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8 unusual facts about 1918


Baron Armstrong

He unsuccessfully contested Berwick-on-Tweed as an independent candidate in the 1918 general election.

British Workers League

In 1918 the British Workers League stood candidates in the general election as the National Democratic and Labour Party.

History Line: 1914-1918

The game was designed to be educational, starting with an animation depicting the Western Front in 1916, and a sequence showing the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose assassination in Sarajevo precipitated the Austrian declaration of war against Serbia which triggered World War I.

Howard Russell Butler

In 1918, Butler's association with Carnegie led to him being invited to witness and record the 1918 Solar eclipse that was observed from Baker City in Oregon.

Irreconcilables

The Republican Party controlled the United States Senate after the election of 1918, but the Senators were divided into multiple positions on the Versailles question.

Khaki election

The term was later used to describe two later British elections, the 1918 general election, fought at the end of the First World War and resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945 general election, held during the closing stages of the Second World War, where the Labour Party candidate, Clement Attlee, won by a landslide.

Silent Sentinels

After the 1918 election, most members of Congress were pro-suffrage.

United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1918

The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1918 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 5, 1918.


1918 Michigan Wolverines football team

On November 16, 1918, five days after the signing of the Armistice marking the end of hostilities in Europe, Michigan defeated Syracuse 16–0.

A History of Everyday Things in England

A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (aka C. H. B.) between 1918 and 1934.

Albert L. Vreeland

He attended the public schools and was employed as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919.

Arthur Knight

Arthur George Knight (1886–1918), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross

Bertram Lichtenstein

Bertram Lichtenstein (28 October 1918 – 7 June 1989) was an American clothing manufacturer.

Bud Wolfe

Roland 'Bud' Wolfe January 12, 1918 - January 28, 1994, was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941.

David Garnett

He was present at the birth of Grant's daughter, Angelica (by Vanessa Bell, and accepted by her husband Clive Bell), on 25 December 1918, and wrote to a friend shortly afterwards, "I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 – will it be scandalous?".

Davis Theater

The Pershing Theater was built in 1918 and was named after First World War General of the Armies, John J. Pershing.

Dulce et Decorum est

It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

Edwin Wood

Edwin Orin Wood (1861–1918), Democratic state chair from Flint, Michigan in 1904

Eugene Hoy Barksdale

He received flight training with the Royal Flying Corps and was assigned to the 41st Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, in 1918.

Fayetteville, Texas

As reprinted by Stars and Stripes in its March 15, 1918 issue, the town's mayor, W. C. Langlotz, and ten of the town's citizens were charged with espionage.

Flag of Poland

Such armbands were worn by Polish freedom fighters during the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and Silesian Uprisings (1919–1921), as well as during the Second World War (1939–1945) by the soldiers of the Home Army (AK) and Peasants' Battalions (BCh) – usually emblazoned with the acronyms of their formations.

Francis Bowditch Wilby

On March 20, 1918 Wilby was transferred to the Chaumont-Porcien on Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Force, where he was appointed as a Chief of Engineer Intelligence Division in the Office of Chief of Engineers.

Georg Brandes

The key idea of "aristocratic radicalism" went on to influence most of the later works of Brandes and resulted in voluminous biographies Wolfgang Goethe (1914–15), Francois de Voltaire (1916–17), Gaius Julius Cæsar 1918 and Michelangelo (1921).

George E. Hood

March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 - elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1918

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

Herbert John Hodgson

As a result of a further engagement in April 1918 east of Wulverghem near Messines he fell into a shell hole and found a mud-encrusted book.

Holzminden internment camp

Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located on the outskirts of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918.

Horšovský Týn

After the death of Louis II of Hungary at the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the country became a constituent state of the Habsburg Monarchy to 1918.

James Taylor Ellyson

In his long political career, he went on to serve in the Senate of Virginia, as mayor of Richmond (1888–1894), and for twelve years (1906–1918) as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.

Joe Cooper

Joe Henry Cooper (1918–1980), American businessman and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Konrad Mägi

From 1918, the influence of Expressionism is manifest, fostered by Mägi's extreme sensitivity and emotional response to the anxious times: Pühajärv (Lake Püha); 1918–1920), Otepää maastik (Landscape of Otepää; 1918–1920).

