* 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

During World War I, in 1918, Pilecki joined a ZHP Scout section of the Polish self-defense units under General Władysław Wejtko in the Wilno area.

* Władysław Byrka 1918 – 1919

* Władysław Wróblewski ( November 5 – 11, 1918 )

* Władysław Kossak ( 1828 – 1918 ) – painter, Polish émigré in Australia

Władysław Ogrodziński (; June 2, 1918 – February 6, 2012 ) was a Polish historian and writer.

* Władysław Ślewiński ( 1854 – 1918 ), a Polish painter

After 1918, the newly independent Polish state returned to the Napoleonic tradition and the 1932 criminal code did not specify homosexuality as a crime.

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

From then until 1918 there was no independent Polish state.

The Second Polish Republic was established and existed from 1918 to 1939.

With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endorsed in June 1918 by the Entente Powers, on whose fronts sizable armies of Polish volunteers had been mobilized and fought.

They cited the successes of the newly formed ( 15 January 1918 ) voluntary Red Army against Polish forces of Gen. Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki in Belarus, White forces in the Don region, and newly independent Ukrainian forces as proof that the Red Army could repel German forces, especially if propaganda and asymmetrical warfare were used.

* 1918 – Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland-symbolic first day of Polish independence.

* 1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.

* 1918 – A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established.

After World War I the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) brought Poznań and most of the region under Polish control, confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles.

The Second Polish Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia formed their armies immediately after the abolition of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and the start of the Soviet westward offensive in November 1918.

Since the Second Polish Republic ( 1918 – 1939 ) Sejm has referred only to the lower house of the parliament ; the upper house is called the Senat.

Overall, during the period from 1795 until reestablishment of Poland's sovereignty in 1918, little power was actually held by any Polish legislative body and the occupying powers of Russia, Prussia ( later united Germany ) and Austria-Hungary propagated legislation for their own respective formerly-Polish territories at a national level.

After the First World War and re-establishment of Polish independence, the convocation of parliament, under the democratic electoral law of 1918, became an enduring symbol of the new state's wish to demonstrate and establish continuity with the 300 year Polish parliamentary traditions established before the time of the partitions.

From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.

After Poland regained independence with the end of the World War I in 1918, the party merged with agrarian groups from territories previously occupied by Imperial Russia and formed the first PSL led by Wincenty Witos, becoming one of the most important political parties in the Second Polish Republic until it was removed by the Sanacja regime ( see also People's Party ).

Following the end of World War I, the Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 – 1919 ) ensured that most of the region became part of the newly independent Polish state, forming most of Poznań Voivodeship ( 1921 – 1939 ).

At this time, Galicia was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but in 1918, it became part of the Second Polish Republic, and the city took its Polish name, Lwów.

Following the Silesian Uprisings ( 1918 – 21 ) Katowice became part of the Second Polish Republic with a certain level of autonomy ( Silesian Parliament as a constituency and Silesian Voivodeship Council as the executive body ).

Some time in 1918 or 1919, Sergiusz Piasecki returned to Belarus, joining Belarusian anti-Soviet units, the " Green Oak " ( in Polish, Zielony Dąb ), led by Ataman Wiaczesław Adamowicz ( pseudonym: J. Dziergacz ).

* Jerzy Ogonowski, Uprawnienia językowe mniejszości narodowych w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918 – 1939 ( The Language Rights of National Minorities in the Second Republic of Poland, 1918 – 1939, Polish with an English summary ), Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warsaw, 2000