Page 3: Historical Events In 1918

Feb 08   On this day in history john Intoxication, resistance fighter   

Feb 09   Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA in the year 1918.   

Feb 09   Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va in the year 1918.   

Feb 09   Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30 on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain in the year 1918.   

Feb 13   In the year 1918 helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)   

Feb 14   H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

Feb 14   In the year 1918 uSSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar   

Feb 15   1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland in the year 1918.   

Feb 15   In the year 1918 estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar   

Feb 15   First WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day) on this day in history.   

Feb 16   Patty Andrews, American singer in the year 1918.   

Feb 17   Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian PM (1896-1911), dies on this day in history.   

Feb 20   Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire on this day in history.   

Feb 21   Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine on this day in history.   

Feb 22   Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia on this day in history.   

Feb 23   Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School) on this day in history.   

Feb 23   First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory in the year 1918.   

Feb 24   In the year 1918 estonia declares independence from Russia   

Feb 25   Henry Norwood Ewell, Harrisburg Pa, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1948) in the year 1918.   

Feb 26   Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher (Bkln Dodgers) in the year 1918.   

Feb 26   Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 in the year 1918.   

Feb 28   Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire) in the year 1918.   

Mar 01   On this day in history johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64   

Mar 01   On this day in history spanish flu (pandemic) in Worldwide killing 17-100 million people   

Mar 01   Typhus in Russia in the year 1918.   

Mar 02   NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Phila A's on this day in history.   

Mar 02   On this day in history peter O'Sullevan, Ireland, horse racing commentator   

Mar 03   On this day in history arnold Newman, photographer (Faces USA)   

Mar 03   Richard Göring's "Seeschlacht", premieres in Berlin in the year 1918.   

Mar 03   On this day in history russia withdraws from WWI, signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany & Austria   

Mar 04   In the year 1918 eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58   

Mar 04   In the year 1918 terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)   

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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   On this day in history birth of patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)   

Jan 02   In the year 1918 birth of willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)   

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

Jan 05   Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy) was born in the year 1918.   

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   On this day in history birth of alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)   

Jan 02   On this day in history sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42   

Jan 06   Georg F L P Cantor, German mathematician: collection, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

Jan 08   Michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) died in the year 1918.   

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   John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 02   John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59 in the year 1918.   

Feb 06   In the year 1918 gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55