Red Summer – A race riot broke out in Baltimore when soldiers from Fort Meade started harassing and then attacking blacks in their neighborhoods. Local police intervened and after considerable fights were able to arrest six soldiers.[1]
The World Series began with the Chicago White Sox competing against the Cincinnati Reds. Rumors were already circulating that the game was fixed, with the odds against the Reds falling rapidly. Over the next four games, eight White Sox players were alleged to have made intentional errors during the games to fall behind the Reds in the series.[2]
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the age of 62, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.[12] However, his inner circle, led by the First Lady Edith Wilson and chief physician Cary T. Grayson, kept the general public in the dark about Wilson's health until February. Even then, Wilson's presidency continued for another year with Edith Wilson acting as a shadow steward of the executive branch.[13]
A U.S. Marine unit attempted to capture Haitian rebel leader Charlemagne Péralte who organized the attack on Port-au-Prince at this camp. Around 30 rebels were killed but Péralte managed to escape. He was eventually caught and killed on November 1.[34]
The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox. However, rumors persisted and later confirmed that eight White Sox members intentionally threw games in exchange for gambling proceeds.[39][40]
Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China) after it had been shut down six years earlier by President Yuan Shikai.[42]
A mutiny broke out among the Royal Navyfleet at Port Edgar, Scotland that had been set to be deployed to the Baltic and assist the White Russian forces in the Russian Civil War. Some 150 sailors left their posts and prevented the fleet from leaving port. Some 50 sailors then marched to the main government office at Whitehall in London with a list of demands on improving conditions among the fleet. 96 sailors and officers were arrested when the mutiny ended.[50]
The White RussianVolunteer Army began the last of its pogroms against Jewish communities around Kiev with the village Ivankiv, Ukraine. Over three days, insurgents murdered 14 people, wounded another nine, and sexually assaulted 15 women and girls.[67]
Frank Conrad began broadcasting an experimental radio broadcast with the call sign 8XK at 7750 Penn Avenue, in Pittsburgh. A year later, Conrad was able to form a public radio station called KDKA.[75]
The football club Leeds United was established but could not start playing in the league until the 1920–21 season as Port Vale had taken over the defunct Leeds City place in the English Football League.[76]
The School of Automotive Trades was established in Flint, Michigan to train students seeking careers in the auto industry. It was later acquired by General Motors in 1926. After the institute split from GM on 1982, it was renamed Kettering University (after auto inventor Charles F. Kettering) in 1998.[90]
The first attempt to make a flight from England and Australia through a competition for a £A10,000 prize by the Australian government was made by pilot Captain George Campbell Matthews of the Australian Flying Corps with Sergeant Thomas D. Kay as his mechanic in a Sopwith Wallaby. Bad luck plagued the inaugural trip with bad weather delaying flights from Cologne and Vienna, and both men being detained as suspected Bolsheviks in Belgrade. Engine problems at Constantinople (now Istanbul) and more bad weather at Aleppo caused further delays. The flight competition was abandoned in April 1920 when the plane crashed in Bali where Matthews was slightly injured.[92]
United States Congress passed an act that allowed permits to be granted for private companies and individuals surveying for underground water in Nevada.[97]
Axeman of New Orleans – Mike Pepitone was the final victim of the New Orleans ax attacks that started in 1918. His wife found his body in his bedroom just as a large, ax-welding man was fleeing the scene. Unfortunately, his wife was unable to provide a clear description of the killer. No further break-ins and attacks with an ax were reported after that night. The attacks and murders remain unsolved.[116]
A week long memorial for the late U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt culminated on what would have been his 61st birthday. The activities lead to establishing the Theodore Roosevelt Association the following year.[117]
The 1919 peace treaty with Germany received royal assent, confirming Australia's membership as a sovereign nation in the new League of Nations, and indicating Australia's independence from the United Kingdom.[119]
The first radio program was broadcast from the telegraph station at the Petřín lookout tower in Prague on the first anniversary of the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia.[124]
British journalist Arthur Ransome left Russia with his future wife Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina (previously Leon Trotsky's secretary) while carrying a diplomatic message for Estonia.[125]
Red Summer – A race riot broke out in Corbin, Kentucky, when a vigilante mob rounded up 200 blacks and loaded them onto train cars out of town, following a mugging of a white man who identified the assailants as black men.[137]
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