Historical Events in August 1919

Aug 4 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor Auguste Rodin

Aug 4 Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun flees to Vienna after the Hungarian Soviet Republic is overthrown by the Romanian Army
Aug 6 1st air flight over a major body of water in Australia (Harry Butler)
Aug 6 Romanian forces bring down Hungarian Soviet Republic in Budapest
Aug 8 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan's independence
Aug 10 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine

Aug 11 Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponsor Indian Packing Company

Aug 11 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
Aug 13 Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga)
Aug 14 White Sox Happy Felsch ties record of 4 outfield assists in a game
Aug 14 Yankee Muddy Ruel hits into a triple-play
Aug 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois
Aug 19 Afghanistan declares independence from UK
Aug 20 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
Aug 23 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
Aug 24 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
Aug 25 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
Aug 28 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
Aug 30 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin
Aug 31 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
Aug 31 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
Aug 31 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev