* 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

* 1918 – Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer ( d. 1980 )

In 1918 and 1919, EE took over Dick, Kerr & Co., Willans & Robinson of Rugby and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company of Bradford.

* The fair was canceled in 1918 due to the US Army taking control of Fair Park to establish an aviation boot camp known as Camp Dick.

Led by general manager Charlie Querrie and coach Dick Carroll, the team won the Stanley Cup in 1918.

In 1918, Dick arrived in Southern California with his family and learned to play tennis on three courts in Hollywood.

Richard Benjamin " Dick " Haymes ( September 13, 1918 – March 28, 1980 ) was an actor and singer.

Dick and Naomi Mitchison's four sons were Geoffrey ( 1918 – 1927, who died of meningitis ) Denis ( born 1919 ) later a professor of bacteriology, Murdoch ( born 1922 ), and Avrion ( born 1928 ), both professors of zoology.

Richard " Dick " Gibson ( born Bourne, Lincolnshire, 16 April 1918 – 17 December 2010 ) was a racing driver from England.

* 1918 – Guy Gibson, English aviator, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1944 )

Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

Much of the development of the mandolin from Neapolitan bowl-back to the flat-back style ( actually, gently rounded and carved like a violin ) is attributable to Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

Following Mitchell ’ s death in 1918, Gibson bought the magazine for $ 1 million.

Gibson died August 21, 1918 in St. Lawrence State Hospital, a psychiatric center in Ogdensburg, New York.

Hutton Peter Gibson ( born August 26, 1918 ) is an American writer on Sedevacantism, a World War II veteran, the 1968 Jeopardy!

Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson, RAF ( 12 August 1918 – 19 September 1944 ), was the first CO of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron, which he led in the " Dam Busters " raid ( Operation Chastise ) in 1943, resulting in the destruction of two large dams in the Ruhr area.

Gibson played in the Major Leagues until 1918, 12 years with the Pirates and two years with the New York Giants, appearing in 1, 213 games.

A 1918 " The Gibson " acoustic guitar, with a 13th fret neck join, circular soundhole and floating bridge.

1933 ); they had two sons: Hutton Gibson in 1918 and Alexis Mylott Gibson.

Hoot Gibson who had joined the Army tank corps, returned during Christmas 1918 and Universal gave him a contract to appear in 2-reel westerns.