1918 in the United States
List of events article
Events from the year 1918 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
1918 flu pandemic
October 4 – The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
October 8 – World War I : In the Forest of Argonne in France , U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
October 11 – The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributed to the damage and loss of life.
October 12 – 1918 Cloquet Fire : The city of Cloquet, Minnesota and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.
October 25 – The SS Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska ; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest .
November 1 – Malbone Street Wreck : The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn , New York City, with at least 93 dead.
November 2 – Thomas Kilby is elected the 36th governor of Alabama defeating Dallas B. Smith .
November 11 – World War I ends.
December 4 – President of the U.S. Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris Peace Conference , becoming the first U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office.
December 19 – Ripley's Believe It or Not! Champs and Chumps in The New York Globe
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Gertrude B. Elion John Forsythe January 1 – Ed Price , American soldier, pilot, and politician (d. 2012 )January 9 – Alma Ziegler , professional baseball player (d. 2005 )January 15 – Ira B. Harkey Jr. , newspaper editor (d. 2006 )January 16 – Stirling Silliphant , screenwriter and producer (d. 1996 )[ 3] January 17 – George M. Leader , politician (d. 2013 )January 19
January 20 – Nevin S. Scrimshaw , food scientist (d. 2013 )January 21 – Richard Winters , World War II soldier (d. 2011 )[ 4] January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion , pharmacologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 (d. 1999 )[ 5] January 24 – Oral Roberts , neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. 2009 )January 25 – Ernie Harwell , baseball sportscaster (d. 2010 )January 26
January 27 – Elmore James , musician (d. 1963 )January 29 – John Forsythe , actor (Dynasty ) (d. 2010 )January 31 – Millie Dunn Veasey , African-American civil rights activist and World War II soldier (d. 2018 )
February
Joey Bishop Julian Schwinger Fay McKenzie
March
Howard Cosell Pearl Bailey March 1 – James N. Morgan , economist (d. 2018 )March 3 – Arthur Kornberg , biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2007 )March 4 – Margaret Osborne duPont , American female tennis player (d. 2012 )March 5 – James Tobin , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002 )March 8 – Mendel L. Peterson , American underwater archaeologist (d. 2003 )March 9
March 11 – Jack Coe , American evangelist (d. 1956 )March 12 – Elaine de Kooning , American artist (d. 1989 )March 13 – Eddie Pellagrini , American baseball player, coach (d. 2006 )March 15 – Richard Ellmann , American literary biographer (d. 1987 )March 16 – Frederick Reines , American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 (d. 1998 )[ 6] March 17 – Ross Bass , American politician (d. 1993 )March 18 – Bob Broeg , American sports writer (d. 2005 )March 20 – Jack Barry , American television game show host, producer (d. 1984 )March 23
March 25 – Howard Cosell , American attorney, lecturer, and sports journalist (d. 1995 )March 26 – Lloyd McCuiston , American politicianMarch 28 – Alberto Valdés , American artist (d. 1998)March 29
April
Betty Ford William Holden April 1 – Milt Earnhart , American politician (d. 2020 )April 4 – Joseph Ashbrook , American astronomer (d. 1980 )April 7 – Bobby Doerr , American baseball player (d. 2017 )April 8
April 14 – Mary Healy , American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. 2015 )[ 9] April 15
April 17
April 18 – Clifton Hillegass , author, founder of CliffsNotes 2001 )April 20 – Edward L. Beach Jr. , naval captain and author (d. 2002 )April 22
April 24 – Lou Dorfsman , graphic designer (d. 2008 )April 27 – John Rice , baseball umpire (d. 2011 )April 28
April 29 – George Allen , American football coach (d. 1990 )
May
Mike Wallace Richard Feynman Eddy Arnold May 1 – Jack Paar , American television show host (The Tonight Show ) (d. 2004 )[ 10] May 3 – Richard Dudman , American reporter, editorial writer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch ) (d. 2017 )May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12 – Julius Rosenberg , American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953 )May 15 – Eddy Arnold , country singer (d. 2008 )May 17 – A. C. Lyles , film producer (d. 2013 )May 18
