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The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republi…
The Finnish Civil War ends when the Whites took over Fort Ino, a Russian coastal artillery base on the Karelian Isthmus,
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of…
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U
The 1918 White victory parade in Helsinki was a military parade of the Finnish White Guard on 16 May 1918 celebrating their decisive victory in the Finnish Civil War, which officia…
The victory military parade by the Finnish White Guard is held in Helsinki celebrating their decisive victory in the Fin
The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part …
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
Bapaume is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was a naval battle undertaken by Czechoslovak forces during the Russian Civil War.
The Battle of Lake Baikal is fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
The Democratic Republic of Georgia was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to March 1921. Recognized by all major European powers o…
The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic, was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds. The ADR was founded b…
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: U
The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were designated SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff.…
The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS mo
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which, along with the assassination of…
The Oberste Heeresleitung was the highest echelon of command of the Imperial German Army. In the latter part of World War I, the Third OHL assumed dictatorial powers and became the…
World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open…
Sayid Abdullah Khan was the last Khan of Khiva of the Khongirad (Qungrat) dynasty, from 1 October 1918 until 1 February 1920. His father was Muhammad Rahim Khan II.
Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
Boris III was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943.
Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
The Hammond circus train wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst train wrecks in U.S. history. Eighty-six people were reported to have died and another 127 were i…
The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana
Airmail is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, an…
First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto
Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and…
Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town…
Nashville is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, located on the Cumberland River. It is the 20…
In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171…
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan was an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India…
Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, and writer (died 2002)
William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Pr…
William Holden, American actor (died 1981)
Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch better known as Gabriel Axel was a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette's Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed.
Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
André Bazin was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist. He started to write about movies in 1943 and was a co-founder of the renowned film magazine Cahiers…
André Bazin, French critic and theorist (died 1958)