* 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan.

Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, was a founder in 1912 of the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism, and was the first rabbi hired by the new ( Orthodox ) Jewish Center in Manhattan when it was founded in 1918.

A former SR, Fanny Kaplan, tried to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918.

Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (; real name Feiga Haimovna Roytblat ; February 10, 1890 – September 3, 1918 ), was a Russian political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin.

When it became clear that Kaplan would not implicate any accomplices, she was executed on September 3, 1918 with a bullet to the back of the head.

The campaign of mass repressions was officially initiated as retribution for the assassination of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky by Leonid Kannegisser, and attempted assassination of Lenin by Fanni Kaplan on August 30, 1918.

Upon his release in 1918 Kaplan became involved in " labor slugging ", providing muscle to either side in the strikes common in New York in that era.

However, after the unsuccessful attempt upon Lenin's life by Fanny Kaplan in August 1918, the " Red Terror " against Esers was launched.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

The Reichstag delegates were elected by direct and equal male suffrage ( and not the three-class electoral system prevailing in Prussia until 1918 ).

After the Revolution of November 1918 and the establishment of the Weimar Constitution, women were given the right to vote for ( and serve in ) the Reichstag, and the parliament could use the no-confidence vote to force the chancellor or any cabinet member to resign.

The British Army's lessons were mainly drawn from the successful infantry and artillery offensives on the Western Front in late 1918.

In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated to a Postal Tube Railway at Holborn, the National Library of Wales ( Aberystwyth ) and a country house near Malvern.

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

A 1922 image of Charlie Chaplin Studios, where all of Chaplin's films between 1918 and 1952 were produced

The Czechoslovak Armed Forces were originally formed after 1918, when Czechoslovakia was created from former Austro-Hungarian areas after the defeat of that country in World War I.

The service was slowly being expanded over the years as more postal offices were established in each large city by 1918.

In August 1918, railway sections were formed under the Gubcheks.

In the fall of 1918, Extraordinary Commissions to combat counterrevolution on the Southern ( Ukraine ) Front were formed.

On April 11 / 12, 1918, some 26 anarchist political centres in Moscow were attacked.

In September 1918, according to The Black Book of Communism, in only twelve provinces of Russia, 48, 735 deserters and 7, 325 " bandits " were arrested, 1, 826 were killed and 2, 230 were executed.

It was not until the German Army had been forced to retreat in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, that cavalry were again able to operate in their intended role.

For the portions of Serbia ruled by Austria-Hungary until 1918, there were a total of five Austro-Hungarian censuses — 1910, 1900, 1890, 1880 and 1869, immediately after the Dual Monarchy's constitution.

In 1918, the Army adopted and allotted the serial number system, and name and serial numbers were ordered stamped on the identification tags of all enlisted troops.

Beginning in 1918, the first DAT trucks were assembled for the military market.

These were accounts of two visions, one from Joseph Smith and the other from his nephew, Joseph F. Smith in 1918.

These theories were given credence by the fact that when Germany surrendered in November 1918, its armies were still in French and Belgian territory, Berlin remained 450 miles from the nearest front, and the German armies retired from the field of battle in good order.

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

From 1915 to 1918, Berg served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and during a period of leave in 1917 he accelerated work on his first opera, Wozzeck.

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

His successor, Frederick II Irontooth, established Berlin as capital of the margraviate, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as German emperors.

The Arabs expressed disapproval in November 1918 at the parade marking the first anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

A Dog's Life, released April 1918, was the first film under the new contract.

The first of the re-releases was The Chaplin Revue ( 1959 ), which included new versions of A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms and The Pilgrim, and How to Make Movies, a film he had made in 1918 to show his new studio and which had never before been released.

In this, the Cheka said that they targeted " class enemies " such as the bourgeoisie, and members of the clergy ; the first organized mass repression began against the libertarians and socialists of Petrograd in April 1918.

For example, the first published standard was '' ( about tapered pins ) in 1918.

* 1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

) The first line of the anthem changed with each new emperor until 1918.

In February 1918, Huelsenbeck gave his first Dada speech in Berlin, and produced a Dada manifesto later in the year.

Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice on September 29, 1918 at Saloniki.

Barth traces the first documented use to a centrist political meeting in the Munich Löwenbräu-Keller on November 2, 1918, in which Ernst Müller-Meiningen, a member of the Progressive coalition in the Reichstag, used the term to exhort his listeners to keep fighting:

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.