Historical Events In 1918

Oct 04   Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC in the year 1918.   

Oct 05   Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies on this day in history.   

Oct 06   On this day in history uS ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die   

Oct 07   C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Oct 07   On this day in history guido Aristarco, film critic   

Oct 08   On this day in history capt. Coulson Norman Mitchell (4th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France   

Oct 08   In the year 1918 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 in the year 1918.   

Oct 09   On this day in history michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60   

Oct 10   In the year 1918 baden's Geisz forms govt   

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

Oct 11   Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story) in the year 1918.   

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   Cloquet Minn and 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die on this day in history.   

Oct 12   On this day in history emil Cossetto, composer   

Oct 12   First use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital) in the year 1918.   

Oct 13   On this day in history gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe), dies   

Oct 13   In the year 1918 jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)   

Oct 14   Doug Ring, cricketer (Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's) on this day in history.   

Oct 15   On this day in history british Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6   

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

Oct 16   On this day in history felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29   

Oct 17   On this day in history de Kooy airport in Netherlands opens   

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

Oct 17   Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic in the year 1918.   

Oct 18   Bobby Troup, Harrisburg Pa, pianist/actor (Emergency, Acapulco) in the year 1918.   

Oct 18   Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire in the year 1918.   

Oct 19   On this day in history joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34   

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

Oct 20   In the year 1918 anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)   

Oct 20   On this day in history germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions   

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Jan 01   Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer, (WR 100m, 1:04.06) was born in the year 1918.   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)   

Jan 02   Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943) was born in the year 1918.   

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

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

Jan 02   Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42 in the year 1918.   

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 in the year 1918.   

Jan 09   Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844) died on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1918.   

Feb 02   John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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