March 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1918 The German submarine off Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland.
• 02 Mar 1918 New York Yankees purchase first baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers and immediately trades him to Philadelphia Athletics.
• 03 Mar 1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
• 04 Mar 1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921).
• 06 Mar 1918 The Finnish Air Force is founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
• 09 Mar 1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens.
• 11 Mar 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
• 12 Mar 1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 13 Mar 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms.
• 17 Mar 1918 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Rosemary Beresford.
• 18 Mar 1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam.
• 19 Mar 1918 S Potter becomes first US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane.
• 21 Mar 1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
• 30 Mar 1918 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2.
• 31 Mar 1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.

Famous Birthday

• Sam Walton

  American entrepreneur, the founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club and personification of the American Dream of self-made success.

• François de Grossouvre
• François Dalle

  French company executive, who served as CEO of L'Oréal between 1957 and 1984.

• Howard Cosell

  American sports broadcaster and commentator.

• Pearl Bailey

  American entertainer in vaudeville, night clubs, films and records.

• George Lincoln Rockwell

  founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967).

• Norbert Carbonnaux

  French film director.

• Eilen Herlie
• Georges Bellec

  Founded vocalist and humoristic band "Les frères Jacques" with his brother André.

• Pierre-Jean Vaillard

  French humourist, cabaret artist, satirical writer, and radio presenter.

• Isaac Rosenfeld

  American writer, a critic, essayist, novelist and short story writer.

• James F Hollingsworth
• James Tobin

  American economist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002).

• Peter O'Sullevan
• Jacques Baumel

  French resistance fighter (under the aliases 'Saint-Just' ',' 'Berneix' or 'Rossini'), deputy in the National Assembly, a Senator, an...

• Jacques Baratier

  French director of shorts and occasional features.

• Mickey Spillane

  American writer who began selling his stories in 1935 to slick and pulp magazines.

• Arthur Kornberg

  American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007).

• Michel Castaing

  French historian, also an expert in paleography (the study of old handwriting) and a bookseller.

• Fima Noveck
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Famous Deaths

• Lewis A Grant

  American Civil War General (Born 1828).

• Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren composer

  dies at age 64.

• [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind German writer/press secretary

  dies at age 53.

• Karel Stecker composer

  dies at age 57.

• Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger composer

  dies at age 24.

• Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer

  dies at age 82.

• Lili Boulanger composer

  dies at age 24.

• Willem Coenen composer

  dies at age 80.

• Willem H de Beaufort Dutch historian/liberal politician

  dies at age 73.

• Cesar Cortinas composer

  dies at age 27.

• Theophile Ysaye composer

  dies at age 53.

• Claude A Debussy French composer (Iberia/La mer)

  dies in Paris France at age 55.

• Cesar Cui

  Russian composer (Born 1835).

• Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

  American architect (Born 1847).

• Peter Martin

  Australian rules footballer (Born 1875).

• Claude Debussy

  French composer and pianist.

• Frank Wedekind

  German actor and dramatist who became an intense personal force in the German artistic world on the eve of World War I..

• Henry Adams

  American journalist historian and author (d. 1918).

• Henry Adams

  American journalist historian and author (d. 1918).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Thomas Chalmers - The Battle Hymn of the Republic
2. Oscar Seagle - Calling Me Home to You
3. Philadelphia Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski, Conductor) - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Scherzo
4. Irving Kaufman - Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here
5. Van & Schenck - I Don't Want to Get Well