What Happened in 1918

Major Events

  • Mar 9 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
  • Mar 12 Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
  • Apr 21 World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill

1918 in Film & TV

  • Aug 15 Longest work of animation then produced - "The Sinking of Lusitania" by Winsor McCay

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Fun Fact About 1918

Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min

October 21, 1918


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Famous Weddings in 1918

  • Mar 19 American jazz musician Louis Armstrong (17) weds Daisy Parker (21); divorce in 1923
  • Apr 12 American Playwright Eugene O'Neill marries second wife novelist Agnes Boulton
  • Jul 2 American jazz orchestra bandleader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson in Washington, D.C.

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