The official exchange rate of the lempira, pegged at US $ 1 = L2 since 1918, was dramatically devalued in 1990.

They toured the US together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort.

* 1918 – Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 deaths.

First identified early in March 1918 in US troops training at Camp Funston, Kansas.

The wartime takeover of all radio systems ended late in 1918, when the US Congress failed to pass a bill which would have extended this monopoly.

of Defense for the period ending Dec. 31, 1918 are 116, 516 ; which includes 53, 402 battle deaths and 63, 114 non combat deaths., The US Coast Guard lost an additional 192 dead .." United States estimated civilian losses include 128 killed on the RMS Lusitania as well as 629 Merchant Marine personnel killed on merchant ships.

* February 8 – Stanley Armour Dunham, Grandfather of US President Barack Obama ( b. 1918 )

He graduated fourth in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1918 and was commissioned into the US Army Corps of Engineers.

the Marine Detachment of Mare Island won the 1918 Tournament East-West football game ( this bowl game series was later renamed the Rose Bowl Game ), defeating the US Army team fielded by Camp Lewis by a score of 19-7.

At the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, Monash, with the support of the British 4th Army commander Sir Henry Rawlinson commanded the 4th Australian Division, supported by the British 5th Tank Brigade, along with a detachment of US troops, to win a small but operationally significant victory for the Allies.

First published November 24, 1918, it is the second longest running comic strip in the US and has received critical accolades for its influential innovations.

* Henry Brooks Adams, ( 1838 – 1918 ), US 1800-1816

The Anhinga is protected in the US under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

As the US entered World War I, Indian unnecessarily sold most of its Powerplus line in 1917 and 1918 to the United States government, starving its network of dealers.

* Even shortly before on 8 December 1918 the Allied occupation of the Bosporus, the Dardanelles, the eastern coast of the Sea of Marmara, the islands of Imros, Lemnos, Samothrace and Tenedos and 15 km deep into eastern and the eastern shores ; entire area demilitarized ( Zone of the Straits ; complemented 16 March – 10 August 1920 as the allies occupy the Ottoman capital Istanbul ) was a military fact, in November 1918 a double post was created: until the termination of allied occupation on 22 October 1923, there were at all times one British Senior Allied High Commissioner and one ( junior ) Allied High Commissioner ( incumbents from France, thrice, Italy and the US, each twice ).

*, was purchased by the US Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917 ; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918

*, was a motor boat acquired by the US Navy in June 1917 and returned to her owner 30 November 1918

* James Gordon Bennett, Jr. ( 1841 – 1918 ), US newspaper publisher ( and putative origin of eponymous expletive ).

She based this on the reported symptoms in those dying from the flu, and the timing of the big " death spike " in October 1918, right after the Surgeon General, the US Army, and the Journal of the American Medical Association all recommended very large ( by today's standards ) dosages of aspirin.

* The Deadly Virus – The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 US National Archives and Records Administration – pictures and records of the time

* Jack J. Pendleton ( 1918 – 1944 ), US Army soldier and WWII Medal of Honor recipient

Only two US Air Service squadrons — the 17th and 148th Aero Squadrons — saw active service with the British, flying with them until November 1918, after which they were absorbed into the US Air Service.

*" Cold High Winds Do $ 25, 000 Damage ", The Washington Post, March 11, 1918.

In August 1918, Pickford's contract expired and when refusing Zukor's terms for a renewal, she was offered $ 250, 000 to leave the motion picture business.

Quitting the Rockefeller Foundation in February 1918, King became an independent consultant on labour issues for the next two years, earning $ 1, 000 per week from leading American corporations.

“ Aided by a grant of $ 320, 000 from the Carnegie Corporation, the War Service built thirty-six libraries, completing the majority by February 1918.

The Dynomizer was big business ; by 1918, courses in spondylotherapy and ERA cost $ 200 ( about the same purchasing power as $ 2, 800 in 2008 ); equipment was leased at about $ 200 with a monthly $ 5 charge thereafter.

For example, the average cost of a harness rose from $ 46 in 1918 to $ 75 in 1926, the 14-inch plow doubled in cost from $ 14 to $ 28, mowing machines went from $ 45 to $ 95, and farm wagons from $ 85 to $ 150.

These film led to a commission from Herbert M. Dawley to write, direct, co-star and produce the effects for another dinosaur film, The Ghost of Slumber Mountain ( 1918 ), for a budget of $ 3, 000.

Closner's reign ended in 1918, when an audit revealed that as county treasurer he had misappropriated $ 150, 000 from the county, drainage districts, and the school district.

In 1918, the Stone County Courthouse was completed at a cost of $ 29, 515. 18, and is still in use today, after several renovations.

The Wharf at Rivertown, a $ 60 million renovation of the Philadelphia Electric Company ( PECO )' s generating plant, which was originally built in Chester in 1918, has returned the waterfront to the local residents, providing both recreational and office space for new local endeavors.

He offered $ 75, 000 to build a new courthouse if the county seat was moved from Oakville and voters approved the measure in 1918.

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.

* Facscimile of James Hinton: a Sketch, 1918, by Edith Mary Oldham Lees Ellis ( Mrs. Havelock Ellis ); includes photos and chronology of events in his life from 30 of his 54 years

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848 – 1918 ( 1954 ) pp. 228 – 54

* Track & Field ( Boys ): 4th place ( 1918 – 19, 53 – 54 ); 3rd place ( 1961 – 62 ); 2nd place ( 1919 – 20, 21 – 22 )

Although Frank Loomis was an AAU champion in hurdles in 1917 and 1918 and in hurdles in 1920, the main favourite in Antwerpen was John Norton, who had run a new world record of 54. 2 just two months before the Olympics.

A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July – November 1918, including 54 Squadron

There is an interesting detail: the trident depicted on the bank-note was proclaimed as a National Emblem of the UPR only 54 days after its appearing on the bank-note, on March 1, 1918.

** 1888 – 89, 1892 – 93, 1895 – 96, 1896 – 97, 1899 – 1900, 1902 – 03, 1904 – 05, 1914 – 15, 1918 – 19, 1919 – 20, 1945 – 46, 1953 – 54, 1963 – 64, 1985 – 86