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.

In 1917, Sun Yat-sen moved his base of operations to Guangzhou, and Chiang joined him in 1918.

Like many college students who joined the Armed services during the war, he received a degree in absentia in 1918.

In the spring of 1918, he joined the Yugoslav section of the Russian Communist Party.

Weber joined the worker and soldier council of Heidelberg in 1918.

In October 1918, Romania joined the war again and by the end of the war, the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires had disintegrated ; governing bodies created by the Romanians of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina chose union with the Kingdom of Romania, resulting in Greater Romania.

In 1918, Slovenes joined Yugoslavia, while the west of the country was annexed to Italy.

In 1918 he joined the Red Army, although his father Mikhail supported the opposite side.

In the spring of 1918 he left Metro and joined Bluebird Productions, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, where he met Irving Thalberg.

He joined the German forces during World War I 1916 as an artilleryman, fought in Romania and was seriously injured near Ypres in 1918.

From October 1918 he joined the Red Army, mainly working as a recruiter and propaganda writer.

He joined the British Army in 1918 as part of the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers ( Jewish Legion ) part of Chaytor's Force ( following the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 ).

In January, 1918 he left France and moved to the city of Moscow, Russia where he married a Russian woman and joined the Bolshevik Party.

The Chicago-born Pipp then joined the New York Yankees for the 1915 season, and would play 136 or more games for them every season until 1925 ( except 1918, when his playing was curtailed by injury ), hitting. 282 with a little power, even after the end of the " dead ball " era.

A young Louis Armstrong also joined the band, and the two of them were on the boats for three years ( from 1918 to 1921 ).

As a member of the Progressive People's Party ( which had joined the Democratic People's Party ( Germany )), he worked at the end of 1918 on the founding of the German Democratic Party.

Renner was always interested in politics and in 1896 he joined the Social Democratic Workers ' Party of Austria ( SDAP ), representing the party in the National Council ( Reichsrat ) from the 1907 elections till its dissolution in November 1918.

Bradley joined the 19th Infantry Division in August 1918, which was scheduled for European deployment, but the influenza pandemic and the armistice prevented it.

In 1918, the region of Vojvodina proclaimed its secession from Austria-Hungary to unite with the pan-Slavic State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ; the Kingdom of Serbia joined the union on 1 December 1918, and the country was named Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

In early 1918, after the United States entered World War I, Pickford joined the United States Navy.

In 1918 ( though some sources state 1922 ), he joined forces with his elder brother Walter, and Marty Bloom ( born Martin Blumenthal, 1893-1974 ), to form The Melrose Brothers Music Company, a publishing house and music store on the South Side of Chicago.

In a last-ditch effort to save the studio, Essanay joined in a four-way merger orchestrated by Chicago distributor George Kleine in 1918.

Although the force was scaled back to avoid antagonizing the United States, more than 70, 000 Japanese troops joined the much smaller units of the Allied Expeditionary Force sent to Siberia in 1918.

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

Category: History of the United States ( 1865 – 1918 )

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

Category: History of the United States ( 1918 – 1945 )

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

By 1918 the use of the iris to begin and end sequences was starting to decrease in the United States, though in Europe it was just starting to become fashionable.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

Germany led the Central Powers in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) against France, Great Britain, Russia and ( by 1917 ) the United States.

In his book In the Fourth Year published in 1918 he suggested how each nation of the world would elect, " upon democratic lines " by proportional representation, an electoral college in the manner of the United States of America, in turn to select its delegate to the proposed League of Nations.

With no viable career options, Bogart followed his love for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918.

* 1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General ( d. 2005 )

* 1918 – Paul B. Fay, American businessman and navy officer, United States Secretary of the Navy ( d. 2009 )

* 1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.

Category: History of the United States ( 1918 – 1945 )

Category: History of the United States ( 1865 – 1918 )

In 1918, at the Sixth Annual Convention, Ginzberg, as the acting president, declared that United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism stood for ‘ historical Judaism ’ and thus elaborates:

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

*, the proposed naval name and designation for a motorboat the United States Navy planned to take over in 1918 but never actually acquired

Category: History of the United States ( 1918 – 1945 )

* 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.

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

* 1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt ( d. 1918 )