1918 was the common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see hyperlink for even calendar) or the common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events
January-February
January 8 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. January 22 - Manitoba, Canada film censor board bans comedies January 24 - a edict of the Council of People's Commissars, introducing the Gregorian calendar in Russia since February 1 (Julian calendar date), issued January 28 - Vladimir Lenin decrees the establishment of the Red Army. February 3 - The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the yearn streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet yearn). February 8 - The Stars and Stripes newspaper February 14 - The Soviet Union adopts a Gregorian calendar (One February based on data from the Julian calendar). Following a day of remembrance of the Russian Revolution, previously October, okay, lessens within November. February 16 - Lithuania declares its independence from two Russia & Germany February 18 - White Cossack troops retreat from a Don after advancing Bolsheviks February 24 - Estonia declares its independence from Russia February 26 - Grandstands at the Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse - 604 dead

March-April
March 1 - German submarine U 19 sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island, Nothern Ireland. March 3 - World War I: Germany, Austria and Bolshevist Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war. March 5 - The Soviet Russia moves its national capital from either Petrograd to Moscow March 6 - Finnish Air Force founded. A blue hakenkreuz is adopted when its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer & flier Eric von Rosen who donated the number one plane. Von Rosen experienced painted a Buddhist symbol on the plane when his household lucky insignia. March 7 - World War We: Finland forms an alliance with Germany. March 12 – Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia March 19 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST went into effect on March 31). March 21 - World War I personally: Second Battle of the Somme begins March 23 - a jumbo German cannon, the and then known as Paris Gun begins to shell Paris from either 114 kilometre (75 miles) away March 23 - In London at a Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies when you took his trick in which he was supposed to "catch" deuce separate bullets – one of the children perforates his lung. He dies a below morning around hospital. March 23 - The Social Revolutionary Party declares Belorussia independent; Bolshevik armies soon crush them March 25 - for the first instance Belarus declares independence. April 1 - The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service are merged to form the Royal Air Force.

May-July
May 1 - German troops enter Don province - they choose Rostov May 6 May 2 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. May 15 - a Post Professional Department (late renamed the USPS) begins the number 1 regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC). May 16 - The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by US Congress. May 26 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. May 28 - Armenia gains independence from either a Ottoman Empire June 1 - World War We: Battle for Belleau Wood begins. July - The Siberian Expedition is launched to extract a Czechoslovak Legion from either the Russian civil war. July 4 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed V (Resad) (1909-1918) to Mehmed VI (Vahdettin) (1918-1922) July 9 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train run into an outward express killing 101. July 15 - World War I personally: Second Battle of the Marne - a battle begins touching the River Marne with a German attack. July 16 - Russian Revolution: At Ekaterinburg, Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.

August-October
August - "Spanish Flu" Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-5 million population die in a ensuing sise months (threefold when numerous when died when you took the war). August 1 - British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Archangel, Russia. August 10 commander is told to help White Russians August 1 - Emma Susan Daugherty Banister becomes a 1st female sheriff in the United States below the dying of her hubby, John Riley Banister. August 8 - World War I personally: Battle of Amiens - Canadian troops, backed by Australians, begin the string of most continuous triumph using the erupt the German battlefront. German General Erich Ludendorff will later call for this a "black day of the German army." August 30 - Strike of 20,000 London policemen with demands of increased wage & union recognition. August 30 - Fanya Kaplan tries to shoot Lenin. Petrograd head of Cheka is assassinated the equivalent day. September 11 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship. (their survive Globe Series win until 2004) September 28 - Don Voisko adopts a constitution including declaration of independence. Collapse of Imperial Germany makes it void October 3 - Kaiser makes Max von Baden a German chancellor. October 3 - Poland declares independence. October 8 - World War We - In the Argonne Forest in France, US Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. October 25 - The Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska, 353 people die in the greatest nautical disaster in the Pacific Northwest. October 28 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary. October 28 - New Polish government inside American Galicia (Central Europe)

November
November 1 - Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in globe history occurs under a intersection of Malbone Street & Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, by owning at least 93 dead. November 1 - Ruthenia in eastern Czechoslovakia declares brief independence November 3 - World War I personally: Austria-Hungary enters an truce sustaining a Allies. November 3 - Poland declares its independence from Russia. November 4 - Mutiny in the German fleet at Kiel begin the German Revolution November 6 - A fresh Polish government is proclaimed inside Lublin. November 8 - German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to sleep in exile in the Netherlands. November 9 - Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be the republic. November 11 - World War I personally ceases: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies inside a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. November 11 - Poland's Jozef Pilsudski is offered the position of head of state by all existent governments. Independence Day. November 11 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates. November 12 - Austria becomes a republic. November 14 - Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. November 14 - Jozef Pilsudski becomes the head of state to Poland November 16 - Hungary declares independence from Austria November 16 - Hungarian People's Republic declared November 18 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia. November 22 - Spartacist League founds German Communist Party November 22 - Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war November 26 - the Podgorica Assembly voted for "union of the people", declaring a connexion into the Kingdom of Serbia

December
December 1 - Iceland becomes a self-sovereign kingdom, however remains united by having Denmark. December 1 - New ballot laws around Sweden. Votes there are no yearn contingent on nonexempt plus. 1 human, of these vote. December 1 - Proclamation of Union of Alba Iulia. As a consequence a March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with Romania. December 1 - a Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (late called the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. December 4 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Paris_Peace_Conference, becoming the number one The states president to travel to Europe while in professional. December 27 - Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles within Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań rise against the Germans. December 28 - Constance Markiewicz becomes the foremost woman elected to the House of Commons.

