1918 h2 TimelineJuly02 - Allied Supreme War Council supports intervention in Siberia
03 - SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament.
06 - President Wilson agrees to American intervention in Siberia
09 - 101 killed & 171 injured in worst US train wreck, Nashville, Tenn.
09 - Congress creates Distinguished Service Medal.
10 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms.
12 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed.
17 - Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17.
17 - Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46.
17 - Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13.
17 - Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
17 - Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death.
18 - Allied counterattack seizes strategical initiative from Germans; nine US divisions participate
18 - World War I US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive.
19 - World War I German armies retreat across Marne River in France.
22 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park.
25 - -jul 28 1918 A race riot occurred in Chester, Pennsylvania. 3 blacks and 2 whites were killed.
25 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif.
27 - Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY.
30 - Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies.
August00 - Influenza pandemic begins, over twenty-five million people die in the following six months 1919c0200 .
01 - British troops enter Vladivostok.
03 - Large-scale Allied intervention begins at Vladivostok
06 - Ferdinand Foch becomes marshal of France.
06 - World War I 2nd battle of the Marne ends.
08 - World War I Anglo-French counter-attack at Amiens supported by heavy artillery and 400 tanks achieves major successes.Ludendorff describes it as 'the Black Day' for the German army.
10 - 1st US Army organized under Pershing
11 - Alvin York Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans.
15 - Russia severs diplomatic ties with US.
16 - US troops overthrows Archangelsk.
17 - World War I American-designed bomber, Army Martin MB-1, made its first flight with T. E. Springer as pilot.It became the first standard bomber of the Air Service but did not enter combat, while later modifications of it were used by the Post Office Department.
17 - Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus.
17 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan.
20 - World War I Britain opens offensive on Western front.
30 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded by Fanya Kaplin after speech.
30 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic.
September01 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920.
03 - 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917.
03 - World War I Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line.
04 - US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.
12 - United States launches St. Mihiel offensive
12 - World War I During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel.
13 - Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42.
15 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state.
19 - Battle of Megiddo Opening of British offensive in Palestine
23 - British 15th Cavalry Brigade attacks Haifa.
26 - Meuse-Argonne offensive
26 - Allied offensive at Meuse-Argonne opens; greatest offensive of war for US forces
26 - World War I Battle of the Argonne, final major battle of the war.
29 - Bulgaria signs armistice
29 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line.
October01 - World War I First bombing using electrical releases, Allied bombers in an attack on German infantry counterattack.
03 - Boris becomes king of Bulgaria.
04 - Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC.
06 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die.
08 - Corporal Alvin York l.sgt takes command and leads seven men to capture a active german machine gun nest, killing 25 and capturing 132 others, including 4 officers.He is said to have explained this feat by saying they had surrounded the enemy.
12 - Cloquet Minn & 25 other communities destroyed by forest fire, 559 die.
12 - Forest fire in Minnesota & Northern Wisconsin kills about 800.
12 - 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital).
15 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6.
17 - Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic.
18 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire.
20 - Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions.
21 - Germany ceases unrestricted U-boat warfare
21 - Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
23 - Actor Charlie Chaplin (29) weds Mildred Harris (17).
25 - Canadian steamship "Princess Sophia" hit a reef off Alaska, 398 die.
28 - Kiel mutiny by German sailors.
28 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up.
30 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state.
31 - Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week.
November01 - Americans breakthrough German defences at Meuse.
01 - Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians.
01 - 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn.
03 - Mutiny of the German fleet, Soviets take control of Kiel.
03 - World War I Americans cut vital Lille-Metz rail link.
03 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves.
04 - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors.
05 - USA Congressional elections result in Republican control of Congress
06 - Republic of Poland proclaimed.
07 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets.
07 - United Press erroneously reports World War I armistice had been signed.
09 - Republic Germany proclaimed.
09 - Bavaria proclaims itself a republic.
11 - World War I On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the Armistice is signed effectively halting the War. The final Treaty of Versailles is signed on jun 28 1919.
11 - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution.
12 - Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic.
13 - Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
14 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president.
16 - Hungarian People's Republic declared.
18 - President Wilson announces that he will attend peace conference personally
18 - Latvia declares independence from Russia.
21 - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland.
21 - 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die.
22 - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov).
29 - Serbia annexes Montenegro.
December00 - New voting laws in Sweden. Votes no longer dependent on taxable assets. One person, one vote.
01 - Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown.
01 - Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established.
13 - Wilson aboard the liner George Washington arrives at Brest, France
13 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany.
15 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting.
16 - Sports Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds.
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