October 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a ''Lawrence of Arabia'') capture Damascus.
• 03 Oct 1918 Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
• 04 Oct 1918 Musical Sometime with Mae West premieres in New York City
• 06 Oct 1918 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, 425 die
• 08 Oct 1918 World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York leads an attack that kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
• 09 Oct 1918 Landgrave Friedrich Karl of Hessen-Kassel is elected King of Finland.
• 11 Oct 1918 Puerto Rico earthquake: The city of Mayagüez and adjacent towns are nearly destroyed by a 7.5 earthquake and a tsunami.
• 12 Oct 1918 Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800
• 13 Oct 1918 Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
• 15 Oct 1918 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
• 17 Oct 1918 De Kooy airport in the Netherlands opens
• 18 Oct 1918 Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
• 20 Oct 1918 Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
• 21 Oct 1918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for one min.
• 23 Oct 1918 Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris
• 25 Oct 1918 Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die.
• 26 Oct 1918 Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe
• 28 Oct 1918 World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
• 29 Oct 1918 The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German revolution.
• 30 Oct 1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state.
• 31 Oct 1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week

Famous Birthday

• Rita Hayworth

  American actress who was one of the most famous pin-up girls of WW II.

• Louis Althusser

  French-Algerian philosopher and teacher at the ENS, a Marxist and an author.

• René de Obaldia
• Jacqueline Porel

  France Actor.

• Henri Vernes
• Jean Ferniot

  Paris 14éme Journalist.

• Jacques Faizant
• Robert Walker

  American actor who made a film debut in "Bataan," 1943, followed by "Since You Went Away," and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," 1944.

• Maurice Chavardès
• Teresa Wright

  NYC, New York -- Actress (Eleanor Gehrig-Pride of the Yankees).

• Dimitri Chorafas
• Lila Kedrova

  Russian-born actress (Born 1918).

• Geori Boue

  French lyric soprano who sang opera and operetta.

• Edgard Pisani
• Robert Smith Johnston
• Jerome Robbins

  American director producer and choreographer (d. 1998).

• Anton Diffring

  Koblenz, Germany -- Actor (Assignment Vienna).

• E Howard Hunt

  Hamburg, New York -- Involved in Watergate break-in.

• Giovanni Cheli

  Italian ecclesiastic and Roman Catholic theologian.

• Robert Edwin Lee
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Famous Deaths

• Michail V Alekseyev

  Russian General (WWI), murdered at 60.

• Gerrit Engelke

  German writer (Briefer der Liebe).

• Felix Arndt

  Composer, dies at 29.

• Joseph Lesage

  French Painter / etcher (WWI), dies at 34.

• Alexander Charles Lecocq

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Stephen Tisza

  Hungarian Prime Minister (-1917), assassinated by soldiers.

• C Hubert H Parry

  Engl musicologist / Composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70.

• Ulisse Dini

  Italian mathematician (Born 1845).

• Sai Baba of Shirdi

  Indian religious figure (Born c. 1838).

• Egon Schiele

  Austrian Expressionist painter, draftsman, and printmaker noted for the eroticism of his figurative works.

• Harold Lockwood

  American actor and director (d. 1918).

• Roland Garros

  French soldier and pilot (d. 1918).

• Myrtle Gonzalez

  American film and stage actress (Born 1891).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr & Albert Campbell - After You've Gone
2. Helen Clark - One for All and All for One
3. Harry Ellis - While You're Away
4. Arthur Fields - Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
5. Harry Macdonough & Shannon Four - Good-Bye, Mother Machree