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Old 12-15-18, 12:20 PM   #3436
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December 15 1918


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Jeff Chandler, American actor, best known for his Oscar-nominated role of Cochise in Broken Arrow, as well as roles in Sword in the Desert and Female on the Beach, in New York City (died 1961).

Chihiro Iwasaki, Japanese artist, noted illustrator for children's literature including Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, in Takefu, Fukui, Japan (died 1974).
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16th December 1918

Eastern Front

Announced that British squadron in Gulf of Finland had bombarded Bolshevik position at Wesenberg (Estonia), but that the Bolsheviks continue to advance near Pskov.

Bolshevik reverse north of Ekaterinburg (Urals).

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Marshal Mackensen and his force surrender to the Hungarians near Budapest.

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Imperial Conference of Workers' and Soldiers' Council opens at Berlin.

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Nils (Norway) The cargo ship struck a submerged wreck at New York, United States and was beached.
Tacoma (United States) Out of service and anchored with no one on board in the harbor at Metlakatla in Southeast Alaska, the 11-ton, 35.7-foot (10.9 m) fishing vessel broke loose from her anchorage during a gale and drifted onto a reef in the harbor, where waves battered her to pieces.
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Old 12-16-18, 12:02 PM   #3438
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December 16 1918


The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic is founded by a Soviet provisional government headed by Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas.

Joăo do Canto e Castro is elected as the fifth President of Portugal, replacing Sidónio Pais who was assassinated two days earlier.

The Communist Party of Poland is founded.

The American women's suffrage group Silent Sentinels starts burning copies of President Woodrow Wilson's statement supporting a constitutional amendment to extend the right to vote for women in front of the White House following the amendment's failure to pass in the U.S. Senate.

The Renaissance Cleveland Hotel opens in Cleveland. The 1,000-room facility cost $4.5 million.

The Armenian sports and scouting organization Homenetmen is established in Constantinople by Armenian athletes Shavarsh Krissian, Hovhannes Hintliyan, and Krikor Hagopian.

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Edward William Cole, Australian publisher, founder of Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne and Cole's Funny Picture Book (born 1832).
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Old 12-17-18, 03:50 PM   #3439
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17th December 1918

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Complete evacuation of Finland by German troops announced.

Kiev occupied by Ukrainian revolutionary forces.

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Margaret Ann (United Kingdom) The schooner was abandoned in the Irish Sea off the Crow Rock.
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Old 12-17-18, 09:44 PM   #3440
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December 17 1918

The Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic is formed with Pēteris Stučka as leader.

Georgian forces retreat by train out of Borchaly Uyezd, Georgia.

Roughly 1,000 disaffected workers march on the government house in Darwin, Australia, demanding the resignation of John A. Gilruth, Administrator of the Northern Territory, over a tax on alcohol. Gilruth refuses and further unrest forces the Australian government to send an Australian Navy ship to the city to provide further control. Public pressure eventually forces Gilruth to leave the city in February.

German filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch releases his version of Carmen, based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée and more popularly known for the opera by Georges Bizet, with Polish actress Pola Negri playing the title role.

The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra delivers the first performance of Symphony No. 2 by Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja, with Robert Kajanus conducting.

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Helen Derr, American journalist, long-time reporter and editor of The Town Talk in Alexandria, Louisiana, in Clarks, Nebraska (died 2011).

Died Today: John Green Brady, American politician, 5th Governor of the District of Alaska (born 1847)
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Old 12-18-18, 01:33 PM   #3441
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18th December 1918

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Announced that Bolsheviks have entered Walk (Livonia) after its evacuation by Germans.

Dorpat (Estonia) evacuated by Germans.

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Conference at Berlin decides on form of provisional government of Germany, pending meeting of National Assembly.
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Old 12-18-18, 07:42 PM   #3442
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December 18 1918


French troops occupy Odessa on the Black Sea in order to get supplies to Ukrainians opposing the Bolshevik government.

Adolf Hitler returns to his regiment in Munich. He had been temporarily blinded in a British gas attack.

Latvian Riflemen allied with the Red Army captured Valga, Estonia, in the Estonian War for Independence.

A Georgian unit defending the retreating flank at Ayrum, Georgia is encircled by Armenian forces but manages to break out and escape. Meanwhile, the Armenians began to assault the Georgian-held town of Sadakhlo.

The first meeting of the Workers Defense Union, lead by labor activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, is held in New York City with delegates from 163 trade unions, political groups, and social service organizations.

Armenpress, the main news agency for Armenia, is established.

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Hanna Weynerowska, a Polish-American painter who will go by the name of Kali, member of the Surrealism movement, member of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, in Warsaw (died 1998).

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Frank Thornton, English actor, understudy to actor George Grossmith for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, known for his comedic lead roles in The Private Secretary and Charley's Aunt (born 1845).
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19th December 1918

Western Front

Sir Douglas Haig and five generals commanding British armies on Western Front visit London and are entertained by the King.

Left to Right: Sir William Birdwood, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Sir Hubert Plumer, H.M. The King, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Henry Horne, Sir Julian Byng.


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Sir E. Geddes appointed co-ordinator of demobilisation of British army.

Publication of statement of Lord Milner regarding British policy in Russia.
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December 19 1918


Armenian forces captured Shulaveri, Georgia.

The Deutschnationale Volkspartei (German National People's Party, or DNVP) is established, with Oskar Hergt as party leader.

Ripley's Believe It or Not! makes its firs appearance as a cartoon in The New York Globe with the title Champs and Chumps in The New York Globe.

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Henry Roeland Byrd, American jazz musician known by the professional name 'Professor Longhair'. Known his jazz piano recordings including Crawfish Fiesta and New Orleans Piano, in Bogalusa, Louisiana (died 1980).
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20th December 1918

Eastern Front

French troops land at Odessa.

Political, etc.

Conference at Berlin passes resolution in favour of socialisation of industry, and fixes 19 January as date of elections for National Assembly. Independent Socialists refuse to co-operate in Provisional Government.
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December 20 1918


Montenegrin nationalists known as the Greens, lead by Krsto Popović and Jovan Plamenac begin a rebellion against the Podgorica Assembly of Yugoslavia in response to what they perceive to be a forced merging with Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia.

Armenian forces launch a full attack on Sadakhlo but are repulsed at a heavy cost for the defenders.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to Czechoslovakia after years in exile in the United States to formally accept the position as the first president of the new nation.

The name 'Canadian National Railways' is approved for use to refer to the collection of railway companies comprising Canada's national rail system.

The Kalev Infantry Battalion is formed in Tallinn to fight during the Estonian War of Independence.

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Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet and fantasy writer, known for such works including the anthology Nine Horrors and a Dream and Sixty Selected Poems, in Bridgeport, Connecticut (died 1990).

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Ali bin Hamud of Zanzibar, Omani noble, 8th Sultan of Zanzibar (born 1884).

Silk O'Loughlin, American baseball umpire, officiated five of the eleven World Series from 1906 to 1917 (born 1872).
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21st December 1918

Eastern Front

The anti-Bolshevik Siberian Army under command of Anatoly Pepelyayev captured Kungur, Russia as part of the Perm Operation on the Northwest Front.

A German soldier and his child on horseback at a parade for returning soldiers in Berlin.


American soldiers of the 141st Anti-Aircraft Battalion board ships at St. Nazaire, France to head back home.
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December 21, 1918


Armenian forces capture Sadakhlo, forcing Varden Tsulukidze to step down as commander of the Georgian forces in Borchaly Uyezd, Georgia. He will be and replaced by Abel Makashvili. The same day, a Georgian force lead by Valiko Jugheli captures Katharinenfeld, retaking guns and equipment lost in earlier attacks.

The National Library of Estonia is established.

The Scouts Battalion is established in Viljandi, Estonia to combat the Red Army.

The rail line food service Norsk Spisevognselskap is founded in Oslo to provide rail car restaurant service for the Norwegian Trunk Railway.

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Donald Regan, American public servant, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th White House Chief of Staff, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (died 2003).

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian state leader, 9th President of Austria and fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations, in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria (died 2007).

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Prince Konrad, Austrian state leader, 20th Minister-President of Austria (born 1863).

Walter Hines Page, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1913 to 1918 (born 1855).

Hobey Baker, American football and hockey player, quarterback for the Princeton Tigers football team and right wing for the Princeton Tigers men's ice hockey team from 1906 to 1916, recipient of the Croix de Guerre for action with the 13th Aero Squadron in World War One, is killed in a plane crash (born 1892).
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22nd December 1918

General Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Force, reviewing occupation troops at Montabaur, Germany.


Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia, returns to Prague after being in exile since the start of the war. Masaryk accompanied by the Czechoslovakian Legion.
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December 22, 1918

Krsto Popović, a leader of the Serbian Zelenaši, or Green Party, writes a series of requests to be delivered to the Podgorica Assembly including the termination of many of its resolutions in support of Yugoslavia. The main purpose of the Zelenaši is to prevent Montenegro being absorbed into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The silent war film The Heart of Humanity is released through Universal Pictures, with Erich von Stroheim as a villainous German army officer.

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Charles Edward Perugini, Italian-British painter, known for works which include A Girl Reading and A Summer Shower (born 1839).
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