December 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1918 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
• 04 Dec 1918 President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
• 05 Dec 1918 Oil refinery on Cura?ao opens.
• 09 Dec 1918 French troops occupies Mainz.
• 12 Dec 1918 Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
• 13 Dec 1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany.
• 16 Dec 1918 Jack Dempsey knocks out Carl Morris in 14 seconds.
• 17 Dec 1918 Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
• 18 Dec 1918 The United States House of Representatives approves the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition.
• 19 Dec 1918 Robert Ripley begins his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe).
• 20 Dec 1918 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to the Czechoslovak Republic.
• 27 Dec 1918 The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
• 28 Dec 1918 Constance Markiewicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
• 30 Dec 1918 John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
• 31 Dec 1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager.

Famous Birthday

• Kurt Waldheim

  Austrian President 1986-1992, lawyer and diplomat, who served as the fourth Secretary General of the United Nations 1972-1981.

• Anwar Sadat

  Egyptian politician, President of Egypt and head of the Arab Socialist Union Party.

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Russian dissident writer, novelist and historian whose work brilliantly exposed the brutality of life in the Stalin era.

• Helmut Schmidt

  German Social Democratic (SPD) politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

• Mado Robin

  French singer, a lyric-coloratura with a voice of great agility and phenomenal range, greatly acclaimed.

• Pierre Delanoë

  French songwriter (d. 2006).

• Jeff Chandler

  American actor and singer (d. 1961).

• BKS Iyengar

  Indian yoga advocate.

• John Manolesco
• Gérard Souzay

  French baritone, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie (French art song) in the generation after Charles Panzéra and...

• Sonny Capone
• Audrey Totter

  Joliet, Illinois -- Actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up).

• Jose Greco

  Italian-American dancer; born in Italy and raised in Brooklyn, NY, becoming one of the greatest Spanish dancers.

• Antoine Riboud

  French businessman, the founder and president of Danone.

• Donald Regan

  American stockbroker, the President of Merrill Lynch in 1968, worth over $10 million by 1979.

• Bill Vukovich

  Indianapolis 500 driver, dies in crash at age 27.

• Anne Gwynne

  American film actress (Born 1918).

• Paul Toupin
• Juana Dona
• Angelica Garnett

  English artist and writer, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and artist Duncan Grant.

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Famous Deaths

• Margit Kaffka writer

  dies at age 38.

• Ivan Cankar Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej)

  dies at age 42.

• Sidonio Pais prince of Portugal

  murdered.

• Henryk Jarecki composer

  dies at age 72.

• Albijn van de Abeele Flemish author/mayor/painter

  dies at age 83.

• Bertram Luard-Selby composer

  dies at age 65.

• George H White last post Reconstruction congressman (Pennsylvania)

  dies.

• Schalk Willem Burger

  South African politician (Born 1852).

• Olavo Bilac

  Brazilian poet, journalist and critic, an acclaimed poet and chief member of a group related to the French Parnassians.

• Edmond Rostand

  French writer, a playwright and poet first published in 1890.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra - Oriental
2. Arthur Fields & Peerless Quartet - The Yanks Are at it Again
3. Lambert Murphy - Smiles
4. Arthur Fields - Oui, Oui, Marie
5. Lewis James - My Baby Boy