February 1919

Saturday 01:

The first Miss America is crowned (New York City).

Wednesday 05:

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

Tuesday 11:

Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.

Sunday 23:

Benito Mussolini forms the Fascist Party in Italy.

Tuesday 25:

Oregon places a 1 cent per US gallon (26 ¢/L)tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

Wednesday 26:

An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).