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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.
• March 31, 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
• April 23, 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
• July 9, 1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
• September 28, 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
• November 7, 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• November 11, 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is commemorated annually with a two minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
• November 25, 1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
• December 4, 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.

Who Were Born On 1918?

• February 3, 1918 – Helen Stephens, American runner, baseball player, and manager (d. 1994)
• February 12, 1918 – Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (d. 2015)
• March 1, 1918 – Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973)
• April 8, 1918 – Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (d. 1992)
• May 9, 1918 – Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
• July 17, 1918 – Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
• September 24, 1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
• October 19, 1918 – Charles Evans, English-Welsh mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (d. 1995)
• November 7, 1918 – Billy Graham, American minister and author
• December 26, 1918 – Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)