Historical Events in August 1918

Aug 4 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann

Aug 5 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England

Aug 6 Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France during WWI
Aug 6 World War I: Second Battle of the Marne ends
Aug 8 World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines
Aug 9 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"
Aug 12 WWI: Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front
Aug 13 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany
Aug 15 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
Aug 16 US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops
Aug 17 British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan
Aug 17 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000

Aug 19 Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" premieres in NYC

Aug 20 WWI: Britain opens offensive on Western front
Aug 24 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
Aug 24 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
Aug 26 W Smith & F Bacon's "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC
Aug 27 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
Aug 27 Dr Joseph L Johnson named as US minister to Liberia
Aug 27 Spanish flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the US

Aug 28 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly

Aug 29 Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
Aug 30 Czechoslovakia forms independent republic

Aug 30 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia