To appease protests across Hungary over the government crackdown on communists, the political offices of the Socialist Party of Hungary were allowed to reopen, its imprisoned leaders could receive visitors, and its official newspaper Vörös Újság (Red News) could resume publication.[3]
About 55% of voters in Liechtenstein rejected lowering the voting age from 24 to 21 and increasing the number of seats in the Landtag during a referendum.[16]
The Russian government established the Institute of Economics and Finance, now known as the Financial University in Moscow.[17]
The Supreme Court of the United Statesupheld the conviction of Charles Schenck, a member of the American Socialist Party, for violation of the Espionage Act when he oversaw the distribution of 15,000 fliers to men of voting age that encouraged them to refuse the draft for World War I. The phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" became popular in reference to a passage in the court's decision that stated reasons why Schenk's actions were not protected under the First Amendment, particularly during wartime: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."[24]
Died:Ernest von Koerber, Austrian state leader, 18th and 25th Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1850); Frances Anne Hopkins, British painter, best known for her historic paintings of the fur trade in Canada including Shooting the Rapids, Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall and Voyageurs at Dawn (b. 1838)
The Reichswehr was established as Germany's new armed forces, with President Friedrich Ebert as commander-in-chief. The force had two branches, with the Reichswehr to be composed of 100,000 soldiers for land defense and the Reichsmarine of 15,000 sailors for all sea defense.[39]
Women voted for the first time in Michigan following the passing of a state law in November 1918. The first Michigan woman to exercise the vote was Rosa John, the wife of a prominent Syrian merchant.[40][41]
Egyptian Revolution – British authorities arrested Egyptian politician Saad Zaghloul, leader of the popular nationalistic Wafd Party, for promoting grassroots civil disobedience in Egypt and exiled him and other party leaders to Malta.[46]
Italy passed a new law which eliminated husbands' superiority in family law. This gave women the right to control their own property, have equal guardianship of their children, stand for public office and enter professions.[50]
Axeman of New Orleans – After months of inactivity, a new string of home break-ins and attacks on inhabitants with an ax commenced in New Orleans, starting with Italian immigrant Charles Cortimiglia and his wife while they were sleeping with their two-year-old daughter. The couple survived the attack despite being badly injured, but their daughter was killed.[57]
Axeman of New Orleans – Three days after the attack on Charles Cortimiglia and his family, a letter was distributed to newspapers through New Orleans purportedly by the person responsible for the home invasions starting in 1918. The letter opened with: "They have never caught me and they never will ... I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman." After several more boasts, the letter concluded that if jazz music was played in homes after midnight on the following Tuesday, he would spare the inhabitants.[67]
Italian bank Cassa Rurale di Depositi e Prestiti di Pompiano was founded in Pompiano, Italy. It merged with other banks over the next century to become the Banca del Territorio Lombardo cooperative.[68]
Egyptian Revolution – Widespread disturbances erupted throughout Egypt over the arrest of the leaders of the Wafd Party, with reports of villages being burned down, large land properties plundered and major rail stations destroyed over the next 15 days.[71]
About 2,000 members of the American Expeditionary Forces convened in Paris for the first American Legion caucus to form "one permanent nation-wide organization...composed of all parties, all creeds, and all ranks who wish to perpetuate the relationships formed while in military service."[72]
The military arm of Cheka, the secret police organization for Soviet Russia, was reorganized into the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic. The group policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system and put down rebellions wherever they occurred. By 1921, the organization had 200,000 men.[76]
The Soviet authorities conducted a census of Kyiv with the goal of finding out the status of various demographic indicators of the city.[77]
Axeman of New Orleans – Motivated by press coverage of a mysterious letter sent to newspapers from the purported ax murderer promising those who were not playing jazz music on March 19 "will get the axe", dance halls in New Orleans were filled to capacity and hundreds of professional and amateur jazz musicians were hired to play at private parties in residential homes as a way to protect from attacks. No murders occurred that night.[97][98]
The Russian Soviet Government Bureau was established in New York City as a trade and information agency between Soviet Russia and the United States since the two countries did not have formal diplomatic relations. However, the agency roused anti-communist suspicions and was raided within months of the operations before closing in 1921.[100]
The administration under Dénes Berinkey resigned as the government of Hungary, after refusing to comply with a request from France to pull Hungarian troops out of Transylvania for Romanian occupation.[106]
During what was supposed to be an official transition of the executive in Hungary, president Mihály Károlyi unknowingly allowed Hungarian soviets led by Béla Kun to seize power. The Social Democratic Party of Hungary that Károlyi favored in fact had secretly negotiated to merge with the Socialist Party of Hungary that was backed by Russian soviets. Faced with a coup d'état, Károlyi resigned as president and was replaced by a government under Sándor Garbai.[111] However, as Foreign Affairs commissar, Kun held the real power behind the scene as he had direct support from Vladimir Lenin in Moscow.[112]
Universal suffrage was extended to women in Hungary, provided they were trade union members. It was overturned when the soviet republic dissolved in August and would not be reinstated until 1945.[116]
The Committee of 48 released through four liberal publications a call for new organization on creating a new political party committed to social reform.[125]
The Hungarian Soviet Republic began a campaign of purging members of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary from government through arrests and imprisonment, including former Hungarian president Mihály Károlyi (who would not escape to Paris until July). The soviet republic was unpopular among most of the population, particularly the peasantry. To maintain control, an enforcement group nicknamed the Lenin Boys was created, and was linked to nearly 600 murders over the next few months.[138][139]
Red Flag riots – A crowd of 8,000 ex-servicemen clashed with police in Brisbane. Police officers used bayonets to drive back the mob, injuring 100 servicemen.[140]
A contingent of Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) personnel arrived in France for overseas service, the first time that WRAF personnel served outside the United Kingdom. Later in the year, another WRAF contingent would be sent to Germany.[145]
The musical revue Joy Bells premiered at the Hippodrome in London with a line-up that included vaudevillian star George Robey, and ran for a successful 723 performances.[150]
Egyptian Revolution – British forces suppressed the most violent part of the revolution in Egypt, with reports of some 800 Egyptians killed and another 1,600 wounded, along with 31 European civilians killed. However, student and intellectual demonstrations for Egyptian independence continued in the cities while violent attacks against British military personnel in the rural areas went on for another four months.[169]
The Belgian airline Syndicat national d'Etude des Transports Aériens or SNETA was formed near Brussels and established commercial flights to London, Amsterdam, and Paris. It would merge with airline Sabena in 1923.[174]
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