1918 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1918?
- January 17, 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 25, 1918 – The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- May 28, 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
- June 6, 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day’s casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
- June 24, 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- July 4, 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- July 9, 1918 – Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
- August 2, 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
- August 13, 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- August 30, 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- October 8, 1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- October 12, 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
- October 29, 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
- October 30, 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- November 9, 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
- November 11, 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
- November 18, 1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
- November 21, 1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
- December 12, 1918 – Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
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