Lord Gascoyne-Cecil

Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil (1867–1918), British soldier and colonial administrator in Egypt

Maine Central class K 0-6-0

World War I caused 1918 production to be split between builders numbers 57883 and 57884 from Schenectady, and 59865 and 59866 from ALCO's Pittsburgh plant.

Marcel A. Hugues

On 7 March 1918, he was appointed to command of Escadrille Spa95 ('Spa' meaning Spad).

Maria Galvany

She allegedly performed only once in the United States, appearing in vaudeville in San Francisco during 1918, but she never managed to sing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

Montague, Massachusetts

Montague has claimed to be the location of a maple tree that inspired poet Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) to write the popular 1913 poem "Trees", however family accounts and documents establish the poem was written in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Murrayville, Victoria

The area of the locality contains a number of smaller areas namely Duddo which had a post office open from 1913 until 1918, Duddo Wells with a post office from 1914 until 1950, Danyo with a post office from 1912 (when the railway arrived) until 1975, and Goongee.

Müzeyyen Senar

Senar was born on July 16, 1918 in the village of Gököz in the Keles district of Bursa Province, in the then Ottoman Empire.

Navasota discipunctella

It was described by Hampson in 1918, and is known from Nigeria (including Minna, the type location).

Newton Mason

Newton Henry Mason (1918–1942), United States Navy ensign, posthumous recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross

No. 228 Squadron RAF

The last patrol was flown on 24 October 1918 and the squadron disbanded on 30 June 1919 at RAF Killingholme.

Norman Augustus Finch

On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.

Preston Brown

He served as Chief of Staff in the 2nd Infantry Division at Château-Thierry and Saint-Mihiel in 1918, and was Chief of Staff of the 4th Army Corps.

Rama Raghoba Rane

Major Rama Raghoba Rane, PVC (Konkani: रामा राघोबा राणे), was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India and died July 11, 1994 at Southern command Hospital in Pune.

Rück's Blue Flycatcher

Two specimens, an immature and adult male were last recorded and collected around 1917-1918 in secondary lowland forests in Medan area of North Sumatra province by the Dutch collector, August van Heijst.

Skeleton tank

The Skeleton Tank was an experimental prototype tank built in 1918 by the Pioneer Tractor Company, Winona, Minnesota.

St-Gervais-et-St-Protais

On 29 March 1918, a German shell, fired by the long-range "Paris Gun", fell on the church, killing 88 people and wounding 68 others; the explosion collapsed the roof when a Good Friday service was in progress.

Stropkov District

Until 1918, the district was mostly part of the county of Kingdom of Hungary of Zemplín, apart from an area in the

Terry Turner

Terrance Lamont (Terry) Turner (February 28, 1881 – July 18, 1960) was an infielder in Major League Baseball who played between 1901 and 1919 for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1901), Cleveland Naps/Indians (1904–1918) and Philadelphia Athletics (1919).

Trade Boards Act 1918

The Trade Boards Act 1918 (c 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that heavily shaped the post-World War I system of UK labour law, particularly regarding collective bargaining and the establishment of minimum wages.

Trombidium southcotti

The species is named in honor of doctor and scientist Ronald Vernon Southcott (1918–1998), who described another species in the same genus, T. breei.

Verville VCP

In 1918, Virginius E. Clark, in charge of the Plane Design section of the U.S. Army Air Service's Engineering Division and Alfred V. Verville, who had recently joined the Engineering Division from private industry, started design of a single-seat fighter (known as "pursuit" aircraft to the U.S. Army), the VCP-1 (Verville-Clark Pursuit).

Villas Boas

Villas-Bôas brothers, Orlando (1914–2002), Cláudio (1916–1998) and Leonardo Villas-Bôas (1918–1961), Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples

Walter A. Gordon

In 1918 he became one of the first two African-American All-Americans (the first was Paul Robeson).

William Henry Houghton

After a series of revivalistic meetings at a Baptist church in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1918, he accepted their offer of the pastorate and stayed until he took a new pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1920.

William Nichols

William Flynt Nichols (1918–1988), Democratic member of United States House of Representatives for the state of Alabama

Wythoff construction

W.A. Wythoff, A relation between the polytopes of the C600-family, Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, 20 (1918) 966–970.


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