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• First performances Chant de Nigamon (Symphonic Poem) by Arthur Honegger 1/3 at Paris.
• The 673,575-acre park in Arizona includes the most spectacular part of the Colorado River’s great 217-mile canyon. National Park - February 26, 1919. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona is one of the earth's greatest natural wonders. 
• Le Tombeau de Couperin Suite for Orchestra by Maurice Ravel is performed on February 28.
• La Valse, a choreographic poem by Maurice Ravel 12/12 at Paris.
• The Eastman School of Medicine and Dentistry is founded at the University of Rochester
• by photography pioneer George Eastman whose company supplies the new motion picture industry with its raw film stock
• The pogo stick patented by U.S. inventor George B. Hansburg, 32, is a bouncing metal stick that thousands will ride in the 1920s and will be the basis of a dance number in The Ziegfeld Follies.
• Massive relocations of ethnic minorities begin in Europe. The Treaty of Neuilly sanctions the exchange of 46,000 Bulgarian Greeks for 120,000 Greek Bulgarians.
• The German passenger liners S.S. Vaterland and S.S. Bismarck are handed over to the British as war payments and are renamed the S.S. Leviathan and S.S. Majestic.
• Pierrot and Harlequin by Pablo Picasso and Nympheas by Claude Monet are two new paintings.
• Save the Children Foundation  was founded after World War One ended, to help children who suffered from the war.
• Eureka produces 2,000 vacuums a day because of improved production techniques.
• Charles Strite invents the First pop-up toaster.
• President Woodrow Wilson wins the Noble Peace Prize.
• 18th amendment is ratified.

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