Events in History in 1919 (Part 2)

Oct 26 US President Woodrow Wilson's veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden

Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto

Nov 1 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord

Nov 7 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
Nov 10 1st observance of National Book Week
Nov 10 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
Nov 11 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political and business views
Nov 12 Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
Nov 14 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
Nov 15 US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty [1]
Nov 16 Admiral Miklós Horthy, head of the Hungarian National Army, seizes Budapest and will later become regent of the restored Kingdom of Hungary
Nov 19 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary
Nov 20 1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Arizona
Nov 22 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam

Nov 28 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons

Dec 10 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties

Dec 21 J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia