Editing 1919 (section)

===October===
{{Main|October 1919}}
* [[October 2]] &ndash; President of the United States [[Woodrow Wilson]] suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Alexander Kraig|title=Woodrow Wilson and the Lost World of the Oratorical Statesman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wmn1375z25gC&pg=PA218|year=2004|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-58544-275-1|pages=218}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; The Dutch airline [[KLM]] is founded (as of 2022, it is the world's [[List of airlines by foundation date|oldest airline]] still flying under its original name).<ref>{{cite book| author=John L. Hoh Jr. |title=Pioneers of Profit Among the Clouds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRzuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39|year=2011|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-105-36137-1|pages=39}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; In [[Major League Baseball]], the [[Cincinnati Reds]] win the [[1919 World Series|World Series]], five games to three, over the [[Chicago White Sox]], whose players are later found to have [[Black Sox Scandal|lost intentionally]].
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Estonia]] adopts a radical [[land reform]], nationalizing 97% of agrarian lands, mostly still belonging to the [[Baltic German nobility]].
* [[October 13]] &ndash; The [[Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation]] is signed, in [[Paris, France]].
* [[October 16]] &ndash; In [[Weimar Republic|Germany]], [[Adolf Hitler]] gives his first speech for the [[German Workers' Party]] (DAP). 
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[1919 Luxembourg general election]], the first in the duchy with [[female suffrage]], following constitutional amendments of May 15.
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Prohibition in the United States]]: The [[United States Congress]] passes the [[Volstead Act]], over President [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s veto. Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, [[1920]], under the provisions of the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].
*[[October 29]]–[[November 29]] &ndash; First Annual Meeting of the [[International Labour Conference]].<ref>League of Nations, [https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09616/09616(1919-1).pdf International Labour Conference: First Annual Meeting], ''ILO'', accessed 15 December 2023</ref>