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1918 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1918 Calendar

Historical Events Of 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 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
• February 14, 1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
• February 21, 1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
• May 29, 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
• July 15, 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
• August 11, 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
• November 11, 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
• November 18, 1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.

Who Were Born On 1918?

• January 30, 1918 – David Opatoshu, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• March 5, 1918 – Tadahiko Hayashi, Japanese photographer (d. 1990)
• April 8, 1918 – Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald R. Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
• May 23, 1918 – Denis Compton, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1997)
• May 30, 1918 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)
• June 18, 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• August 18, 1918 – Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Almanac Singers) (d. 1961)
• September 8, 1918 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• October 6, 1918 – Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2010)
• November 29, 1918 – Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (d. 2007)