Update: Vevoda's Cellar or Events in Time and Space

It just occurred to me that the NV designation which means non-vintage (typically for blended wines) might be a reference through wordplay to look at current events while the book was written and published. So it would make sense to include Havana, 1946 along with the New York and Toronto events that I already included. While B____, 1906 still continues to elude me (although there is a good candidate from jillaggie), I was also able to discover that two sailing vessels sunk off the coast of County Galway, Ireland in 1831. One of the ships was the Cyclops, which might be another clue to James Joyce, especially as Joyce was descended from one of the tribes of Galway.  

1. Havana 1946: The date of Straka's apparent murder.
2. Noir Calais 1912: Fictional riot that takes place in 1912 at Calais, France in SOT.  Calais built the monument Le Pluviose in 1912 to commemorate the death of 27 when the steamer Pas de Calaise accidentally cause the submarine, Pluviose, to sink in May 1910, and the monument was not dedicated until 1913.  Per gz: Fourteen people were killed in a coal mine explosion at the Clarence Coal Company at Pas de Calais, France.
3. Noir Ypres 1915: Ypres, Belgium. Second battle of Ypres during World War I, notable because the it was the first time that the Germans used poison gas on a mass scale. 
4. Black Taranaki 1863:  The Second Taranaki War was a conflict between the Maori and New Zealand government. 
5. Noir Odessa 1871: The Odessa pogrom, one in a series of violence targeting the Jews in Odessa, a city in Ukraine. 
6. Noir Dahomey 1840: Dahomey was an African country ruled by a monarchy in what is now Benin.  Dahomey was involved in the profitable slave trade. In 1840, Dahomey attempted to take over Yoruba territory.
7. Noir Galway 1831:  This one is interesting doesn't appear to reference an act of violence.  The Wardenship of Galway was dissolved by the Church of Ireland in 1831.  Edmund Ffrench was the last warden.  Galway may also reference the tribes of Galway, a group of a powerful families that ran Galway until the late 19th century.  A magistrate does note that something was happening in Galway in 1831, but the details were not given in The Edinburgh Review. Two sailing vessels, the Cyclops and the Kelly, sank of the coast of County Galway in 1831.
8. Noir Bijapur 1791: Doji Bara famine in South Asia.  An El Nino event caused a drought in the area from 1791-1792.  In one estimate, famine and disease may have contributed to the deaths of 11 million people. 
9. Noir Adana 1909: The Adana Massacre occurred in Adana Province of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population there.
10. Noir Rio Negro 1879:  Basically a state-sponsored land grab from the indigenous populations, in 1878, a massive campaign started to clear the land between the Negro River and the Alsina Trench by armed forces. 
11. Noir Barkol 1756:  Refers to the Qing Dynasty's annexation of the area formerly controlled by the Zunghar Khanate. In 1756, the Chinese emperor ordered the death of all men in Barkol or Suzhou.  The murdered men's wives and children were given to soldiers in the emperor's army. 
12. Tangier (Jun) 1905:  The First Moroccan Crisis refers to Germany's support of Morocco as an independent state, but the support damaged Germany's relations with France and the U.S.  The crisis reached a peak in June 1905, and is considered a contributing factor to WWI. 
13. B___ (Oct) 1906:  Per jillaggie, potentially related to the MacLaren owned sawmill strike and subsequent killing of two labor leaders in Buckingham, Quebec.
14. Los Angeles (Dec) 1910:  Llewellyn Iron Works bombing was preceded by a bombing of the Los Angeles Times in October and resulted in the arrest and conviction of labor leaders. 
15. Tripoli (Sep) 1911:  The Italo-Turkish war was Italy's attempt to assert it rights over parts of what is now Libya.  It marked the use of the first aerial bomb dropped from an airplane. 
16. Salonika (Thessaloniki) (Mar) 1912:  Geekyzen and Jillp have brought it to me that Salonika is an alternate name for Thessaloniki.   And in 1912 Greece sunk an Ottoman ship, the Feth-i_Bülend in the harbor of Thessaloniki.
17. Berlin/Danzig 1908:  The line from Berlin to Danzig(Gdansk) is a rough border for the Polish corridor.  The German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia confiscated land and evicted the ethnic Polish population (although this was reversed in 1925). 
18. New York 1949:  (from the SOT copyright notice) Airplane crash on October 28th in the Azores.  The plane was headed for New York.  Also, the Peekskill riots happened in 1949.
19. Toronto 1949:  (from the SOT copyright notice) The SS Noronic disaster, a fire started in a linen closet and was fueled by the lemon scented furniture polish which led to several fatalities.