* 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

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 ).

Dwayne Orville Andreas ( born 4 March 1918 ) is one of the most prominent political campaign donors in the United States, having contributed millions of dollars to Democratic and Republican candidates alike.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.

* 1858 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer ( d. 1918 )

Stravinsky also included a ragtime in his theater piece L ' histoire du soldat ( 1918 ).

Another V6-car was designed in 1918 by Leo Goosen for Buick Chief Engineer Walter L. Marr.

* Mackenzie King, W. L. Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Under-Lying Industrial Reconstruction ( 1918 ) online edition ; also full text online and downloadable.

* L ' Étoile dans la Nuit ( The Star in the Night ) ( 1918 )

* Edward L. Brown, 1917 – 1918

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

In 1918, an American author, L. W. de Laurence, published an exact facsimile copy of the book under the title The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, Illustrating the Greater and Lesser Arcana, without giving any credit to Waite.

Russell M. Tanner, the father ( 1918 – 1986 ), and Hazel L. Tanner, the mother ( 1937 – 1990 ) were the parents of over twenty children and touched the lives of many in the Eastern Arkansas area.

* William L. Nelson ( Medal of Honor ) ( 1918 – 1943 ), World War II Medal of Honor recipient

The GTE Corporation, which had been the largest independent telephone company in the United States until its merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications in 2000, originated when John F. O ' Connell, Sigurd L Odegard and John A. Pratt acquired the Richland Center Telephone Company in 1918.

Other notable science fiction films of the silent era include The Impossible Voyage ( 1904 ), The Motorist ( 1906 ), Conquest of the Pole ( 1912 ), Himmelskibet ( 1918 ), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), L ' Huomo Meccanico ( 1921 ), Paris Qui Dort ( 1923 ), Aelita ( 1924 ), Luch Smerti ( 1925 ) and The Lost World ( 1925 ).

* John L. Sullivan ( 1858 – 1918 ), boxing heavyweight champion, born in Roxbury

* L ' Horreur Allemande ( 1918 )

* Alfred L. Kroeber ( 1917 – 1918 )

* John L. Sullivan ( 1858 – 1918 ), bare-knuckle boxer and first modern world heavyweight champion

* L. sabularum ( Bondroit, 1918 )

The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918.

Colonel Bolling was the Assistant Chief of the Air Service, and was killed in action near Amiens, France, on 26 March 1918 while defending himself and his driver, Corporal Paul L. Holder, from an attack by German soldiers.

The name originally referred to a small bluff of land jutting into the East River at what is now the westernmost end of Freeman Street, but eventually came to describe the whole peninsula .< ref > Felter, William L., Historic Green Point, Green Point Savings Bank: 1918. pg.

* John L. Sullivan ( 1858 – 1918 ), heavyweight boxing champion

In 1918 Edge was elected to the United States Senate, defeating George L. Record and Edward W. Gray in the Republican primary, and Democratic candidate George W. La Monte in the general election.