Day Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested. May 2 – Weimar Republic troops and the Freikorps occupy Munich and crush the Bavarian Soviet Republic. May 3 – Amānullāh Khān attacks the British government in India. May 4 The May Fourth Movement erupts in China as a result of the decision at the Paris Peace Conference to transfer former German concessions in Jiaozhou Bay to Japan rather than return sovereign authority to China. The League of Red Cross Societies is formed in Paris. May 6 – The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins. May 8 – Edward George Honey proposes a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I. May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4, commanded by Albert Cushing Read, makes the first transatlantic flight, from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Trepassey, Newfoundland (departs May 16) and the Azores (arrives May 17). (On May 30–31 it flies on to Plymouth in England.) May 9 – In Belgium, a new electoral law introduces universal manhood suffrage and gives the franchise to certain classes of women. May 14 – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor. May 15 Greek landing at Smyrna: The Hellenic Army lands at Smyrna assisted by ships of the British Royal Navy. A law providing for full women's suffrage in the Netherlands is introduced. Winnipeg general strike: Workers in Winnipeg, Canada launch a strike for better wages and working conditions. May 17 – The Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg general strike. May 19 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also an official day of Turkish Youth. Volcano Kelud erupts in Java, killing about 5,000. May 23 – The University of California opens its second campus in Los Angeles. Initially called Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC), it is eventually renamed the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). May 25 – Estonian War of Independence: Estonian forces capture Pskov from the Red Army, and soon hand it over to the White forces. May 27 Fyodor Raskolnikov is exchanged for 14