Today in History for April 1918

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 18 of 18

1st - United Kingdom's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force
1st - Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC
3rd - House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
4th - Battle of Somme, ends
4th - Food riot in Amsterdam
9th - Latvia proclaims independence
13th - Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
14th - Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
15th - Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
18th - Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
20th - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
21st - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
23rd - Battle of Zeebrugge ends
23rd - Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
23rd - National Urban League forms
27th - Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
29th - Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays
30th - Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 47 of 47

3rd - Enrique Iturriaga, composer
3rd - Louis Applebaum, composer
3rd - Sixten Ehrling, Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
4th - Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)
6th - Joan Bernard, Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham)
6th - Karen Verne, Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X)
6th - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
7th - C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
7th - Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
7th - Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
7th - Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
7th - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
8th - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
8th - Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
9th - Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House)
10th - Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
11th - Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, journalist
11th - Richard Wainwright, MP
11th - William Perrie, British prison governor
US First Lady Betty Ford (8th) 12th - 18th earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire
13th - Audrey Barker, writer
14th - Mary Healy, New Orleans, actress (2nd Fiddle, He Married his Wife)
15th - John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
16th - Spike Milligan, India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
16th - Joan Alexander, American actress
16th - Dick Gibson, British racing driver
17th - Anne Shirley, UK, actress (Devil & Daniel Webster, Stella Dallas)
17th - William Holden, Ill, actor (Stalag 17, Bridge Over River Kwai, SOB)
18th - Robert Zimonyi, Hungary, cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
18th - Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy)
18th - Tony Mottola, Kearney NJ, guitarist/host (Melody Street)
18th - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
22nd - Mickey Vernon, baseball player
23rd - Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
23rd - Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
23rd - Gordon Hirabayshi, Seattle, Washington, American civil rights activist and WWII internment opponent (Hirabayshi v. United States), (d. 2012)
25th - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
25th - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
26th - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Holland, 100m/200m dash, hurdler (Olym-gold-1948)
26th - Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar (Leeds University)
26th - Stafford Repp, California, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman, Plunder Road)
27th - John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent (ABC)
27th - Kirby Stone, NYC, jazz combo leader (Baubles Bangles & Beads)
27th - Willem N "Pim" Koot, pianist of Concert building (Oh, Lady! Lady!)
27th - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy
29th - Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
30th - W Donald McNeill, tennis champ (US Open-1940)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

12th - American Playwright Eugene O'Neill marries 2nd wife novelist Agnes Boulton

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

1st - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
5th - Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, dies at 73
11th - Arthur Ochse, cricketer (WW I played for S Afr in 1889 aged 19), dies
13th - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
20th - Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
21st - "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
21st - Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25
23rd - Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
29th - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22