1918 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1918?
- January 9, 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- January 28, 1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
- February 1, 1918 – Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1918 – First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser’s German troops near Narva and Pskov. In honor of this victory, the date is celebrated from 1923 onward as “Red Army Day”; it is renamed Defender of the Fatherland Day after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is colloquially known as “Men’s Day”.
- April 1, 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 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 23, 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
- June 10, 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship Ship SMS sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
- June 22, 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
- June 24, 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- July 17, 1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SMU U-55; 5 lives are lost.
- August 17, 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
- September 10, 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- October 12, 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
- October 30, 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- November 18, 1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
- November 26, 1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
- December 1, 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
- December 12, 1918 – Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
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