Page 5: Historical Events In October - 18

1920  Anita O'Day, vocalist/actress (Outfit, Zigzag, Jazz on a Summer Day)   

1921  Jesse Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973- )   

1922  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established.   

1922  The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is officially formed.   

1922  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms   

1922  Camillo Togni, composer   

1923  Suzanne Perlman, Hungarian/Dutch Antilian painter.   

1924  Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs).   

1924  Allyn Ferguson, San Jose Calif, orch leader (Andy Williams Show).   

1925  Melina Mercouri, Actress who became Greek Minister of Culture is born.   

1925  -20] French Gen Sarrail bombs Damascus.   

1926  In this year, Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament.   

1927  George C Scott, American actor and director is born   

1929  Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.   

1930  Joseph Sylvester is recorded as becoming 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day.   

1931  Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84.   

1932  Belgium govt of Renkin falls   

1934  Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March   

1938  Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies   

1939  Lee Harvey Oswald, Presumed assassin of President J F Kennedy is born   

1939  R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in NYC.   

1940  HMS H.49,sunk off Texel island, Holland in North Sea by depth charges from German anti-submarine trawlers UJ.116 and UJ.118. On patrol off Dutch coast at time of threatened German invasion of Britain   

1940  Kaufman and Harts "George Washington Slept Here," premieres in NYC.   

1940  Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65.   

1941  Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo   

1941  Dirk Fock, governor-general van/of Neth-Indies 1921-6, dies at 83   

1942  Hitler orders allied commandos to be killed   

1943  US bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island.   

1943  Adrianus M de Young, writer (Merijntje Gijzen's Youth), dies at 55.   

1944  Hitler orders the establishment of "Volkssturm." Boys between fifteen and eighteen and men between fifty and sixty are drafted into service. The Nazis have to mobilize replacements for 500000 men.   

1944  Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II   

1944  Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery confer in Brussel   

1945  Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg   

1946  Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony, premieres   

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1127  On October - 18 birth of emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)   

1239  Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72) was born on this day in history.   

1405  Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia) was born on October - 18.   

1517  Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (d. 1570) was born on this day in history.   

1547  Justus Lipsius, [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist/historian was born on this day in history.   

1569  Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.   

1595  Edward Winslow, Plymouth Colony founder (d. 1655) was born on this day in history.   

1611  On October - 18 birth of valentin Strobel, composer   

0707  John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies on this day in history.   

1035  Death of Sancho III of Navarre on this day in history.   

1101  On this day in history death of hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France (b. 1053)   

1141  On October - 18 death of margrave Leopold IV of Austria   

1216  On October - 18 john, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies   

1340  On this day in history henry Henricus of Friemar, Augustine philosopher, dies   

1382  Death of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331) on this day in history.   

1417  Gregorius XII, [Angelo Correr], Pope (1406-15), dies on this day in history.