Events on November 11 in history

West Russian Volunteer Army (November 11, 1919)

Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

The West Russian Volunteer Army (Russian: Русская Западная добровольческая армия, romanized: Russkaya Zapadnaya dobrovol'cheskaya armiya) or Bermontians (Latvian: Bermontieši, Lithuanian: Bermontininkai) was an army in the Baltic provinces of the former Russian Empire during the Russian Civil War in 1918–20.

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Events on 1919

5 Jan

Nazi Party
The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
23 Mar

Italian Fascism
In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
4 May

Treaty of Versailles
May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
19 May

Turkish War of Independence
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
29 May

General relativity
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

Events on November 11 in history

West Russian Volunteer Army (November 11, 1919)

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Events on 1919

Nazi Party

Italian Fascism

Treaty of Versailles

Turkish War of Independence

General relativity