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===June=== {{main|June 1919}} [[File:Council of Four Versailles.jpg|thumb|"The Big Four" during the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] (from left to right, [[David Lloyd George]], [[Vittorio Orlando]], [[Georges Clemenceau]], [[Woodrow Wilson]]).]] * [[June]] – [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, along with his father John W. Bascom at [[Lethbridge]], [[Alberta]], Canada, designs and makes rodeo's first reverse-opening side-delivery bucking chute, which becomes the world standard. * [[June 2]] – [[1919 United States anarchist bombings]]: Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures. * [[June 4]] – [[Women's rights]]: The [[United States Congress]] approves the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which would guarantee [[suffrage]] to women, and sends it to the states for ratification. * [[June 5]] – [[Estonian War of Independence|Estonian]] and [[Latvian War of Independence|Latvian Wars of Independence]]: The advancing pro-German ''[[Baltische Landeswehr]]'' initiates war against [[Estonia]] in Northern [[Latvia]]. * [[June 6]] – The Hungarian Red Army attacks the [[Republic of Prekmurje]]. * [[June 7]] ** ''[[Sette Giugno]]'' on Malta: British troops fire on a mob protesting against the colonial government, killing four. **[[Russian Civil War]]: [[Counteroffensive of Eastern Front]]: The Red army captures the city of [[Birsk]] from the [[White Movement|White forces]]. * [[June 9]] – [[Russian Civil War]]: [[Counteroffensive of Eastern Front]]: The Red army recaptures the city of [[Ufa]] * [[June 14]]–[[June 15|15]] – A [[Vickers Vimy]] piloted by British aviator [[John Alcock (RAF officer)|John Alcock]], with navigator [[Arthur Whitten Brown]], makes the first [[Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown|nonstop transatlantic flight]], from [[St. John's, Newfoundland]], to [[Clifden]], [[Connemara]], Ireland. * [[June 15]] – [[Pancho Villa]] attacks [[Ciudad Juárez]], Mexico. When the bullets begin to fly to the American side of the border, two units of the United States [[7th Cavalry Regiment]] cross the border, to push Villa's forces from American territory. * [[June 17]] – [[Epsom Riot]] by Canadian troops: English Police Sergeant Thomas Green is killed. * [[June 18]] – The second most popular<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lda.cr/club?s=historia|title=History|website=Alajuelense Sports League}}</ref> [[Association football|football]] club in Costa Rica, [[Liga Deportiva Alajuelense]], is founded. * [[June 20]]–[[June 25|25]] – [[Russian Civil War]], Southern Front: The White [[Volunteer Army]] defeats the exhausted Red forces in the [[Kharkiv Operation (June 1919)|Kharkiv Operation]], capturing the industrial city of [[Kharkiv]]. * [[June 21]] ** [[Winnipeg General Strike|Bloody Saturday]] of the [[Winnipeg general strike]]: [[Royal North-West Mounted Police]] fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two. ** [[Scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow]]: Admiral [[Ludwig von Reuter]] scuttles the German fleet interned at [[Scapa Flow]], Scotland; nine German sailors are killed. * [[June 23]] – [[Estonian War of Independence|Estonian]] and [[Latvian War of Independence|Latvian Wars of Independence]] – [[Battle of Cēsis (1919)|Battle of Cēsis]]: The [[Estonian army]] defeats the pro-German ''[[Baltische Landeswehr]]'' in northern [[Latvia]], forcing it to retreat towards [[Riga]]; the event is celebrated subsequently as [[Victory Day]] in Estonia. * [[June 26]] – [[British Foreign Office]] official [[St John Philby]] and [[T. E. Lawrence]] arrive in [[Cairo]] for discussions about Arab unrest in [[Egypt]], having been flown by Canadian pilot [[Harry Yates (pilot)|Harry Yates]] in a [[Handley Page]] [[bomber]] which set off from England on [[June 21]]. * [[June 28]] ** The [[Treaty of Versailles]] is signed, formally ending [[World War I]], five years to the day since the [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]].<ref name=MacMillan/> [[John Maynard Keynes]], who has been present at the conference and is unhappy with the terms of the treaty, brings out his own analysis later in the year, entitled ''[[The Economic Consequences of the Peace]]''. ** The [[International Labour Organization]] (ILO) is established as an agency of the [[League of Nations]].
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