Page 16: Historical Events In 1918

Oct 04   Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history c Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70   

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

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

Oct 08   On this day in history ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor (Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera)   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 09   In the year 1918 michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60   

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

Oct 10   On this day in history bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader (Club Seven)   

Oct 11   On this day in history 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   Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean in the year 1918.   

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

Oct 12   In the year 1918 cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die   

Oct 12   Emil Cossetto, composer in the year 1918.   

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 in the year 1918.   

Oct 13   Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist) on this day in history.   

Oct 14   In the year 1918 doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's)   

Oct 15   British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 in the year 1918.   

Oct 16   On this day in history bill Nichols, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )   

Oct 16   Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.   

Oct 17   De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens on this day in history.   

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

Oct 17   Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic on this day in history.   

Oct 18   In the year 1918 bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco)   

Oct 18   Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire on this day in history.   

Oct 19   Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34 on this day in history.   

Oct 19   On this day in history louis Althusser, French philosopher (For Marx, Strangled His Wife)   

Oct 20   Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna) on this day in history.   

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

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Jan 01   In the year 1918 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1918 birth of maxene Andrews, Minn, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)   

Jan 05   In the year 1918 birth of jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)   

Jan 06   In the year 1918 birth of buddy Weed, Ossining NY, pianist (Penthouse Party)   

Jan 06   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 08   In the year 1918 michael Hertz, composer, dies at 73   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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   John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies on this day in history.   

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

Feb 06   On this day in history gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55