1919

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This article is a date listing important events for the year 1919.

Events

• Beginning of The City Beautiful Movement.
• May 21 – During the first session of the 66th Congress (1919–1921), members of the U. S. House passed (for the second time) the women’s suffrage amendment.
• June 4 – The U.S. Congress passes the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by the states a year later. The amendment guarantees women the right to vote. It took over 60 years for the remaining 12 states to ratify the 19th Amendment. Virginia delayed its ratification until 1952. (Mississippi was the last to do so, on March 22, 1984).
• October 28 – The U. S. House passed the Volstead Act enforcing Prohibition.

Deaths

• November 12 - Thomas S. Martin at his home Faulkner House. An American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Scottsville, Martin founded a political organization that held power in Virginia for decades (later becoming known as the Byrd Organization). Martine held office from March 4, 1895 until his death.