* 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

* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1918 )

* Spiro Agnew ( 1918 – 1996 ), 39th Vice President of the United States

Alexander Agnew McCormick, Jr. ( 15 December 1897 – 24 September 1918 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I.

* Mehmed V ( 1848 – 1918 ), 39th Ottoman Sultan

* 6th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers ( August 1914 – April 1918, reduced to cadre and transferred to 39th Division )

In July 1918, the 39th Brigade would be detached from the division and be assigned to General Lionel Dunsterville's Dunsterforce.

In February 1918 the 20th and 21st Battalions were disbanded and in June the 22nd ( 3rd Tyneside Scottish ) joined the 48th Brigade, 16th ( Irish ) Division while the 23rd Battalion ( 4th Tyneside Scottish ) joined the 116th Brigade, 39th Division.

In February 1918, the 24th, 26th and 27th Battalions were disbanded and the 25th Battalion ( 2nd Tyneside Irish ) transferred to the 116th Brigade, 39th Division.

In February 1918 the 1st, 3rd and 4th Tyneside Irish battalions were disbanded and the remaining battalion, the 2nd Tyneside Irish, was transferred to the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division.

A 1918 expansion added the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment through the 39th Field Artillery Regiment

* 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President ( d. 1918 )

In 1918, when Theodore Roosevelt was entertaining plans ( later abandoned ) to reprise his presidency, he considered Harding had strong potential to run and serve as Vice President, and discussed with Harry Daugherty the desirability of having Harding on his ticket.

The Stellvertretungsgesetz was revised on 28 October 1918, when the possibility of appointing deputies with limited responsibilities was removed and the Vice Chancellor was given the right to appear before Parliament.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

The same year he merged the McLaughlin Car Company of Canada and the Chevrolet Car Company of Canada to call it General Motors Car Company of Canada Limited, Sam McLaughlin would go on to be General Motors Vice President in 1918 when Chevrolet owned 54 % of General Motors stock of $ 90, 000, 000. 00 Chevrolet was incorporated in the USA and General Motors of Canada was incorporated when McLaughlin as a large shareholder of General Motors stock allowed it to happen.

They both saw action, which was described on 24 April 1918 by Vice – Admiral Sir Roger Keyes of the Royal Navy in a message to the ferries ' manager:

Playing every angle, Daugherty envisioned the possibility of electing a governor in 1918 who would appoint him to fill the remaining Senate term of Harding in the event of his selection as Vice President in 1920, as was rumored by some Republican political insiders.

In 1960, Wyoming further celebrated Morris as a key impetus of Wyoming suffrage by donating a life-sized bronze statue of her to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C. Officiating at the Statuary Hall ceremony were Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Richard Arnold Mullens ( 1918 – 2010 ), the president at the time of the Wyoming State Society.

He served as First Vice President of Panama in the cabinet of Belisario Porras from 1918 to 1920 and also as acting President of Panama from January 30, 1920 to October 1, 1920.

Pedro Antonio Díaz ( 5 July 1852-8 May 1919 ) was First Vice President of Panama in 1918 and in that capacity also acting President of Panama from October 1, 1918 to October 12, 1918.

He served as First Vice President in the cabinet of Ramón Maximiliano Valdés from 1916 to 1918 and as acting President from June 3, 1918 to October 1, 1918.