Unknown dates
Finnish Civil War between a Reds & the Whites, January - April. Habsburg Empire ceases to survive. Grand Duchy of Baden ceases to exist. British occupy Palestine Katla erupts in Iceland. Native American Church is founded. Ernest Ansermet founds the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. John Riley Banister becomes sherrif of Coleman County, Texas. Clifton Hillegass, American creator born (d. 2001)

Births
January-February
January 15 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970) January 16 - Stirling Silliphant, writer and producer (d. 1996) January 19 - John H. Johnson, American Publisher, (d. 2005) January 20 - Esquivel, musician (d. 2002) January 25 - Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster January 26 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989) January 26 - Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer January 27 - Skitch Henderson, American musician & band leader January 29 - John Forsythe, American actor February 1 - Dame Muriel Spark, Scottish author February 3 - Helen Stephens, American runner (d. 1994) February 6 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author February 8 - Fred Blassie, American broker grappler (d. 2003) February 12 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) February 17 - William Bronk, American poet (d. 1999) February 22 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, American, a tallest recorded human inside history (d. 1940) February 25 - Barney Ewell, American jock (d. 1996) Bobby Riggs, American tennis streaming video player (d. 1995) February 26 - Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (d. 1985)

March-April

March 1 - Roger Delgado, British actor (d. 1973)''''' March 1 - João Goulart, President of Brazil (d. 1976) March 3 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000) March 5 - James Tobin, American economic expert (d. 2002) March 9 - George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi leader (d. 1967) March 9 - Mickey Spillane, American mystery writer March 10 - Heywood Hale Broun, American sports journalist & commentator (d. 2001) March 11 - Jack Coe, American evangelist (d. 1956) March 12 - Elaine de Kooning, American creative person (d. 1989) March 16 - Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) March 17 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) March 18 - Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (d. 1968) March 25 - Howard Cosell, American lawyer, lecturer, & sports journalist (d. 1995) March 29 - Pearl Bailey, American singer & actress (d. 1990) April 9 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect April 16 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002) April 20 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate April 22 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player April 26 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)

May-August
May 1 - Jack Paar, American television program carrier (d. 2004) May 9 - Mike Wallace, American journalist May 9 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003) May 11 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) May 12 - Julius Rosenberg, American-born Soviet spy (d. 1953) May 15 - Eddy Arnold, American singer May 16 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (d. 2000) May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano June 18 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) July 4 - Ann Landers, American advice editorialist (d. 2002) July 4 - Abigail Van Buren, American advice editorialist & twin sister to Ann Landers July 5 - George Rochberg, American composer (d. 2005) July 13 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955) July 14 - Ingmar Bergman Swedish film director July 15 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) July 17 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003) July 18 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, Italian-born violinist July 27 - Leonard Rose, American violoncellist (d. 1984) July 31 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate August 3 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Professional official (d. 1999) August 8 - Brian Stonehouse, English painter and Globe War II spy (d. 1998) August 13 - Frederick Sanger, English biochemist August 25 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer & conductor (d. 1990) August 30 - Ted Williams, American baseball streaming video player (d. 2002)

September-December
September 4 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (d. 1988) September 27 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1984) October 8 - Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate October 19 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990) October 31 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist & founder of scientific reincarnation-research November 3 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from either Louisiana (d. 2003) November 4 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003) November 13 - Jack Elam, American actor (d. 2003) December 8 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate December 12 - Joe Williams, American jazz singer (d. 1999) December 15 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961) December 21 - Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (d. 2003) December 21 - Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria December 23 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001) December 25 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1981)

Deaths
January 6 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845) January 9 - Émile Reynaud, French science teacher and maker of the number one alive films (b. 1844) January 28 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier & poet (b. 1872) February 6 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862) February 10 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833) March 13 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (b. 1835) March 25 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862) March 27 - Henry Adams, American historiographer (b. 1838) April 20 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German phyicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850) April 21 - Manfred von Richthofen, "Red Baron", German World War I personally pilot (b, 1892) May 14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) May 19 - Raoul Lufbery, American Globe War I personally pilot (b. 1885) June 10 - Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (b. 1842) July 3 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1844) July 17 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (b. 1868) and his personal (executed) August 1 - John Riley Banister, law officer, cowboy, & Texas Ranger (b. 1854) August 18 - Henry Norwest, Canadian Globe War We sniper (b. 1884) September 12 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845) September 28 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858) October 22 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American stage & screen actress (b. 1891) November 4 - Wilfred Owen, English poet (killed within action) (b. 1893) November 9 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880) November 19 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)

Nobel Prizes
Physics - Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck Chemistry - Fritz Haber Medicine - not awarded Literature - not awarded Peace - not awarded

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