January 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1918 Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland.
• 03 Jan 1918 US employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor.
• 05 Jan 1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace.
• 08 Jan 1918 Mississippi becomes first state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition).
• 09 Jan 1918 Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
• 12 Jan 1918 Montreal Canadiens' Joe Malone scores five goals beating Ottawa 9-4.
• 14 Jan 1918 Finland and the USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
• 17 Jan 1918 Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• 18 Jan 1918 Constituent Assembly meet in Russia.
• 19 Jan 1918 Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly.
• 22 Jan 1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet).
• 24 Jan 1918 The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
• 25 Jan 1918 Russia declared a republic of Soviets.
• 26 Jan 1918 President Hoover calls for wheatless and meatless days for war effort
• 27 Jan 1918 The Finnish Civil War begins.
• 28 Jan 1918 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds.
• 29 Jan 1918 Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
• 31 Jan 1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.

Famous Birthday

• Abdel Gamal Nasser
• João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo
• John Forsythe

  American actor singer and producer (d. 2010).

• Louis-René Des Forets
• Oral Roberts

  American minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Church from his Call in 1935, becoming one of the best known evangelists in the world.

• Suzanne Flon

  Paris, France -- Actress (One Deadly Summer, Moulin Rouge).

• Émile Genevoix
• Luciano Emmer
• John H Johnson

  United States -- Publisher (Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet).

• Nevin S Scrimshaw

  American food scientist.

• Bernard Finch

  American physician convicted of homicide.

• Carole McDonald

  American singer who used her talent in clubs, on tours, in Las Vegas and with her husband's band from 1938-1983.

• Johnny Man Young
• Francesca Snethlage

  Dutch astrologer, researcher, author and data collector.

• Stirling Silliphant

  American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996).

• George Cook (guitarist)
• Willy den Ouden
• Richard Winters

  American soldier (d. 2011).

• Gertrude B Elion
• Gamal Abdal Nasser

  President of Egypt (d. 1970).

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Famous Deaths

• Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin

  Russian-counter revolutionary (Born 1861).

• Sijbe K Bakker vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism)

  dies at age 42.

• Georg F L P Cantor German mathematician collection

  dies at age 72.

• Michael Hertz composer

  dies at age 73.

• John McCrae Canadian poet/physician

  dies.

• Wilfred Campbell

  Canadian poet (Born 1858).

• Ellis H Roberts

  American politician (Born 1827).

• Emile Reynaud

  French scientist (Born 1844).

• George Arthur Crump

  Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (Born 1871).

• Georg Cantor

  German mathematician who is best known as the creator of modern set theory.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Victor Military Band - Sailin' Away On the Henry Clay
2. Prince's Orchestra - Over There
3. Peerless Quartet - I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way
4. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - The Old Grey Mare
5. Shannon Four - Melody Land