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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 17, 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
• March 30, 1918 – Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
• April 23, 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
• 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 21, 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
• September 5, 1918 – The original publication of the Cheka decree, “On Red Terror”.
• October 1, 1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, capture Damascus.
• November 23, 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• December 28, 1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

Who Were Born On 1918?

• January 26, 1918 – Philip José Farmer, American author (d. 2009)
• March 8, 1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• April 10, 1918 – Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
• June 18, 1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• June 21, 1918 – Ekkehard Kylling-Schmidt, German soldier (d. 2000)
• June 24, 1918 – Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean businessman and politician, Singaporean Minister for Education (d. 2012)
• August 4, 1918 – Iceberg Slim, American pimp and author (d. 1992)
• September 22, 1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and educator (d. 1988)
• October 17, 1918 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (d. 2014)
• November 30, 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)