Page 15: Historical Events In 1918

Sep 16   On this day in history baroness Pike, MP   

Sep 18   In the year 1918 australians attack on the Hindenburg Line   

Sep 18   In the year 1918 battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts   

Sep 18   Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33 in the year 1918.   

Sep 18   On this day in history john Berger, politician   

Sep 19   Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Sep 20   Peg Phillips, actress (Ruth Ann-Northern Exposure) in the year 1918.   

Sep 20   Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague on this day in history.   

Sep 21   In the year 1918 rand Brooks, LA Calif, actor (Cpl Boone-Rin Tin Tin)   

Sep 22   Archibald James Potter, composer in the year 1918.   

Sep 24   In the year 1918 audra Lindley, LA Calif, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers)   

Sep 25   John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80 in the year 1918.   

Sep 25   Phil Rizzuto, Bkln NY, sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950) on this day in history.   

Sep 26   In the year 1918 battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I   

Sep 26   In the year 1918 humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director (ANP/Reuter)   

Sep 26   On this day in history meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I   

Sep 27   In the year 1918 jame McCallion, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Mi Taylor-National Velvet)   

Sep 27   Lt. George Fraser Kerr (3rd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France on this day in history.   

Sep 27   Lt. Graham T. Lyall (102 Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France on this day in history.   

Sep 27   On this day in history lt. Samuel L. Honey (78th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France   

Sep 28   Lt. Milton Fowler Gregg (Royal Canadian Regiment) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France in the year 1918.   

Sep 29   In the year 1918 allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line   

Sep 29   Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line in the year 1918.   

Sep 29   In the year 1918 australians storm the Hindenburg Line, France   

Sep 29   Capt. John McGregor (2nd Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France in the year 1918.   

Sep 29   Captain GH Wilkins, official AIF photographer, rallies United States troops at the battle of the Hindenburg Line, while taking photographs For this action he is awarded a bar to his Military Cross, becoming the only Australian official photographer to be decorated for bravery in the field in the year 1918.   

Sep 29   Don Castle, TX, actor (Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol) in the year 1918.   

Sep 30   On this day in history lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service   

Sep 30   In the year 1918 prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France   

Oct 01   Antonio Iglesias Alvares, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 01   Australian Light Horsemen take Damascus, Syria in the year 1918.   

Oct 01   Sgt. William Merrifield (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Abancourt, France on this day in history.   

Oct 01   In the year 1918 world War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.   

Oct 03   Boris becomes king of Bulgaria in the year 1918.   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Maxene Andrews, Minn, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy) was born in the year 1918.   

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 in the year 1918.   

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   In the year 1918 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   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   In the year 1918 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 in the year 1918.   

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

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