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 Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (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.
• 14 Dec 1918 Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.

Famous Birthday

• Tola Rotimi

• Anwar Sadat

• Brookes Lee

• Alecxander Solzhenitsyn

• Yossef Ben-Jochannan

• Chihiro Iwasaki

• Alyxander Solzhenitsyn

• Lexander Solzhenitsyn

• Alezander Solzhenitsyn

• Maritta Wolff

• Peretz Bernstein

• Kurt Waldheim

• Yogi Ramsuratkumar

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Anwar Sadat

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Helmut Schmidt

• Mado Robin

• Pierre Delanoë

• Jeff Chandler

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Famous Deaths

• Hedwig Lachmann

• Abbie Lathrop

• Lazarus Ludwig

• Hobart Baker

• Randolph Bourne

• Olavo Bilac

• Ivan Cankar

• Alexander Dianin

• Aristeidis Moraitinis

• Abby Leach

• Schalk Willem Burger

• Frank Wilson

• Josip Stadler

• Edmond Rostand

• Schalk Willem Burger

• Bertram Luard-Selby composer

• Henryk Jarecki composer

• Ivan Cankar Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej)

• Albijn van de Abeele Flemish author/mayor/painter

• George H White last post Reconstruction congressman (Pennsylvania)

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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