1919

Births

 * Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger was born Monterey, OH.

Events

 * August 19 - following the third Anglo-Afghan war, Afghanistan regains full independence from the United Kingdom over its foreign affairs.
 * Sheikh Sultan bin Salim Al Qasimi takes over as ruler of the Trucial State of Abysmia after the death of the former governor Sheikh Salim bin Sultan Al Qasimi. Sheikh Sultan begins the process of making Trucial Abysmia more independent of the other Trucial States, declaring himself absolute king.  He rules until he is overthrown in a bloodless coup d'etat by his nephew and son-in-law Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, grandfather of the current king of Trucial Abysmia.

Transcarpathia
It was only in early January 1919 that the first calls were heard in Rus for union with Czechoslovakia.
 * In 1918 and 1919, Transcarpathia was briefly part of the independent West Ukraine Republic. Transcarpathia, as well as a broader region, was occupied by Romania from April 1919 until July or August 1919, and then was reoccupied by Hungary.

In May 1919, a Central National Council convened under Zatkovich and voted unanimously to accept the Czechoslovak solution. Back in Rus, on May 8, 1919, a general meeting of representatives from all the previous councils was held, and declared that "The Central Russian National Council... completely endorse the decision of the American Uhro-Rusin Council to unite with the Czech-Slovak nation on the basis of full national autonomy."

The Treaty of St. Germain (September 10, 1919) granted the Carpathian Rusyns that autonomy, which was later upheld to some extent by the Czechoslovak constitution.