Notable Historical Events - 1918
1918 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland |
Jan 2 |
Dodgers trade Casey Stengel & Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes & Mamaux |
Jan 2 |
NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down |
Jan 3 |
US employment service opens as a unit of Dept of Labor |
Jan 5 |
British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace |
Jan 8 |
Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) |
Jan 8 |
Pres Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after the Great War |
Jan 12 |
Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4 |
Jan 12 |
Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens. |
Jan 14 |
Finland & USSR adopt New Style (Gregorian) calendar |
Jan 19 |
Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly |
Jan 19 |
Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard. |
Jan 22 |
Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet) |
Jan 25 |
Russia declared a republic of Soviets |
Jan 26 |
Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort |
Jan 27 |
"Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater |
Jan 27 |
The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War. |
Jan 28 |
Strike on Berlin ammunition factory |
Jan 28 |
Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground. |
Jan 31 |
A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. |
Feb 1 |
Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest |
Feb 1 |
Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC |
Feb 1 |
Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) |
Feb 3 |
Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel begins service |
Feb 5 |
1st US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson |
Feb 5 |
Separation of church & state begins in USSR |
Feb 6 |
Britain grants women (30 & over) vote |
Feb 8 |
"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published |
Feb 9 |
Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va |
Feb 9 |
Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris |
Feb 14 |
H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC |
Feb 14 |
USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1) |
Feb 15 |
US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland |
Feb 15 |
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar |
Feb 16 |
Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day) |
Feb 21 |
Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine |
Feb 21 |
The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. |
Feb 22 |
Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia |
Feb 23 |
First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory. |
Feb 24 |
Estonia declares independence from Russia |
Feb 26 |
Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604 |
Mar 2 |
NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Phila A's |
Mar 3 |
Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin |
Mar 3 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign |
Mar 4 |
Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921) |
Mar 6 |
US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle |
Mar 7 |
H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!" premieres in NYC |
Mar 7 |
Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal |
Mar 7 |
World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. |
Mar 8 |
The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. |
Mar 9 |
Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party |
Mar 9 |
Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda |
Mar 9 |
Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens |
Mar 11 |
Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia |
Mar 11 |
Save the Redwoods League founded |
Mar 11 |
First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas. |
Mar 13 |
Trotsky gains control of the Red Army |
Mar 13 |
American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms |
Mar 13 |
1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set |
Mar 14 |
1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF |
Mar 16 |
Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published |
Mar 17 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford |
Mar 17 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
Mar 18 |
Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms |
Mar 18 |
Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam |
Mar 19 |
US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time |
Mar 19 |
S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane |
Mar 21 |
-28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive |
Mar 23 |
Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River |
Mar 23 |
Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed |
Mar 23 |
Lithuania proclaims independence |
Mar 23 |
Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) |
Mar 25 |
The Belarusian People's Republic is established. |
Mar 27 |
Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania. |
Mar 30 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
Mar 31 |
1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect |
Apr 1 |
Henry Miller's Theater opens at 124 W 43rd St NYC |
Apr 1 |
United Kingdom: the Royal Air Force is created from the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps. |
Apr 3 |
US House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler |
Apr 4 |
Battle of Somme ends |
Apr 4 |
Food riot in Amsterdam |
Apr 9 |
Latvia proclaims independence |
Apr 13 |
Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital |
Apr 14 |
Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) |
Apr 15 |
Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents |
Apr 18 |
Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play |
Apr 20 |
Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day. |
Apr 21 |
World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown was credited with the kill. |
Apr 23 |
Battle of Zeebrugge ends |
Apr 23 |
Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea |
Apr 23 |
National Urban League forms |
Apr 27 |
Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped |
Apr 29 |
Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays |
Apr 30 |
Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen |
May 2 |
General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. |
May 4 |
Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4 |
May 10 |
HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor |
May 11 |
44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8 |
May 13 |
1st US airmail stamps issued (24 cents) |