May 20 – Edward B. Lewis , geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004 )May 21 – Lloyd Hartman Elliott , educator, president of George Washington University (d. 2013 )May 23
June
Robert Preston Jerome Karle June 2 – Kathryn Tucker Windham , writer, storyteller (d. 2011 )June 4 – Johnny Klein , drummer (d. 1997 )June 6 – Edwin G. Krebs , biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 (d. 2009 )June 8
June 9 – John Hospers , philosopher (d. 2011 )June 10 – Wood Moy , actor (d. 2017 )June 12
June 13 – Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut , Theme park creator and entrepreneur (d. 2011 )June 18
June 21
June 25 – Sid Tepper , songwriter (d. 2015 )June 26 – Raleigh Rhodes , combat fighter pilot (d. 2007 )June 27 – Adolph Kiefer , Olympic champion swimmer (d. 2017 )[ 16] June 28 – Marshall Brown , professional basketball player (d. 2008 )June 29
July
Craig Stevens Pee Wee Reese Paul D. Boyer Hank Jones July 1 – Ralph Young , American singer, actor (d. 2008 )July 3
July 4
July 5 – George Rochberg , American composer (d. 2005 )July 6
July 7 – Bob Vanatta , American head basketball coach (d. 2016 )July 8
July 10
July 12
July 14
July 16 – Leonard T. Schroeder , colonel (d. 2009 )July 17 – Chandler Robbins , ornithologist (d. 2017 )July 18
July 20
July 22 – Stanley Lebergott , government economist (d. 2009 )July 23
July 24 – Irving London , hematologist and geneticist (d. 2018 )July 25 – Jane Frank , artist (d. 1986 )July 26 – Marjorie Lord , actress (d. 2015 )July 27 – Leonard Rose , cellist (d. 1984 )July 29 – Edwin O'Connor , novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (d. 1968 )July 30
July 31
August
Leonard Bernstein Katherine Johnson August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb , American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999 )August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie , American historian (d. 2015 )August 9 – Robert Aldrich , American writer and filmmaker (d. 1983 )August 12 – Roy C. Bennett , American songwriter (d. 2015 )August 13 – Tao Porchon-Lynch , American yoga master and author (d. 2020 )August 19 – Oliver Brown , African-American plaintiff (d. 1961 )August 20 – Jacqueline Susann , American novelist (d. 1974 )August 21 – Bruria Kaufman , American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010 in Israel )August 22 – Martin Pope , American physical chemistAugust 23 – Bernard Fisher , American surgeon (d. 2019)August 25 – Leonard Bernstein , American composer and conductor (d. 1990 )August 26
August 27 – Simeon Booker , American journalist (d. 2017 )August 30 – Ted Williams , American baseball player (d. 2002 )August 31
September
Paul Harvey
October
Rita Hayworth October 4 – Adrian Kantrowitz , American cardiac surgeon (d. 2008 )October 9 – E. Howard Hunt , American Watergate break-in coordinator (d. 2007 )October 13 – Robert Walker , American actor (d. 1951 )October 17 – Rita Hayworth , American actress (d. 1987 )October 18 – Bobby Troup , American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in Emergency! 1999 )October 19 – Robert S. Strauss , American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. 2014 )October 22 – Fred Caligiuri , American baseball player (d. 2018 )October 23
October 25 – Milton Selzer , American actor (d. 2006 )October 27 – Teresa Wright , American actress (d. 2005 )October 29 – Diana Serra Cary , born Peggy-Jean Montgomery ("Baby Peggy"), American silent film child actress (d. 2020 )October 31 – Ian Stevenson , American parapsychologist (d. 2007 )
November
Art Carney Billy Graham Spiro Agnew November 3
November 4
November 7
November 8 – Bob Schiller , American screenwriter (d. 2017 )November 9
November 10 – John Henry Moss , American baseball executive, politician (d. 2009 )November 11 – Louise Tobin , American singer (d. 2022 )November 21 – Dorothy Maguire , American professional baseball player (d. 1981 )November 28 – Jack H. Harris , American film producer, distributor and actor (d. 2017 )November 29 – Madeleine L'Engle , children's fiction writer (d. 2007 )November 30 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. , American actor (d. 2014 )
December
