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next turn year 1918

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1918

May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

May 9 – WWI – Second Ostend Raid: The British Royal Navy unsuccessfully attempts, for a second time, to seal off the German U-boat base there.

May 14 – The Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill, is instituted by Cape Town Mayor Sir Harry Hands. It will inspire the introduction of the two-minute silence in November 1919.[7]

May 15

The United States Post Office Department begins the world's third regular airmail service, between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C..[8]

May 16 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is approved by the U.S. Congress.

May 20 – The small town of Codell, Kansas is hit for the third year in a row, on the same date, by a tornado.

May 21 – The United States Army Aviation Section is separated from the Signal Corps, and divided into the Division of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production.

May 27 – WWI: The Third Battle of the Aisne commences.

June[edit]

Main article: June 1918 June–August – The "Spanish 'flu" becomes pandemic.[10] Over 30 million people die in the following 6 months.

June 1 – WWI: The Battle of Belleau Wood begins.

June 4 – RMS Kenilworth Castle, one of the Union-Castle Line steamships, collides with her escort destroyer HMS Rival while trying to avoid her other escort, the cruiser HMS Kent.

June 5 – The Afrikaner Broederbond, a confidential cultural organisation, is founded in Johannesburg.

June 8 – V603 Aquilae, the brightest nova observed since Kepler's of 1604, is discovered. . June 12 .

June 16 – The Declaration to the Seven, a British government response to a memorandum issued anonymously by seven Syrian notables, is published.

June 22 – Suspects in the Chicago Restaurant Poisonings are arrested, and more than 100 waiters are taken into custody for poisoning restaurant customers with a lethal powder called Mickey Finn.

June 29 – Bronx International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries opens in New York; Brazil is the only international exhibitor and the exposition closes at the end of the season.[11]

July[edit] Main article: July 1918

July 4 – Mehmed VI succeeds as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the death of his half-brother Mehmed V (Reşâd, who has reigned since 1909), himself reigning until the Sultanate is abolished in 1922.

July 9 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101.

July 12 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up off Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

July 14 – The film The Glorious Adventure is released in the United States, featuring Mammy Lou, who becomes one of the oldest people ever to star in a film, at a claimed age of 114.

July 17 WWI: RMS Carpathia (famed for rescuing survivors of the RMS Titanic) is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland, by Imperial German Navy submarine U-55; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.[12] . August[edit]

Main article: August 1918 August 2 – North Russia Intervention: British anti-Bolshevik forces occupy Arkhangelsk.

August 3 – WWI: Australian hospital ship HMAT Warilda is torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on passage from Le Havre to Southampton by German submarine SM UC-49 with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board.[13]

August 8 – WWI: Battle of Amiens – British, Canadian and Australian troops begin a string of almost continuous victories, the 'Hundred Days Offensive', with an 8-mile push through the German front lines, taking 12,000 prisoners. German General Erich Ludendorff later calls this the "black day of the German Army".[14]

August 21 – WWI: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

August 23 – The Bessarabian Peasants' Party is created.

August 27 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of WWI fought on United States soil.

August 30 20,000 London policemen strike for increased pay and union recognition.

Moisei Uritsky, the Petrograd head of the Cheka, is assassinated.

other things

the german imperial army collapses desertions and mass surrenders become common theres nothing to stop the allied advance into the Rhineland

revolution erupts in germany sweeping through the country causing Kaiser Wilhelm to abdicate

the german republic is declared

the empire that Bismarck had built is no more...