September 1918 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1918 Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns
• 03 Sep 1918 38th US Mens Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden
• 04 Sep 1918 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic Premier
• 05 Sep 1918 Decree ''On Red Terror'' is published in Russia
• 09 Sep 1918 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
• 10 Sep 1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
• 11 Sep 1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, four games to two in 15th World Series.
• 13 Sep 1918 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
• 15 Sep 1918 CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
• 18 Sep 1918 Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts
• 20 Sep 1918 Royal Dutch Blast furnace and Steel factory opens in Hague
• 26 Sep 1918 Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WWI
• 28 Sep 1918 The US offers the fourth Liberty Loan bond issue of $5 billion at 4.25 percent interest.
• 29 Sep 1918 Allied forces score a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line.

Famous Birthday

• Slimane Azem
• René Rémond

  French historian, political scientist and political economist.

• André Essel

  French entrepreneur and political activist.

• Hans Scholl

  German patriot, an active member of the resistance movement "Die Weisse Rose".

• Paul Auriol

  French public administrator, son of president Vincent Auriol (in office 1947 - 1954) and husband of famous jet pilot Jacqueline Auriol.

• Maurice Bernard Endrebe
• Paul Harvey (broadcaster)
• Henryk Szeryng

  Zelazowa Wola, Poland -- Violinist (Brahms Concerto).

• Walter Philip Leber
• Dick Haymes

  Argentinean-American singer who began his career as a radio announcer, band vocalist and occasional film extra.

• Malcolm Winfield Cagle
• Rand Brooks

  Los Angeles California; actor (Corporal Boone-Rin Tin Tin).

• Bill Talbert
• Ángel Labruna

  Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983).

• Rosemary Kennedy

  Daughter of an important American family, third child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, first sister of President John F. Kennedy (29 May 1917),...

• Cachao Lopez

  Cuban mambo musician (Born 1918).

• Gerald Wilson

  Shelby, Mississippi -- Orchestra leader (Redd Foxx).

• Luis Alcoriza

  Actor / writer / director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema.

• Paul Harvey

  Actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73.

• Jean-Marie Poitras

  Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2009).

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Famous Deaths

• John Ireland

  Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992).

• Max Dauthendy

  German Painter / Author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51.

• Liza Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Ernest Bristow Farrar

  Composer, dies at 33.

• George Reid

  Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician 4th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918).

• Georg Simmel

  German sociologist and philosopher (Born 1858).

• Freddie Stowers

  American soldier (Born 1896).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - When You Come Home
2. Nora Bayes - The Man Who Put the Germ in Germany
3. Charles Hart & Elliot Shaw - My Belgian Rose
4. Lewis James - The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
5. Marion Harris - When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France