May 14 |
Sunday baseball is made legal in Washton, DC |
May 15 |
1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC) |
May 15 |
1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated |
May 15 |
43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 |
May 15 |
44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4 |
May 15 |
Greeks troops lands at Smyrna |
May 15 |
Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game |
May 15 |
The Finnish Civil War ends. |
May 16 |
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense. |
May 18 |
Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia |
May 18 |
TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale, Pennsylvania, kills 200 |
May 19 |
Wash 1st Sunday game, Senators beat Cleveland 1-0 in 18 innings |
May 20 |
1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico) |
May 21 |
US House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote |
May 23 |
King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens |
May 24 |
Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) |
May 24 |
Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19th inning |
May 26 |
Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia |
May 26 |
Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat. |
May 27 |
Battle of Aisne |
May 28 |
Azerbaijan gains independence and declares itself a Democratic Republic |
Jun 1 |
Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis |
Jun 1 |
White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play |
Jun 1 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden |
Jun 3 |
US Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart rules child labor laws unconstitutional |
Jun 6 |
Battle of Belleau Wood, 1st US victory of WW I |
Jun 8 |
Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered |
Jun 12 |
1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France |
Jun 13 |
Phillies & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings |
Jun 15 |
1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania |
Jun 15 |
50th Belmont: Frank Robinson aboard Johren wins in 2:20.6 |
Jun 22 |
32nd US Womens Tennis: Molla Mallory beats E E Goss (6-4 6-3) |
Jun 22 |
Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois) |
Jun 23 |
Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0 |
Jun 25 |
Baku-Turkish communist party forms |
Jun 26 |
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed |
Jun 28 |
1st flight between Hawaiian Islands |
Jul 3 |
SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament |
Jul 4 |
Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa |
Jul 4 |
Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. |
Jul 8 |
Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple |
Jul 9 |
101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn |
Jul 9 |
Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal |
Jul 10 |
Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms |
Jul 12 |
Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed |
Jul 14 |
Dutch government reclaims South seas |
Jul 15 |
2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I |
Jul 16 |
A Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family |
Jul 17 |
Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings |
Jul 18 |
US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I |
Jul 19 |
German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) |
Jul 19 |
Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt |
Jul 20 |
World War I: German troops cross the Marne. |
Jul 21 |
U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. |
Jul 22 |
Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park |
Jul 25 |
Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif |
Jul 25 |
Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed) |
Jul 26 |
Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed) |
Jul 27 |
Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY |
Aug 1 |
British troops enter Vladivostok |
Aug 1 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings |
Aug 2 |
Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. |
Aug 6 |
Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France during WWI |
Aug 6 |
WWI: 2nd battle of the Marne ends |
Aug 8 |
WWI: The Battle of Amiens begins - Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks, The end of trench warfare |
Aug 8 |
6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more |
Aug 9 |
Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, & suspends him "for indifferent play" |
Aug 12 |
Battle of Amiens ends in WWI, Allieds beat Germans - the last great battle on the Western Front |
Aug 13 |
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. |
Aug 15 |
1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania) |
Aug 15 |
Russia severs diplomatic ties with US |
Aug 16 |
US troops overthrows Archangelsk |
Aug 17 |
British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan |
Aug 17 |
Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 |
Aug 17 |
Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus |
Aug 17 |
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
Aug 19 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" premieres in NYC |
Aug 20 |
Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I |
Aug 24 |
Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
Aug 24 |
Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players |
Aug 26 |
W Smith & F Bacon's "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC |
Aug 27 |
Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army |
Aug 27 |
Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia |
Aug 28 |
Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly |
Aug 29 |
Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive |
Aug 30 |
Czechoslovakia forms independent republic |
Aug 30 |
Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, attempting to assassinate him |
Aug 31 |
Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
Sep 1 |
Baseball season ends due to WW I |
Sep 1 |
Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns |
Sep 1 |
US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920 |
Sep 3 |
38th US Men's Tennis: R L Murray beats William T Tilden (6-3 6-1 7-5) |
Sep 3 |
5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot (or Camp Logan riot); in all 19 mutineers were executed. |
Sep 3 |
Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line |
Sep 4 |
Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier |
Sep 4 |
US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months |
Sep 5 |
Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early |
Sep 5 |
Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia |
Sep 9 |
Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
Sep 10 |
Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers |
Sep 11 |
Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series |
Sep 12 |
During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel |
Sep 13 |
Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42 |
Sep 15 |
CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state |
Sep 18 |
Battle of Megiddo (Palestine) starts |
Sep 20 |
Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague |
Sep 26 |
Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of WW I |
Sep 26 |
World War I: Battle of Meuse. |
Sep 29 |
Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line |
Oct 1 |
World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus. |
Oct 3 |
Boris becomes king of Bulgaria |
Oct 3 |
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates the throne in favour of his eldest son Tsar Boris III |
Oct 3 |
Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC |
Oct 4 |
Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC |
Oct 6 |
US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die |
Oct 8 |
American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans |
Oct 10 |
Baden's Geisz forms government |
Oct 11 |
Major Tsumani shakes Caribbean |
Oct 12 |
Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people |
Oct 15 |
British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6 |
Oct 17 |
De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens |
Oct 17 |
Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic |
Oct 18 |
Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Oct 18 |
NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn |
Oct 18 |
Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) |
Oct 20 |
In order to secure an armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions |
Oct 21 |
Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min |
Oct 25 |
Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die |
Oct 26 |
Soldier revolt at Harskamp Veluwe |
Oct 28 |
Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up |
Oct 30 |
Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state |
Oct 31 |
Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week |
Oct 31 |
Short-lived Banat Republic founded in territory where Romania, Hungary and Serbia meet |
Nov 1 |
102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn |
Nov 1 |
Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians |
Nov 3 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves |
Nov 3 |
Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I |
Nov 4 |
Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors |
Nov 6 |
Republic of Poland proclaimed |
Nov 6 |
Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns |
Nov 7 |
Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets |
Nov 7 |
United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed |
Nov 7 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff" premieres in Petrograd |
Nov 7 |
The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. |
Nov 7 |
Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria. |
Nov 8 |
Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs |
Nov 9 |
Bavaria proclaims itself a republic |
Nov 9 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I |
Nov 9 |
Republic Germany proclaimed |
Nov 10 |
German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands |
Nov 10 |
Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Pilsudski |
Nov 10 |
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. |
Nov 11 |
Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution |
Nov 11 |
Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates |
Nov 11 |
Poland declares independence |
Nov 11 |
Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am |
Nov 12 |
Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic |
Nov 13 |
Prince Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicates |
Nov 13 |
Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
Nov 13 |
Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg |
Nov 14 |
Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president |
Nov 16 |
Hungarian People's Republic declared |
Nov 17 |
Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH |
Nov 18 |
Brussels free Stofnar |
Nov 18 |
Latvia declares independence from Russia |
Nov 21 |
2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die |
Nov 21 |
Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland |
Nov 21 |
The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth. |
Nov 22 |
Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns |
Nov 22 |
King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels |
Nov 22 |
Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland |
Nov 22 |
Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) |
Nov 24 |
Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party |
Nov 26 |
The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
Nov 28 |
Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany abdicates |
Nov 28 |
Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania. |
Nov 29 |
Serbia annexes Montenegro |
Dec 1 |
Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown |
Dec 1 |
Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade |
Dec 1 |
Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established |
Dec 4 |
Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office |
Dec 5 |
Oil refinery on Curacao opens |
Dec 9 |
French troops occupies Mainz |
Dec 10 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
Dec 13 |
US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany |
Dec 13 |
Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France) |
Dec 14 |
Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in NYC |
Dec 15 |
American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
Dec 16 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds |
Dec 19 |
Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe) |
Dec 20 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees" premieres in NYC |
Dec 21 |
Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000 |
Dec 26 |
1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW) |
Dec 27 |
The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. |
Dec 30 |
John E Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover |
Dec 31 |
Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager |
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