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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1918

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Birthdays

January 1 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
January 2 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
January 10 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
January 15 - João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
January 15 - Édouard Gagnon, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2007)
January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
January 16 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
January 16 - Clem Jones, Lord Mayor of Brisbane
January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)
January 17 - Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
January 18 - Gustave Gingras, French Canadian physician (d. 1996)
January 19 - John H. Johnson, American publisher (d. 2005)
January 21 - Richard D. Winters, American war hero
January 21 - Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
January 22 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
January 23 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist
January 24 - Oral Roberts, American evangelist
January 25 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
January 26 - Nicolae Ceauþescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
January 26 - Philip José Farmer, American writer
January 27 - Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
January 27 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
January 27 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
January 28 - Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
January 28 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
January 29 - John Forsythe, American actor
January 30 - David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
February 1 - Muriel Spark, Scottish author (d. 2006)
February 2 - Hella S. Haasse, Dutch writer
February 3 - Joey Bishop, American entertainer
February 3 - Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994)
February 4 - Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995)
February 4 - Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
February 4 - Janet Waldo, American actress
February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
February 7 - Markey Robinson, Northern Irish painter (d. 1999)
February 8 - Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
February 12 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist
February 13 - Patty Berg, American golfer (d. 2006)
February 15 - Allan Arbus, American actor
February 15 - Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter
February 16 - Patty Andrews, American singer
February 18 - Jane Loevinger, American psychologist (d. 2008).
February 20 - Leonore Annenberg American Billionaire,
February 22 - Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
February 22 - Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996)
February 22 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer
February 22 - Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940)
February 23 - Richard G. Butler, American fascist (d. 2004)
February 25 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (d. 1996)
February 25 - Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (d. 1995)
February 25 - Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
February 26 - Otis Ray Bowen, American politician (Indiana Governor) and physician
February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (d. 1985)
March 1 - Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973)
March 1 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
March 1 - Gladys Noon Spellman, American politician (d. 1988)
March 2 - Peter O'Sullevan, Irish horse racing commentator
March 3 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
March 4 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
March 5 - Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player
March 5 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
March 5 - James Tobin, American economist
March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell, founder and leader of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
March 9 - Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
March 10 - Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot
March 12 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
March 14 - Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
March 15 - Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)
March 15 - Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
March 16 - Frederick Reines, American physicist
March 18 - Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
March 18 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
March 20 - Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984)
March 20 - Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer
March 20 - Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist
March 22 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
March 25 - Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)
March 29 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990)
March 29 - Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992)
April 3 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer
April 4 - George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007)
April 6 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
April 7 - Bobby Doerr, American baseball player
April 8 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States
April 8 - Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992)
April 9 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect
April 10 - Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
April 11 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (d. 2003)
April 16 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
April 16 - Joan Alexander, American actress
April 16 - Dick Gibson, British racing driver
April 17 - William Holden, American actor (d. 1981)
April 18 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
April 18 - Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
April 20 - Edward L. Beach, Jr.
April 20 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist
April 22 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (d. 2008)
April 23 - Maurice Druon, French author
April 25 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
April 25 - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
April 26 - Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
April 27 - Sten Rudholm, Swedish jurist
April 29 - George Allen, American football player and coach (d. 1990)
May 1 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
May 1 - Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
May 3 - Ted Bates, English former footballer (d. 2003)
May 4 - Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d. 1993)
May 4 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004)
May 9 - Mike Wallace, American journalist
May 9 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)
May 9 - Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance
May 10 - George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
May 11 - Richard Feynman, American physicist
May 12 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
May 13 - T. Balasaraswati, Bharatanatyam dancer (d.1984)
May 15 - Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
May 15 - Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor
May 16 - Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (d. 2005)
May 18 - George Welch, American pilot and war hero (d. 1954)
May 18 - Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
May 19 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (d. 2000)
May 20 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist
May 21 - Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
May 23 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
May 25 - Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
May 26 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
May 27 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
May 28 - Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
May 30 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
May 30 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
June 2 - Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
June 3 - Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)
June 3 - Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)
June 6 - Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist
June 8 - Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
June 8 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
June 10 - Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor (d. 2008)
June 12 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001)
June 13 - Ben Johnson, American actor (d. 1996)
June 13 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
June 17 - Ajahn Chah, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1992)
June 18 - Jerome Karle, American chemist
June 18 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist
June 20 - George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
June 20 - Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
June 21 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)
June 21 - James Clyde Mitchell, English sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1995)
July 2 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)
July 3 - S. V. Ranga Rao, South Indian actor (d. 1974)
July 4 - Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002)
July 4 - Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist
July 4 - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga, (d. 2006)
July 4 - Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984)
July 5 - George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005)
July 5 - René Lecavalier, French Canadian radio host and television sportscaster (d. 1999)
July 6 - Sebastian Cabot, English actor (d. 1977)
July 8 - Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000)
July 9 - Jarl Wahlström, the 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
July 13 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver
July 14 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007)
July 14 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright
July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist
July 16 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
July 17 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
July 18 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa
July 20 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
July 23 - Bueno de Mesquita Dutch comedian and actor, (d. 2005)
July 23 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (d. 1999)
July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, American violinist
July 25 - Jane Frank, American artist (d. 1986)
July 26 - Marjorie Lord, American actress
July 27 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
July 29 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
July 31 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist
July 31 - Hank Jones, American pianist
August 3 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (d. 1999)
August 3 - Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
August 4 - Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), American author (d. 1992)
August 5 - Tom Drake, American actor (d. 1982)
August 5 - Betty Oliphant, Canadian ballerina (d. 2004)
August 6 - Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
August 12 - Guy Gibson, British aviator
August 13 - Frederick Sanger, English chemist
August 18 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
August 20 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
August 21 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
August 22 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
August 24 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990)
August 25 - Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
August 27 - Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch Prime Minister (d. 2001)
August 30 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
August 30 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
August 31 - Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986)
September 3 - Helen Wagner, American actress
September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster
September 5 - Luis Alcoriza, Mexican screenwriter
September 8 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist
September 10 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
September 14 - Georges Berger, Belgian racing driver (d. 1967)
September 15 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (d. 2005)
September 17 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
September 18 - John Berger, English politician
September 21 - John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007)
September 22 - Hans Scholl, member of The White Rose (d. 1943)
September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988)
September 24 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
September 27 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer
September 28 - Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
September 30 - Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996)
October 4 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist
October 6 - André Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1993)
October 8 - Ron Randell, film character actor (d.2005)
October 8 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist
October 9 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
October 9 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
October 11 - Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (d. 1998)
October 13 - Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
October 14 - Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)
October 16 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
October 17 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (d. 1987)
October 17 - Ralph Wilson, owner of the Buffalo Bills
October 18 - Bobby Troup, American musician (d. 1999)
October 19 - Charles Evans, British mountaineer
October 20 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
October 21 - Milton Himmelfarb, American sociographer (d. 2006)
October 22 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
October 23 - James Daly, American actor (d. 1978)
October 27 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
October 29 - Bernard Gordon, American writer and producer (d. 2007)
October 31 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist (d. 2007)
November 3 - Bob Feller, baseball player
November 3 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
November 3 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)
November 3 - Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
November 4 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
November 4 - Cameron Mitchell, American actor (d. 1994)
November 7 - Billy Graham, American evangelist
November 7 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
November 7 - Paul Aussaresses, French general
November 8 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
November 9 - Choi Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do (d. 2002)
November 9 - Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
November 9 - Thomas Ferebee, Enola Gay bombardier over Hiroshima (d. 2000)
November 10 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist
November 11 - Stubby Kaye, American comic actor (d. 1997)
November 13 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003)
November 18 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
November 22 - Claiborne Pell, American politician
November 29 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author (d. 2007)
November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
December 3 - Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (d. 2000)
December 8 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004)
December 9 - Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
December 10 - Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
December 10 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident
December 12 - Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
December 14 - James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994)
December 14 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
December 15 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
December 16 - Pierre Delanoë, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006)
December 19 - Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)
December 20 - Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988)
December 20 - Audrey Totter, American actress
December 21 - Donald Regan, American White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
December 21 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian United Nations Secretary-General and Federal President of Austria (d. 2007)
December 23 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
December 23 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
December 23 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
December 25 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt
December 25 - Ahmed Ben Bella, politician
December 26 - George Rallis, Greek politician
December 27 - John Celardo, American comic strip artist

Deaths

January 6 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
January 8 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
January 9 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
January 24 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
January 28 - John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
January 29 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
February 2 - John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
February 10 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan, (b. 1842)
February 10 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist
March 9 - Frank Wedekind, writer
March 13 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
March 20 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
March 27 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
April 13 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist
April 21 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
May 3 - Charlie Soong, Christian Missionary
May 9 - George Coşbuc, Romanian poet (b. 1866)
May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
May 19 - Raoul Lufbery, French-American World War I fighter pilot and flying ace (b. 1885)
May 30 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
June 10 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
June 13 - Tsar Mikhail Alexandrovitch Romanov, (b. 1878)
June 25 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (b. 1867)
June 26 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
July 3 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire, (b. 1844)
July 12 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
July 14 - Quentin Roosevelt, American Aviator
July 17 - Family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, (b. 1868)
July 18 - Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna, (b. 1864)
July 22 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)
July 29 - Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
July 30 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
August 1 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
August 10 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
August 12 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
August 17 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1873)
August 22 - Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
September 12 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
September 25 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
September 28 - Freddie Stowers, American soldier (b. 1896)
October 5 - Roland Garros, French pilot (shot down) (b. 1888)
October 15 - Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian saint (b. circa 1838)
October 19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
October 22 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
October 28 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
October 31 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
November 3 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
November 4 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
November 11 - George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier
December 2 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (b. 1868)
December 11 - Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (b. 1876)
December 28 - Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (b. 1865)

Events

January 5 - The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi party, is founded.
January 8 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
January 12 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
January 19 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
January 24 - The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS)
January 27 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
January 28 - Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
January 31 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
February 1 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
February 3 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
February 5 - Stephen W. Thompson shot down a German airplane. It was the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
February 8 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper publishes for the first time.
February 14 - The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
February 16 - The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
February 21 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
February 23 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
February 24 - Estonian Declaration of Independence.
March 3 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
March 7 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
March 8 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
March 11 - Bolshevist Russia moves the national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.
March 11 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
March 12 - Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
March 19 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
March 21 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins.
March 25 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
March 27 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
March 31 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
April 1 - The Royal Air Force is created by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
April 4 - World War I: Second Battle of the Somme ends.
April 8 - World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
April 9 - World War I: The Battle of the Lys
April 20 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
April 21 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
April 24 - First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
May 2 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
May 11 - The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
May 15 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
May 16 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
May 26 - Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
May 26 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
May 28 - The Democratic Republic of Armenia declares its independence.
May 28 - The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declares its independence
June 1 - World War I Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood
June 6 - World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood
June 10 - The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
June 22 - Hammond circus train wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
June 24 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
June 26 - World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood
July 4 - Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
July 4 - Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
July 9 - 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.
July 12 - The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
July 15 - World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
July 17 - On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
July 17 - The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German submatine U-55; only 5 lives are lost.
July 20 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
July 21 - U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. This is the first time that the United States is shelled since the War of 1812.
August 2 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
August 8 - World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
August 11 - World War I
August 13 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
August 13 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
August 17 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
August 29 - Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
August 30 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, 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.
September 5 - Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
September 26 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.
September 29 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice.
October 1 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
October 3 - King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
October 4 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.
October 8 - World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
October 12 - A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
October 13 - Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
October 26 - Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
October 28 - World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
October 28 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
October 29 - 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.
October 30 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
October 31 - Banat Republic is founded
November 1 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.
November 1 - Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
November 3 - Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
November 3 - Poland declares its independence from Russia.
November 4 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
November 4 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
November 6 - The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
November 7 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
November 7 - Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
November 10 - The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
November 11 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. The war officially stops at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) this is annually honoured with two-minutes of silence.
November 11 - Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence.
November 11 - Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
November 12 - Austria becomes a republic.
November 13 - Allied troops occupy Constantinople the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
November 14 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
November 18 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
November 25 - Vojvodina, former Austro-Hungarian crownland, proclaims its secession from this state to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
November 26 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
November 28 - Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
December 1 - Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania had voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania (see Union of Transylvania with Romania).
December 1 - Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
December 1 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
December 4 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
December 14 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
December 27 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.

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