Page 16: Historical Events In 1918

Oct 04   Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC in the year 1918.   

Oct 05   Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies in the year 1918.   

Oct 06   On this day in history uS ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die   

Oct 07   C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 in the year 1918.   

Oct 07   Guido Aristarco, film critic on this day in history.   

Oct 08   Capt. Coulson Norman Mitchell (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France in the year 1918.   

Oct 08   Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera) in the year 1918.   

Oct 08   Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans on this day in history.   

Oct 09   E Howard Hunt, Hamburg NY, involved in Watergate break-in in the year 1918.   

Oct 09   Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60 on this day in history.   

Oct 10   On this day in history baden's Geisz forms govt   

Oct 10   Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven) in the year 1918.   

Oct 11   In the year 1918 jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)   

Oct 11   Lt. Wallace L. Algie (20th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France on this day in history.   

Oct 11   In the year 1918 major Tsumani shakes Caribbean   

Oct 12   On this day in history 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)   

Oct 12   Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die in the year 1918.   

Oct 12   Emil Cossetto, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 12   On this day in history first use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)   

Oct 13   Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies on this day in history.   

Oct 13   On this day in history jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)   

Oct 14   On this day in history doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)   

Oct 15   British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 on this day in history.   

Oct 16   Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- ) on this day in history.   

Oct 16   In the year 1918 felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29   

Oct 17   On this day in history de Kooy airport in Netherlands opens   

Oct 17   Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies in the year 1918.   

Oct 17   On this day in history yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic   

Oct 18   Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco) in the year 1918.   

Oct 18   In the year 1918 czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire   

Oct 19   In the year 1918 joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34   

Oct 19   Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife) in the year 1918.   

Oct 20   On this day in history anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)   

Oct 20   In the year 1918 germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions   

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer, (WR 100m, 1:04.06)   

Jan 01   In the year 1918 birth of patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)   

Jan 02   Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943) was born in the year 1918.   

Jan 03   Maxene Andrews, Minn, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)   

Jan 06   Buddy Weed, Ossining NY, pianist (Penthouse Party) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 06   In the year 1918 birth of caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director (Ciske the Rat)   

Jan 07   Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 02   Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42 in the year 1918.   

Jan 06   On this day in history georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72   

Jan 08   On this day in history michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73   

Jan 09   In the year 1918 death of Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)   

Jan 24   On this day in history death of george Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)   

Jan 28   In the year 1918 john McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies   

Feb 02   On this day in history john L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59   

Feb 06   Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55 in the year 1918.