April 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1918 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
• 03 Apr 1918 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler.
• 04 Apr 1918 Food riot in Amsterdam.
• 05 Apr 1918 The US Treasury offers the Third Liberty Loan seeking $3 billion in bonds paying 4.5 percent interest.
• 09 Apr 1918 Latvia proclaims independence from Russia.
• 13 Apr 1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital.
• 14 Apr 1918 Douglas Campbell is first US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane).
• 15 Apr 1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French / Austrian documents
• 18 Apr 1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play.
• 21 Apr 1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as ''The Red Baron'', is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
• 23 Apr 1918 National Urban League forms.
• 29 Apr 1918 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of four unassisted double plays.
• 30 Apr 1918 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen.

Famous Birthday

• William Holden

  American actor (Born 1918).

• Betty Ford

  American First Lady when her husband, Gerald Ford, was sworn in as the nation's 38th president, minutes after Richard Nixon resigned,...

• Maurice Druon

  French novelist.

• Jorn Utzon
• Spike Milligan

  British director and writer best known for "The Goon Show," which began as a radio series on 5/28/1951 with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers,...

• André Bazin

  French film theorist, one of cinema's most important and influential thinkers.

• Akram Ojjeh
• Alain Savary

  French Socialist politician, deputy to the National Assembly of France during the Fourth and Fifth Republic, chairman of the Socialist Party...

• William Eythe

  American actor with international work from youth on stage and screen.

• Robert Escarpit

  French academic, writer and journalist.

• Louis Applebaum

  Canadian composer, conductor and administrator (d. 2000).

• Gabriel Axel

  Danish-French actor director and producer (d. 2014).

• Fanny Blankers-Koen
• Remo Brindisi

  Italian artist, well known for his subjects of the peasant life.

• Peanuts Hucko

  Syracuse, New York -- Dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show).

• Fraser Noble

  Scottish educator, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, 1962.

• Lou Menk

  American railroad entrepreneur who merged Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads into the largest...

• Morris Engel
• Glendon Swarthout

  American author and academic (d. 1992).

• William Smith

  American poet.

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Famous Deaths

• Lavr Georgevich Kornilov

  Russian general (Born 1870).

• Karl Ferdinand Braun

  German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1850).

• Karl Fritjof Valentin composer

  dies at age 64.

• Paul Vidal de la Blanche French geographer

  dies at age 73.

• "Red Baron"

  [Manfred von Richtofen] shot down in WWI at age 25.

• Percy Thomson Dean Lieutenant-commander

  killed at Zeebrugge, dies.

• Gavrilo Princip Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand

  dies at age 22.

• Manfred von Richthofen

  German captain and pilot (d. 1918).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Peerless Quartet - Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)
2. Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra - Maytime Waltz (Will You Remember?)
3. Henry Burr & Elizabeth Spencer - I'm Going to Follow the Boys
4. Prince's Orchestra - Long Boy
5. Prince's Orchestra - Indianola