* 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

They had five children, Constance, born 1911, Marjorie, 1912, Barbara, 1916, Eleanor, 1918, and Janet, born 1922.

Other known surviving movies include Youth's Endearing Charm ( 1916 ), A Dream or Two Ago ( 1916 ), Innocence of Lizette ( 1916 ), The Eyes of Julia Deep ( 1918 ), Nurse Marjorie ( 1920 ), A Cumberland Romance ( 1920 ) and The Little Clown ( 1921 ).

Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle ( 1918 – 1989 ) in 1946.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

* 1918 – Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane ( d. 2007 )

* April 1918 – Austen Chamberlain succeeds Lord Milner as Minister without Portfolio.

* Lord Derby, and then ( after April, 1918 ), Lord Milner – Secretary of State for War

* Sir Frederick Cawley ( to 1918 ), and then Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Downham – Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

In 1918 a unique crown was designed in Finland for the proposed " King of Finland and Karelia, Duke of Åland, Grand Prince of Lapland, Lord of Kaleva and the North " ( Suomen ja Karjalan kuningas, Ahvenanmaan herttua, Lapinmaan suuriruhtinas, Kalevan ja Pohjolan isäntä ).

In 1918 Asquith declined an offer of the job of Lord Chancellor, as this would have meant retiring from active politics in the House of Commons.

In 1918 the 12th Earl of Home died, Dunglass succeeded him in the earldom, and the courtesy title passed to Alec Douglas-Home, who was styled Lord Dunglass until 1951.

Lord Killanin married ( Mary ) Sheila Cathcart Dunlop ( 1918 – 2007 ), MBE, of Oughterard, County Galway, in 1945.

In 1918 he wrote in cooperation with George Ambrose Lloyd ( later The Lord Lloyd ) " The Great Opportunity " aiming to set an agenda for a revived Conservative Party separate from the Lloyd George coalition.

* Lord Edward Cecil ( 12 July 1867 – 13 December 1918 )

Grossmith's last stage appearance was in 1918, in his old role of Lord Arthur Pomeroy in A Pantomime Rehearsal, with an all-star cast including Charles Hawtrey, Fay Compton, Irene Castle and Rutland Barrington, at a charity matinée attended by King George V, Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra.

He distinguished himself commanding the Cavalry Division during the Second Boer War, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1912 but resigned over the Curragh Mutiny, and then served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first two years of World War I before serving as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, then becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a job which he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence.

French eventually accepted appointment as sole Lord Lieutenant in May 1918 on condition it was as a “ Military Viceroy at the Head of a Quasi-Military Government ”.

The minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, held on 5 December 1918 to discuss the various Palestine undertakings makes it clear that Palestine had not been excluded from the agreement with Hussein.

* Field Marshal Lord Plumer 1918 – 1919

Additional sources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography: Dictionary of National Biography, 1931 – 40 ; ' High Court of Justice: Lady Dudley's Separation Allowance ', The Times ( London ), 7 Nov 1918, p 2 ; ' Death of Lady Dudley ', Times ( London ), 28 June 1920, p 16 ; ' Obituary: Lord Dudley ', Times ( London ), 30 June 1932, p 16 ; C. Cunneen, The Role of the Governor-General in Australia 1901-1927 ( PhD thesis, Australian National University, 1973 ); Alfred Deakin papers, MS 1540 / 19 / 275 ( National Library of Australia ).

In June 1917, Lord Devonport resigned as Food Controller to be replaced by Lord Rhondda, who introduced compulsory rationing of meat, sugar and butter in early 1918.

Lord Rhondda died on 1 July 1918 and was succeeded by John Clynes, MP.

Between 1914 and 1918 Lord worked in a munitions factory in Coventry, then after the First World War in a manufacturing plant for Daimler engines.

In 1918, the post of Controller of the Navy was once again amalgamated with that of Third Sea Lord and in 1965 the post became simply Controller of the Navy.