six millimeters (¼ inch). The insect crossed the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas to enter the United States from Mexico in 1892 and reached southeastern Alabama in 1915. It remains the most destructive cotton pest in North America. By the mid 1920s it had entered all cotton growing regions in the U.S. On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependence on cot ...

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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (December 28, 1882 – November 22, 1944) was arguably the most important astrophysicist from the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity that can be radiated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour. He is famous for his work regarding the Theory of Relativity. Eddington wrote an article in 1919, Report on the relativity theory of gravitation, which announced Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. Beca ...

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