* 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

Hermann Zapf was born in Nuremberg during turbulent times marked by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 in Munich and Berlin, the end of World War I, the exile of Kaiser Wilhelm, and the establishment of Bavaria as a free state by Kurt Eisner.

The completeness of sentential calculus was proved by Paul Bernays in 1918 and Emil Post in 1921, while the completeness of predicate calculus was proved by Kurt Gödel in 1930, and consistency proofs for arithmetics restricted with respect to the induction axiom schema were proved by Ackermann ( 1924 ), von Neumann ( 1927 ) and Herbrand ( 1931 ).

Nevertheless, Sebottendorff planned and failed to kidnap the Bavarian socialist prime minister, Kurt Eisner, in December 1918.

On October 1, 1913, he married Margarete Georgen with whom he had three sons, Heinz Günter ( born Aug 2nd 1914 to 2004 ) and Kurt ( born 17th September 1918 to 1984 ), Ronald Mach Dornaldt Guderian ( born 15th May 1919 to 1995 ).

In 1903 he married Käte Kleefeld ( 1885 – 1970 ), daughter of a wealthy Jewish Berlin businessman, and the sister of Kurt von Kleefeld, the last person in Germany to be ennobled ( in 1918 ).

* Unexplained / Alternative history: Alternative theories of history ( among them the theories that outlaws such as Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy did not die as history recorded, that the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov survived the 1918 regicide that killed her entire family, that the assassination of Louisiana senator Huey Long may have been an accident, that the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr was in fact a conspiracy, and that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered ).

* Kurt Waldheim ( 1918 – 2007 ), UN Secretary-General, Austrian president

" (" Kurt Eisner, who proclaimed the Bavarian republic on 8 November 1918 – later Prime Minister of the Republic of Bavaria – was murdered here on 21 February 1919.

* Picture of Kurt Eisner, taken in early 1918 Historisches Lexikon Bayerns

After the coming of sound he made a trilogy of films that secured his reputation: Westfront 1918 ( 1930 ), The Threepenny Opera ( 1931 ) with Lotte Lenya ( based on the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical ), and Kameradschaft ( 1931 ).

Around 1919, Janco had come to describe Constructivism as a needed transition from " negative " Dada, an idea also pioneered by his colleagues Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg, and finding an early expression in Janco's plaster relief Soleil jardin clair ( 1918 ).

After the revolution of November 1918, he served in prime minister Kurt Eisner's government as People's Commissar ( Minister ) for Trade, but only for some days in December 1918.

The last title was conferred on 12 November 1918 to Kurt von Klefeld.

* Kurt Eisner-leader of the 1918 revolution in Bavaria.

On the afternoon of 7 November 1918, the first anniversary of the Russian revolution, Kurt Eisner of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) addressed a crowd, estimated to have been about 60, 000, on the Theresienwiese ( current site of the Oktoberfest ).

Right after the war and the start of the November Revolution ( German Revolution ) Kurt Eisner sent a letter to Landauer on 14 November 1918 inviting him to participate in the Revolution and the establishment of a soviet republic in Bavaria: " What I would like you to do is to contribute in the reconstruction of the souls by speech ".

After the revolution of November 1918, he served as Minister of Education under prime minister Kurt Eisner and later succeed him on 17 March 1919 as the first freely elected Bavarian Minister President.

In politics, he was an enthusiastic supporter of " fourteen points " made by Woodrow Wilson on 8 January 1918 and pacifist initiatives of Kurt Hiller.

From 1918 until April 1920, Kurt Tucholsky contributed 50 articles fo the Berliner Tageblatt while he was also editor in chief of the satirical magazine Ulk, which appeared weekly between 1913 and 1933.

Although the novel was completed in July 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I, it was not published until 1918 ( by Kurt Wolff Verlag of Leipzig ).