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
- Jun 8 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
- Jul 17 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia
- Sep 26 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
- Oct 1 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks
- Oct 31 Spanish flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week
- Nov 10 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
- Nov 11 WWI Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"
- Dec 4 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France
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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
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Articles About 1918
Spanish Flu
Staff of the American Red Cross remove a Spanish flu victim from a house in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemicMarch 11Execution of the Romanovs
The basement room in Ipatiev House where the Romanov royal family and their staff were executed. The holes in the walls are from investigators searching for bullets.July 17Neil, The Rebel Vanderbilt
Wealth meant that Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, known as Neil, had the world at his feet. But he chose paths that set him adrift from high society and his family.August 24Sgt. Alvin York Kills 25 German Soldiers
Painting of Sergeant Alvin York firing at the German soldiers in FranceOctober 8Strange Meeting for War Poet Owen's Brother
Soldier-poet Wilfred Owen was killed on this day in history – a death that his brother would sense in an extraordinary and inexplicable experience.November 4The War's Over, But Don't Get Too Excited
It was 'the war to end all wars' that came to a weary climax on this day. But this was no time to lose your inhibitions, at least not for one famous Englishman.November 11End of World War I
Famous painting of the signing of the armistice in Compiegne, FranceNovember 11The 1918 Flu Pandemic
A village in Alaska was almost wiped out on this day as the 1918 flu pandemic took its toll. Are there lessons for the world combatting the Coronavirus in 2020?November 15
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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