* 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 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( d. 1918 )

* May 2 – Manfred von Richthofen ( the Red Baron ), German World War I fighter pilot ( d. 1918 )

* Manfred von Richthofen ( the top scoring WW1 ace ) is associated with an all red Fokker Dr. I triplane, at least for some of his 80 victories ( 1917 – 1918 )

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen ( 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918 ), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service ( Luftstreitkräfte ) during World War I.

* Manfred von Richthofen ( 1892 – 1918 ), World War I ace known as " The Red Baron "

In early 1918, it was proposed to award the oak leaves to Germany's top flying ace, Manfred von Richthofen, but he was deemed ineligible under a strict reading of the regulations.

His fourth kill on 13 August 1918 was the Jasta 11 Fokker D. VII of Lothar von Richthofen, brother of " The Red Baron ," Manfred von Richthofen.

The most famous member is the air ace Manfred von Richthofen ( 1892 – 1918 ), also known as the " Red Baron ", but a number of other members of his family are also notable for various reasons.

On his first mission with his cousin, Manfred was killed in April 1918.

He reported to his cousin Manfred ’ s unit, Jagdgeschwader 1 ( JG 1 ) on the 4 April 1918.

On his first mission with his cousin, Manfred was killed in April 1918.

He becomes the first pilot to surpass the World War I record of 80 victories set by Manfred von Richtofen in 1918 and the highest-scoring ace in history at the time.

File: Richthofen funeral. jpg | The military funeral of Manfred von Richthofen is presided by officers of the No. 3 Squadron RAAF who carry his coffin in Bertangles Cemetery, France on April 22, 1918.

Captain Roy Brown's Sopwith Camel, which shot down Manfred von Richthofen ( the Red Baron ) on 21 April 1918, was made in this building.

Perhaps the most famous single. 303 British round ever fired was on 21 April 1918, during World War I, when Manfred von Richthofen, the famed " Red Baron " flying ace, was mortally wounded by an Australian (?

From early 1918, 3 Sqn flew in a sector of the Somme Valley, facing German planes commanded by the " Red Baron ", Manfred von Richthofen.

During an engagement near the Somme River on 21 April 1918, Smout was an eyewitness to the final moments in the life and career of the famous German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen ( aka the " Red Baron "), whose aeroplane had landed nearby after he was fatally shot.

* Rittmeister ( cavalry Captain ) Manfred Albrecht Frhr von Richthofen ( 1892 – 1918 ) also known as " The Red Baron ", awarded the 3rd Class, with Crown & Swords, for earning an unprecedented 70th aerial victory as Germany's top fighter ace of the Great War, April 6, 1918.

By the end of 22 June 1941, the first day of Barbarossa, he had added another four victories to his tally and a week later, Mölders surpassed Manfred von Richthofen's 1918 record of 80 victories.