In 1918, when the Soviet government moved to Moscow and war conditions were producing extreme shortages, Sovnarkom ordered a reduction of 50 % in the volume of telephone communications in the new capital, to ensure that official needs of the new government would be served.

The GTE Corporation, which had been the largest independent telephone company in the United States until its merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications in 2000, originated when John F. O ' Connell, Sigurd L Odegard and John A. Pratt acquired the Richland Center Telephone Company in 1918.

On December 23, 1918, a group of Red sailors seemed set to storm and take over the Provisional government when the sailors cut all telephone lines from the Chancellor ′ s office to the War Ministry except for a secret one.

Furthermore, in order to release men for the front lines, the Army employed 450 female telephone operators who served overseas, beginning in March 1918 and continuing until the war ended.

* When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly.

From June 1918 until July 1919, the Post Office Department operated the nation's telephone and telegraph services ,< ref >

The Danish telephone company KTAS introduced the automated time service Frøken Klokken in 1939, originally voiced by telephonist Anna Edith Sommer-Jensen ( 1918 – 2008 ).

On 3 September 1918 north west of Lens, France, when operating a telephone in evacuated enemy trenches occupied by his battalion, Corporal McNamara realised that a determined enemy counter-attack was gaining ground.

The spectral theory of compact operators then follows, and it is due to Frigyes Riesz ( 1918 ).

The mine had been rated gaseous in 1918, but at the insistence of the new operators it was rated as non-gaseous although a fireboss was employed and men burned by gas on at least four occasions.

On February 23, 1918, VCheKa sent a radio telegram to all Soviets with a petition to immediately organize emergency commissions to combat counter-revolution, sabotage and speculation, if such commissions had not been yet organized.

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.

* 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.

In 1918, a trip to the south of France was organized by the Polish poet Léopold Zborowski, who had the idea that his artist-friends could sell pictures there to rich tourists.

However, on June 8, 1918, with the armed support of the Czechoslovak Legions, the city was taken by the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, or Komuch, who organized a " democratic counter-revolution ", which at its height encompassed twelve million people.

Maister organized Slovene volunteer forces of 4000 soldiers and 200 officers and in the night of 23 November 1918 seized control of the city of Maribor and the surrounding region of Lower Styria.

In 1918, they were organized into the Gilbert Ward.

The year 1918 saw the birth of organized school basketball at Brashear, and by 1927 the first tournament was held.

It was organized 7-12 July 1918 in the Regular Army in France, as part of the American Expeditionary Forces, for service in World War I.

In 1918, Nestor Makhno organized new chapters of the Anarchist Black Cross as an adjunct to his anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine or Black Army in the territories of Ukraine which they controlled.

The society grew quickly and, in 1918, it became known as Phi Theta Kappa and was organized nationally.

Following the American declaration of war on Germany, on 6 April 1917, I Corps was organized and activated on 15 – 20 January 1918, in the National Army in Neufchâteau, France, the first of several corps-sized formations intended to command divisions of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I.

The second trend emerged amongst the German rank-and-file trade unionists who opposed their unions and organized increasingly radical strikes towards the end of 1917 and the beginning of 1918.

" The mass of the colored drafted men cannot be used for combatant troops ", said a General Staff report in 1918, and it recommended that " these colored drafted men be organized in reserve labor battalions.

Following the Januarstreik in January 1918, a strike demanding an end to the war and better food provisioning that was organized by revolutionaries affiliated with the USPD and officially supported by the party, the USPD quickly rose to about 120, 000 members ; despite harsh criticism of the SPD for becoming part of the government of the newly formed German republic during the Oktoberreform, the USPD reached a settlement with the SPD as the Novemberrevolution began, and even became part of the government in the form of the Rat der Volksbeauftragten (" council of people's deputies "), which was formed on November 10, 1918 and mutually led by Friedrich Ebert and Hugo Haase following the German Revolution.

Lone Girl Scout troops were organized in the Philippines as early as 1918 by American missionaries and servicemen.

As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918.

Russian anarchists were the first organized victims of the CHEKA in April and May 1918.

III Corps was first organized on 16 May 1918 in France.

In 1918, they began Beulah Heights Bible School in Atlanta, and in 1921 they organized an association that became the International Pentecostal Assemblies.

The 10th Division was originally organized in 1918 as a regular army and national army division for World War I.

This group was organized in 1918 by A. W. Rasmussen as the Scandinavian Assemblies of God in the United States of America, Canada and Foreign Lands.

By August 1918 conflicts between the Bolsheviks and their political opponents had led to the banning of most other influential parties-most recently, of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, who had been the Bolsheviks ' principal coalition partner for some time, but had organized a revolt in July because of their opposition to the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty.

* The First United States Army was organized on 10 August 1918 in the Regular Army in France as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, First Army.

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.

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

Under the aegis of the Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law was completed under Benedict XV, who promulgated the Code, effective in 1918.

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

* 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.

The high command under Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled the Reich as they gambled on one last offensive in spring 1918 ( before the Americans could arrive in force ).

In 1918, the historical region of Mesopotamia ( then a province within the Ottoman Empire ) was brought under British rule after the Turkish defeat in World War I.

* 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

* 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.

Beginning to read and discuss the work of Marx with Li and other like-minded radicals at a Marxist Study Group, he eventually " developed rapidly toward Marxism " under Li's tutelage during the winter of 1918 – 19, looking for ways to combine it with ancient Chinese philosophies that would be applicable to modern China.

In 1815, the two Mecklenburgian duchies were raised to Grand Duchies, and subsequently existed separately as such in Germany under enlightened but absolute rule ( constitutions being granted on the eve of World War I ) until the revolution of 1918.

* 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.

NIST has been publishing various forms of what is now the " Handbook 44 " since 1918 and began publication under the current name in 1949.

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.

On 6 September 1918, the Bolshevik militias consolidated under the supreme command of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic ( Revvoyensoviet, Revolyutsionny Voyenny Sovyet ), People's Commissar for War ( 1918 – 24 ), Leon Trotsky, Chairman, and Jukums Vācietis, Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army.

From 1916 to 1918, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring.

The Holy Roman Empire controlled the land for nearly 1, 000 years, and between the mid 14th century and 1918 most of Slovenia was under Habsburg rule.

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.

The territories to the south of Syria and Iraq on the Arabian Peninsula which still remained under Turkish control when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on 30 October 1918 were not explicitly identified in the text of the treaty.

In 1918, Tsaritsyn was besieged by White troops under Ataman Krasnov.

He gave his first piano recital when he was eight years old, and in 1918 was awarded a full scholarship at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, studying under Olivo Krause.

* January 24 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania ( see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time ).