A hundred years ago - 25/02/1920

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every day I will try to provide the most important events of the day a hundred years ago. If I forgot something that should be mentioned, let me know. Have a great day.

** 25/02/1919 **

- With the premiere of the drama "Freedom" by the German writer Herbert Kranz opened the Workers' Theater New Stage in Munich.

• In the British House of Commons in London, the so-called. Government of Ireland Act is introduced. The law of self-government of Ireland ( "Home rule") provides for a division of the island in a predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland, which covers the six counties of Ulster, and a southern, predominantly Catholic part of the country before.
  
  
• In France, a railway strike (up to 1.3.), Which is extended to a general strike on February 28 starts. In the background of the strike is the lack of willingness to negotiate the private railway companies over union organizations. Agreement reached in the March 1, the mediation of the French trade union leader Léon Jouhaux confess the railway companies, among others respect to the trade union law.