Page 16: Historical Events In 1918

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

Oct 09   Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60.   

Oct 10   Baden's Geisz forms govt   

Oct 10   Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven)   

Oct 11   In this year, Lt. Wallace L. Algie (20th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France.   

Oct 11   Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)   

Oct 11   Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean   

Oct 12   1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)   

Oct 12   Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die   

Oct 12   Emil Cossetto, composer   

Oct 12   inaugural use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)   

Oct 13   Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies   

Oct 13   Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)   

Oct 14   Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)   

Oct 15   British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6.   

Oct 16   Bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- ).   

Oct 16   Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29   

Oct 17   De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens   

Oct 17   Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb S African batsman 1905-12), dies   

Oct 17   Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic   

Oct 18   Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)   

Oct 18   Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire   

Oct 19   Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34   

Oct 19   Louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife).   

Oct 20   Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)   

Oct 20   Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions.   

Oct 21   Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.   

Oct 21   The Mount Royal Tunnel, Montreal, is opened for regular traffic by the Canadian Northern Railway.   

Oct 23   Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17)   

Oct 23   James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center).   

Oct 24   Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86.   

Oct 25   Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die.   

Oct 25   Nearly 400 passengers drown when the Canadian steamship Princess Sophia founders off the Alaskan coast.   

Oct 26   Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe   

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Jan 01   Willy den ouden: Dutch swimmer, (wr 100m, 1:04.06)   

Jan 01   Patrick anthony porteous: Scottish victoria cross recipient   

Jan 02   Willi graf: German anti-nazi activist    

Jan 03   Maxene andrews: Minn, singer (andrew sisters-boogie woogie bugle boy)   

Jan 05   Jean dixon: Psychic (gift of prophecy)   

Jan 06   Buddy weed: Ossining ny, pianist (penthouse party)   

Jan 06   Caspar mb "cas" baas: Dutch actor/playwright/director (ciske the rat)   

Jan 07   Alessadro natta: Italian political leader (communist party)   

Jan 02   Sijbe k bakker: Vicar/theologist (christian-socialism),    

Jan 06   Georg f l p cantor: German mathematician: collection,   

Jan 08   Michael hertz: Composer,   

Jan 09   Émile reynaud: French scientist (b. 1844)   

Jan 24   George arthur crump: Founder of the pine valley golf club in clementon nj (b. 1871)   

Jan 28   John mccrae: Canadian poet/physician,    

Feb 02   John l sullivan: Mass, heavyweight boxing champ,    

Feb 06   Gustav klimt: Austrian painter/cartoonist,