1918 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1918?
- January 29, 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
- February 3, 1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
- February 5, 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 24, 1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
- March 31, 1918 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
- April 20, 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- May 11, 1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
- May 26, 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
- July 4, 1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
- August 11, 1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- August 13, 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- September 28, 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- October 28, 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
- October 31, 1918 – Banat Republic is founded
- November 13, 1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- December 1, 1918 – The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
- December 17, 1918 – Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
- December 28, 1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
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