* 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

As a result of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's capture of two Ottoman armies, an armistice with the Ottoman Empire was signed on 31 October 1918.

Its allies, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, surrendered ; all three empires were dissolved as the Allies achieved victory in November 1918 and occupied Germany.

With the end of the war in November 1918, the moribund Ottoman Empire was ready to be carved up amongst the victors, and Greece now expected the Allies to deliver on their promises.

In 1918, the historical region of Mesopotamia ( then a province within the Ottoman Empire ) was brought under British rule after the Turkish defeat in World War I.

HT sees Islam's pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali, or one of the other four rightly guided Caliphs in the 7th century, but with the 1918 or 1922 abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate.

* 1918 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan ( b. 1844 )

* May 28 is Armenia's first independence, from the Ottoman Empire ;- May 28, 1918.

* 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.

* 1844 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.

When the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918, the United Kingdom refused to keep to the letter of its arrangements with Hussein, and the two nations assumed guardianship of Mesapotamia, Lebanon, Palestine and what became modern Syria.

* 1842 – Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan ( d. 1918 )

Turkey's two southern neighbors, Iraq and Syria, had been part of the Ottoman Empire up to 1918.

The Ottoman Empire broke the treaty after just two months by invading the newly created Democratic Republic of Armenia in May 1918.

* July 4 – Mehmed VI ( 1918 – 1922 ) succeeds Mehmed V ( Resad ) ( 1909 – 1918 ) as Ottoman Sultan.

* September 21 – Abd-ul-Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1918 )

* November 2 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1918 )

or ) ( 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926 ) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918 to 1922.

* Battle of Megiddo ( 1918 ), a battle between British Empire forces and the Ottoman Empire

Russian forces began to leave the area after the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, and by April 1918, it was recaptured by the Ottoman army.

In late October 1918, the armistice between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies was signed at Moudros.