Jeff Chandler December 6 – Nick Drahos , American football player (d. 2018 )December 10 – Anne Gwynne , American actress (d. 2003 )December 11 – John W. Reed , American legal scholar (d. 2018 )December 12 – Joe Williams , American jazz singer (d. 1999 )December 14 – Jack Cole , American cartoonist (d. 1958 )December 15 – Jeff Chandler , American actor (d. 1961 )December 17 – Dusty Anderson , American actress and model (d. 2007 )December 18 – Hal Kanter , American comedy writer, producer and director (d. 2011 )December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan , poet and author (d. 1990 in the United States1990 )December 21
December 24 – Dave Bartholomew , American musician, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019 )December 25
December 26 – Butch Ballard , American jazz drummer (d. 2011 )December 29 – Leo J. Dulacki , American general (d. 2019 )December 31
Undated
Deaths
January 8 – Ellis H. Roberts , politician (born 1827 )
February 2 – John L. Sullivan , boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (born 1858 )
February 4 – Jeannette Walworth , American journalist and novelist (born 1835 )[ 20]
February 7 – Effie Hoffman Rogers , educator, editor and journalist (born 1835 /37 )
February 9 – E. J. Richmond , litterateur and author (born 1825 )<ref">"Obituary, Mrs. E. J. Richmond. Died in Mount Upton, New York, 9 Feb 1918" . Press and Sun-Bulletin . 14 February 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 6 January 2023 .public domain .</ref>February 15 – Vernon Castle , ballroom dancer (born 1887 )
March 10 – Jim McCormick , baseball pitcher (born 1856 in Scotland )
March 14 – Lucretia Garfield , First Lady of the United States (born 1832 )
March 16 – Prosper P. Parker , civil engineer, Union Army officer and politician (born 1835 in Canada )
March 27 – Henry Adams , historian (born 1838 )April 14 – James E. Ware , architect who devised the "dumbbell plan" for New York City tenements (born 1846 )
May 1 – Grove Karl Gilbert , geologist (born 1843 )
May 5 – Bertha Palmer , businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (born 1849 )
May 14 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , newspaper publisher (born 1841 )
May 17 – William Drew Robeson , African American Presbyterian minister, escaped slave and father of Paul Robeson (born 1844 )
May 19 – Raoul Lufbery , fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1885 in France )
May 27 – Frederick Trump , German American businessman, paternal grandfather of Donald Trump (born 1869 )
June 4 – Charles W. Fairbanks , 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 (born 1852 )
June 18 – Lizzie Halliday , serial killer (born c.1859)
June 25 – Jake Beckley , baseball player (born 1867 )
June 27 – George Mary Searle , astronomer (born 1839 )
June 28 – Albert Henry Munsell , inventor of the Munsell color system (born 1858 )
July 20 – Francis Lupo , U.S. Army soldier (killed in action; born 1895 )
July 22 – Roy Earl Parrish , American politician (killed in action; born 1888 )
July 27 – Gustav Kobbé , music critic and author (sailing accident; born 1857 )
July 30 – Joyce Kilmer , poet (killed in action; born 1886 )
August 1 – John Riley Banister , policeman and cowboy (born 1854 )
August 10 – William Pitt Kellogg , U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1872 and from 1877 to 1883 (born 1830 )
August 12 – Anna Held , singer (born 1872 in Poland)
August 14 – Anna Morton , Second Lady of the United States (born 1846 )
August 24 – Louis Bennett Jr. , World War I flying ace (killed in action) (b. 1894 )
September 12 – Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1885 to 1897 and from 1901 to 1907 (born 1838 )
September 28
September 29 – Frank Luke , fighter pilot (killed in action; born 1897 )October 8 – James B. McCreary , 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879 and from 1911 to 1915, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1903 to 1909 (born 1838 )
October 16 – Felix Arndt , pianist and composer (born 1889 )
October 19 – Harold Lockwood , silent film actor (born 1887 )
October 21
October 22 – Myrtle Gonzalez , silent film actress (born 1891 )
October 28 – Edward Bouchet , physicist (born 1852 )
November 4 – Andrew Dickson White , diplomat, academic and author (born 1832 )
November 19 – Joseph F. Smith , Mormon leader (born 1838 )
December – Sarah Jim Mayo , Washoe basket weaver (born 1858 )
December 17 – John Green Brady , 5th Governor of the District of Alaska from 1897 to 1906 (born 1847 )
December 26 – William Hampton Patton , entomologist (born 1853 )
See also
References
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