Today in History for November 1918

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 44 of 44

1st - 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
1st - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
3rd - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
3rd - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
4th - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors
6th - Republic of Poland proclaimed
6th - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
7th - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
7th - United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
7th - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd
7th - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
7th - Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
8th - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
9th - Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
9th - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
9th - Republic Germany proclaimed
10th - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
10th - Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski
10th - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
11th - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
11th - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
11th - Poland declares independence
11th - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
11th - Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies & Germany sign armistice
12th - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
13th - Monarch Friedrich of Waldeck & Pyrmont abdicates throne
13th - Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
13th - Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
14th - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
16th - Hungarian People's Republic declared
17th - Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
18th - Brussels free Stofnar
18th - Latvia declares independence from Russia
21st - 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
21st - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
22nd - Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
22nd - King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
22nd - Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
22nd - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
24th - Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
26th - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
28th - Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany, abdicates
28th - Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
29th - Serbia annexes Montenegro

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35

3rd - Bob Feller, pitcher (Cleve Indian, 3 no-hitters)
3rd - Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
3rd - Bob Feller, baseball player
3rd - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
3rd - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
4th - Art Carney, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners)
4th - Cameron Mitchell, Dallastown Pa, actor (Buck-High Chaparral)
6th - Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz)
7th - Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
7th - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
7th - Paul Aussaresses, French general
8th - Hermann Zapf, German designer
9th - Howard Shanet, Brooklyn NY, conductor (Night of the Tropics)
9th - Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), crook
9th - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
9th - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
10th - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
10th - Jack McCoy, Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
10th - Martin Hanley, cricketer (took 1-88 with off-spin in Test for S Afr)
10th - Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
11th - Jurg Baur, composer
11th - Stubby Kaye, NYC, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou)
13th - Janine Andrade, French violinist
18th - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
19th - Catherine Elizabeth Pennington, personal assistant
20th - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
22nd - Claiborne Pell, (Sen-D-RI, 1961- )
24th - Roley Jenkins, cricketer (English leg-spinner 1948-52)
24th - Tom "Stubby" Fouts, Carroll County Ind, actor (Polka-go-round)
24th - William Strethan "Wild Bill" Davis, musician
26th - Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
27th - Zeev Wolfgang Steinberg, composer
29th - Herb Shriner, Toledo Ohio, host/humorist (Herb Shriner Show)
29th - Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters)
30th - Efren Zimbalist Jr, NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 11 of 11

3rd - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
4th - Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
9th - Guillaume Apollinaire, [Kostrowitsky], Fr poet (Alcools), dies at 38
11th - Victor Adler, Austrian neurologist/foreign minister, dies
11th - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier, last person to be killed in W.W.I. (b. 1892)
13th - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28
15th - Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26
18th - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (55 wickets for South Africa), dies
26th - Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
28th - Alexis Contant, composer, dies at 60
29th - Harald Kidde, Danish writer (Helten), dies at 40