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1919
 
   
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk leads resistance to the Greek invasion of western Turkey      
1919
 
  
Employers' refusal to allow collective bargaining prompts a general strike in Winnipeg, the largest dispute of its kind in Canada's history     
1919
 
     
Léonide Massine, Ottorino Respighi and André Derain collaborate on the ballet La Boutique Fantasque        
1919
 
    
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland       
1919
 
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Mussolini's Fascist party rapidly acquires an aggressive presence, thanks to his gangs of armed thugs in their blackshirt uniforms      
1919
 
    
US boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title, sending him from the ring with a broken jaw       
1919
 
   
At least thirty-eight people are killed in a race riot in Chicago      
1919
 
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Adolf Hitler joins the tiny German Workers' party, the members of which share his own virulent anti-semitism        
1919
 
    
French poets Louis Aragon and André Breton launch Littérature, a surrealist review       
1919
 
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The League of Nations makes South West Africa (Namibia) a mandated British territory, to be administered by South Africa