Page 5: Historical Events In September - 01
Sunday, 18 January 2026
1888 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens 

1890 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh. 

1893 yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer. 

1895 Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel) 

1896 johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62. 

1897 Subway service in Boston, MA begins 

1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the inaugural underground rapid transit system in North America 

1898 Dutch soccer team Receiver forms 

1898 marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford. 

1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) 

1901 Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange 

1902 Tinker, Evers, and Chance appear together for 1st time 

1903 charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies. 

1904 johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail). 

1905 alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces. 

1905 gervase Hughes, composer. 

1906 in this year, Alberta formally adopts Mountain Standard Time. 

1906 Papua placed under Australian administration 

1907 Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic 

1908 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist 

1910 jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story). 

1911 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km 

1911 komei Abe, composer. 

1912 sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62. 

1913 george Bernard Shaws "Androcles and the Lion," premieres in London. 

1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd 

1914 34th US Mens Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (63 86 10-8). 

1914 martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo. 

1916 keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce). 

1916 bulgaria declares war on Romania. 

1916 Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner 

1918 Baseball season ends due to WW I 

1918 Sgt. John Gilroy Grant, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bancourt France 

1918 sS City of Glasgow, a Ellerman Lines ship of 6457 grt and built in 1906, she was torpedoed by German submarine UB118 21 miles east of Tuskar Rock in St George's Channel whilst en-route from Manchester to Montreal in ballast. 12 of the crew were lost. 

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