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1918 Calendar

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•  February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  February 21, 1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
•  March 19, 1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
•  August 13, 1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
•  October 12, 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
•  November 1, 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
•  November 3, 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
•  November 9, 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
•  November 13, 1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
•  November 28, 1918 – Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.

•  January 16, 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)
•  March 12, 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
•  March 18, 1918 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
•  March 22, 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanan politician (d. 1997)
•  April 6, 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
•  May 9, 1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek member of the World War II resistance (d. 2011)
•  June 2, 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
•  October 8, 1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate
•  October 9, 1918 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
•  December 10, 1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)