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1918 Historical Event(s)
February 11, 1918
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
April 8, 1918
– World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City’s financial district.
April 9, 1918
– World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
July 21, 1918
– SMU U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts.
August 17, 1918
– Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
October 26, 1918
– Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
November 1, 1918
– Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
November 14, 1918
– Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
November 26, 1918
– The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Who Were Born On 1918?
January 1, 1918
– Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
January 22, 1918
– Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
January 29, 1918
– John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
March 9, 1918
– Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
April 20, 1918
– Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
June 17, 1918
– Ajahn Chah, Thai meditation master (d. 1992)
August 21, 1918
– Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
August 25, 1918
– Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
September 28, 1918
– Ángel Labruna, Argentinian football player and coach (d. 1983)
December 25, 1918
– Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria