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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

• February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
• April 24, 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
• May 11, 1918 – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.
• June 10, 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
• July 15, 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
• August 13, 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
• August 30, 1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• October 11, 1918 – San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico.
• October 28, 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.
• November 3, 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.

Who Were Born On 1918?

• January 21, 1918 – Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
• January 23, 1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• February 2, 1918 – Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)
• June 8, 1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
• July 9, 1918 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
• August 17, 1918 – Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress and singer (d. 1985)
• September 14, 1918 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (d. 2008)
• October 14, 1918 – Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)
• December 13, 1918 – Kim Won-kwon, South Korean jumper
• December 15, 1918 – Jeff Chandler, American actor and singer (d. 1961)