* Fairbanks Fragments ( 1916 – 1918 ) also screenwriter

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president ( d. 1982 )

* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )

* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

* 1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG ( BMW ) established as a public company in Germany.

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

* 1918 – Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

He Russified his Jewish name David and patronymic Abelevich to Denis Arkadievich at some point after 1918.

Jellicoe was made a Viscount in 1918 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1919, along with David Beatty.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, has made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918.

Under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, however, from 1918 onwards, the powers of the office increased, as Lloyd George unilaterally claimed for himself powers that had previously belonged to the Cabinet collectively, including, most dramatically, the right to seek a parliamentary dissolution.

IR only emerged as a formal academic ‘ discipline ’ in 1918 with the founding of the first ‘ chair ’ ( professorship ) in IR-the Woodrow Wilson Chair at Aberystwyth, University of Wales ( now Aberystwyth University ), from an endowment given by David Davies, became the first academic position dedicated to IR.

* Joseph David " Joe " Waggonner, Jr. ( 1918 – 2007 ), a former U. S. Representative, was born in Plain Dealing and interred at Plain Dealing Cemetery.

His children from the first marriage were John Stephen Chennault ( 1913 – 1977 ), Max Thompson Chennault ( 1914 – 2001 ), Charles Lee Chennault ( 1918 – 1967 ), Peggy Sue Chennault Lee ( born 1919 ), Claire Patterson Chennault ( November 24, 1920 – October 3, 2011 ), David Wallace Chennault ( 1923 – 1980 ), Robert Kenneth Chennault ( 1925 – 2006 ), and Rosemary Louise Chennault Simrall ( born 1928 ).

* Diephouse, David J. Pastors and Pluralism in Wurttemberg, 1918 – 1933 ( 1987 ) 393pp

He had sufficiently recovered from wartime injuries to appear at the London Coliseum on 19 June 1916, as Rahmat Sheikh in The Maharani of Arakan, with Lena Ashwell ; at the Playhouse in December that year as Stephen Weatherbee in Charles Goddard & Paul Dickey's play The Misleading Lady ; at the Court Theatre in March 1917 he played Webber in Partnership and at that theatre the following year appeared in Eugène Brieux's play, adapted from the French, Damaged Goods ; at the Ambassadors Theatre in February 1918 he played George Lubin in The Little Brother, and during 1918 toured as David Goldsmith in The Bubble.

* David Powlett-Jones of To Serve Them All My Days begins his teaching of history at a rural public school shortly after being released from a shell-shock ward in 1918.

In 1918, she appeared in Daddies, a David Belasco production.

Parry died in 1918 and was succeeded as director by Sir Hugh Allen ( 1919 – 37 ), Sir George Dyson ( 1938 – 52 ), Sir Ernest Bullock ( 1953 – 59 ), Sir Keith Falkner ( 1960 – 74 ), Sir David Willcocks ( 1974 – 84 ), Michael Gough Mathews ( 1985 – 93 ), Dame Janet Ritterman ( 1993 – 2005 ) and Colin Lawson ( 2005 –).

He again held political office during the First World War when he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries between 1917 and 1918 in David Lloyd George's coalition government.

In the 1950s, there were mergers with the Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association ( founded in 1893 in Tabor, Iowa ) in 1950 ; the International Holiness Mission ( founded in London in 1907 by David Thomas ) merged on 29 October 1952 ; the Calvary Holiness Church ( founded in Britain 1934 by Maynard James and Jack Ford ), united on June 11, 1955 ; and the Gospel Workers Church of Canada ( founded in Ontario in 1918 ) became part of the Church of the Nazarene on 7 September 1958.

On 14 April 1918, Tennessee Guardsman Reed Chambers flew with Eddie Rickenbacker and David Peterson of the 94th Pursuit Squadron from Villeneuve, France on the first combat mission ever ordered by an American commander of a U. S. squadron of American pilots.

Epstein is credited with making several key acquisitions, including David Ortiz, Kevin Millar, and Curt Schilling, during his first tenure as Red Sox GM, who were regarded as instrumental in breaking the so-called " Curse of the Bambino " and winning the Red Sox their first World Series Championship since 1918.

* David Sanders Davies ( 1852 – 1934 ), Liberal politician, MP for Denbigh 1918 – 1922

* David Ffrangcon-Davies ( 1855 – 1918 ), baritone

* David Ffrangcon-Davies ( 1855 – 1918 ), Welsh operatic baritone

Alvin Johnson hired Anderson to move to New York and write about politics for The New Republic in 1918, but he was fired for winning an argument with Editor-in-Chief Herbert David Croly.