Timeline October 1919

Events in October 1919 5

• 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal Players conspire to fix the World Series Eight Chicago White Sox players were later found to have conspired with gamblers to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The scandal, exposed the following year, led to lifetime bans for the players involved and lasting reforms in professional baseball.
• 1919 – 1990 Art Blakey (1919-1990) Died 16 October 1990, aged 71 Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader who led the Jazz Messengers for over three decades. His group served as a training ground for generations of jazz musicians. He died in New York City on 16 October 1990.
• 1919 – 2000 Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) Died 28 September 2000, aged 80 Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, a charismatic figure who inspired "Trudeaumania". He patriated the constitution with its Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, championed official bilingualism, and invoked emergency powers in the 1970 October Crisis. His death brought national mourning.
• 1919 – 2013 Doris Lessing (1919-2013) Died 17 November 2013, aged 94 Doris Lessing was a British novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for works including The Golden Notebook. She died at her home in London.
• 1919 Volstead Act passed over presidential veto Congress sets rules for enforcing Prohibition Congress overrode President Wilson's veto to pass the National Prohibition Act, known as the Volstead Act, which defined enforcement mechanisms for the Eighteenth Amendment. It set the legal framework that governed Prohibition until its repeal in 1933.