August 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1918 British troops enter Vladivostok
• 02 Aug 1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 06 Aug 1918 Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France
• 08 Aug 1918 Canada / Australian / British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
• 09 Aug 1918 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him for indifferent play
• 10 Aug 1918 Russian Revolution: The British commander in Archangel is told to help the White Russians.
• 11 Aug 1918 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans.
• 13 Aug 1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
• 15 Aug 1918 Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
• 16 Aug 1918 US troops overthrows Archangelsk
• 17 Aug 1918 British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
• 20 Aug 1918 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I.
• 21 Aug 1918 World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
• 24 Aug 1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever
• 27 Aug 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
• 28 Aug 1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
• 29 Aug 1918 Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive
• 30 Aug 1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence Republic
• 31 Aug 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended September 2)

Famous Birthday

• Leonard Bernstein

  American musician, a pianist, conductor and composer of symphonies, ballets, musical comedies, chamber music and film scores; a fabulous...

• Leonor Fini
• Ted Williams

  American baseball player who played professional baseball from 1937, but had his career interrupted by five years of combat as a Marine...

• André Arnaud
• Ike Quebec

  American tenor-saxophone player (Born 1918).

• Andrée Clément

  French actress and comedienne.

• Jacqueline Susann

  American writer, the most prosperous woman novelist in the history of U.S.

• Lucien Jeunesse

  French radio host, actor, crooner and operetta singer, who died on 4 May 2008.

• Marwayne Leipzig
• Sidney Gottlieb

  American chemist, a career member of the CIA who developed the Mind Control Program.

• Anneliese Uhlig
• Garland Lawing

  American baseball player nicknamed "Knobby," a right-handed catcher who played two games for the Cincinnati Reds and eight games for the New...

• Eduardo Fajardo
• Richard Greene (actor)
• Robert Aldrich

  Director / producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65.

• Jeanette Glenn
• Raymond Gallois-Montbrun

  French musician and composer, born in Vietnam.

• Artur Brauner
• Sid Bernstein

  American record producer (d. 2013).

• Jacques Monod (actor)
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Famous Deaths

• Albert P Hahn

  Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41.

• Gertrude E Durden Rush

  US Composer / playwright, dies at 38.

• Peter Gast

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Joe English

  Irish / Flemish signaler (WWI), dies at 36.

• John Riley Banister

  American cowboy and Texas Ranger (Born 1854).

• Moisei Uritsky

  Russian revolutionary (Born 1873).

• Erich Loewenhardt

  German flying ace (Born 1897).

• Korbinian Brodmann

  German neurologist (Born 1868).

• Max Dauthendey

  German author and painter (d. 1918).

• Anna Held

  Polish-born American actress and singer (Born 1872).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Arthur Fields - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
2. Olive Kline - Bring Back My Soldier Boy to Me
3. Shannon Four - What are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?
4. Al Jolson - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
5. Farber Sisters - If He Can Fight Like He Can Love (Good Night, Germany)