Page 7: Historical Events In 1918

Apr 22   Mickey Vernon, baseball player   

Apr 23   Battle of Zeebrugge ends   

Apr 23   Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies   

Apr 23   USS Stewart destroys German submarine off France   

Apr 25   Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)   

Apr 25   Australians drive Germans from Villers-Bretonneux, France   

Apr 25   Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer is born.   

Apr 27   Giants' 9-0 winning start and Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped   

Apr 27   In this year, Lt. George Burdon McKean (14th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Gavrelle France   

Apr 27   John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent (ABC).   

Apr 29   Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22   

Apr 29   Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)   

Apr 29   Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays.   

Apr 30   Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen.   

Apr 30   W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940).   

May 02   Frederick Archibauld Warner, diplomat.   

May 02   General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.   

May 03   Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary   

May 04   Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking   

May 04   Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4.   

May 05   Erbie Bowser, pianist   

May 06   Godfrey Ridout, composer.   

May 07   Argeliers Leon, composer.   

May 09   Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes).   

May 10   HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor   

May 11   In this year, 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator claims in 2:10.8   

May 11   Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)   

May 12   Oscar Beregi Jr, Hungary, actor (Young Frankenstein, Panic in City).   

May 13   1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents)   

May 13   John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia).   

May 14   Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper (England 3 times early 50's).   

May 14   Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC   

May 15   1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila and Wash DC)   

May 15   Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime).   

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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,