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1919
The 20th Century Almanac · The 1910s

1919

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The Treaty of Versailles imposed harsh terms on Germany and created the League of Nations. The Eighteenth Amendment ushered in Prohibition, Gandhi launched mass civil disobedience in India after the Amritsar Massacre, and a wave of strikes and Red Scare gripped America.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
Spitteler
World Series
Cincinnati Reds vs. Chicago White Sox Se
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1919

Champions

US OpenGolf: Walter Hagen Score: 301 Course: Brae Burn CC Location: West Newton, MA
World SeriesCincinnati Reds vs. Chicago White Sox Series: 5-3

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize money for 1919 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
Literature
SPITTELER, CARL FRIEDRICH GEORG, Switzerland, b. 1845, d. 1924: "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring"
Peace
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America. Founder of the SociŽtŽ des Nations (League of Nations)
Physiology or Medicine
BORDET, JULES, Belgium, Brussels University, b. 1870, d. 1961: "for his discoveries relating to immunity"
Physics
STARK, JOHANNES, Germany, Greifswald University, b. 1874, d. 1957: "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields"

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction
Booth Tarkington... "The Magnificient Ambersons"
Public Service
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