Date: April 20, 1918
SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. Date: February 5, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1918 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1918Daylight Saving…
The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. Date: December 27, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 27 📅 Events on this day in 1918 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1918Austria-Hungary Dissolves: Austria Becomes Republic, Coup Defeated November 12, 1918Spanish Flu Begins at Camp Funston, Kansas, March…
The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. Date: November 10, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events…
World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies. Date: October 30, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 30 📅 Events on this day in 1918 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1918Finnish White Guard Victory Parade in Helsinki, May 16, 1918Battle of…
Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. Date: February 5, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 5 📅 Events on this day in 1918 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1918Tsar Boris III Ascends Bulgarian Throne, October…
World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments. Date: October 30, 1918 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 30 📅 Events on this day in…