June 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1918 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
• 06 Jun 1918 World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood : The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
• 10 Jun 1918 The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
• 12 Jun 1918 Grand Duke Michael of Russia is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be murdered by the Bolsheviks.
• 13 Jun 1918 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
• 15 Jun 1918 50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6
• 22 Jun 1918 32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats E E Goss
• 24 Jun 1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 25 Jun 1918 Baku-Turkish communist party forms
• 26 Jun 1918 World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood : Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
• 30 Jun 1918 In Richardton, North Dakota, USA, a chondrite meteorite falls striking a building.

Famous Birthday

• Patachou

  French actress and singer who made her debut in "Femmes de Paris," 1953, and was renowned for her passionate versions of Georges Brassens’...

• Isobel Barnett

  British TV personality who is famed for the show, "What's My Line?" She basked in the attention and popularity of the program and as the...

• Robert Preston

  American actor who never fit into type casting.

• Franco Modigliani

  Italian-American economist and author of books and essays on economics.

• Aimé Duval

  French Jesuit priest, singer-songwriter and guitarist who was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s.

• Evelle Younger

  American politician, former judge and gubernatorial candidate.

• Adolph Kiefer

  American swimmer.

• Paul Cadéac
• Jacques Richez

  French artist, a painter and graphic designer who created logos for Expo'89, Région de Bruxelles, and more.

• Donald G Nunn
• Jan Bernard Gieles
• Charles Dupuis
• Bernard Alexandre
• Samuel Z Arkoff

  American film producer (Born 1918).

• John D Roberts

  American chemist.

• Richard E Lyng
• Leonard Skeggs

  Fremont Scientist.

• Barry Morse

  British actor.

• Duncan Lamont (actor)
• Ajahn Chah

  Thai monk and educator (d. 1992).

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Famous Deaths

• Jaroslav Novotny

  Composer, dies at 32.

• Arrigio Enrico Boito

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Friedrich Richard Faltin

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Derek Barber

  CEO (Countryside Commission).

• Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia

  younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II (Born 1878) (murdered).

• Jake Beckley

  American baseball player and coach (d. 1918).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Orpheus Quartet - Some Day They're Coming Home Again
2. Prince's Orchestra - Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight
3. Billy Murray - K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)
4. Al Jolson - N Everything
5. Al Jolson - Wedding Bells (Will They Ever Ring for Me?)