November 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1918 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
• 03 Nov 1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I.
• 04 Nov 1918 Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
• 06 Nov 1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
• 07 Nov 1918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.
• 08 Nov 1918 Pro-German Supreme Commander general Cutters lay-offs
• 09 Nov 1918 Republic Germany proclaimed
• 10 Nov 1918 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to the Netherlands
• 11 Nov 1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends
• 12 Nov 1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic.
• 13 Nov 1918 Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck and Pyrmont abdicates throne
• 14 Nov 1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President.
• 17 Nov 1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
• 18 Nov 1918 Brussels free Stofnar
• 21 Nov 1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
• 22 Nov 1918 Bathe: grand Duke Frederik II resigns
• 23 Nov 1918 Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 25 Nov 1918 Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria : Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
• 26 Nov 1918 The Podgorica Assembly votes for ''union of the people'', declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
• 28 Nov 1918 Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates
• 29 Nov 1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro
• 30 Nov 1918 Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the ''Orchestre de la Suisse Romande''.

Famous Birthday

• Billy Graham

  American evangelist, a Southern Baptist preacher who was "born again" as a teen, accepting Jesus as his personal savior.

• Hervé Bromberger
• Renée Faure

  French stage and film actress, who served on the jury at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

• Raimon Panikkar

  Catalan philosopher (Born 1918).

• Spiro Agnew

  American lawyer and politician, the Governor of Maryland 1967-69 and Vice-president under Nixon, 1969.

• Ivan Tourgueniev
• Art Carney

  American actor and comedian on stage, screen and TV.

• Efrem Zimbalist Jr

  American actor.

• Madeleine L'Engle

  American author of novels, essays, short stories, poems, children's books, science fiction.

• Ernst Otto Fischer

  German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007).

• Claude Barma

  French-Italian director and screenwriter, and an early creator of French television programmes.

• Jean Servier

  French scientist, Professor of Ethnology and Sociology from 1956.

• Cameron Mitchell

  Dallastown, Pennsylvania -- Actor (Buck-High Chaparral).

• Florence Chadwick

  American swim champion and stockbroker, she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.

• Tasker Watkins

  Welsh soldier judge and politician Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2007).

• Jacqueline Plessis

  France Actor.

• Bob Feller

  American sailor baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2010).

• Paul Aussaresses

  French army general who fought during World War II, Indochina war, and Algerian war where his actions caused considerable controversy.

• Patricio Aylwin

  Chilean lawyer and politician 31st President of Chile.

• Stephen Elliott

  American actor (d. 2005).

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Famous Deaths

• Wilfred Owens

  Anti-war Poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25.

• Guillaume Apollinaire [Kostrowitsky]

  Fr Poet (Alcools), dies at 38.

• Victor Adler

  Austrian neurologist / foreign minister.

• Alexis Contant

  Composer, dies at 60.

• Harald Kidde

  Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40.

• Georges Antoine

  Composer, dies at 26.

• Marten Baersma [MH Bottema]

  Fries author, dies at 28.

• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov

  Russian scientist (Born 1857).

• Joseph F Smith

  president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1838).

• Peter Lumsden

  British general in Indian army (Born 1829).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. John McCormack - Love's Garden of Roses
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - When Uncle Joe Steps into France
3. Alma Gluck - The Lost Chord
4. Sterling Trio - When You Sang Hush-A-Bye to Me
5. Charles Harrison - I'm Always Chasing Rainbows