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- Sep 9 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
- Sep 10 Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs players threaten to boycott the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
- Sep 11 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 2-1 at Fenway Park for 4-2 series win; Sox 5th WS title
- Sep 12 WWI: US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
- Sep 13 Train accident at Weesp Neth, kills 42
- Sep 14 WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
- Sep 20 Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
- Sep 26 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
- Sep 29 WWI: Allied forces score a decisive breakthrough of Hindenburg Line
Victory in Battle
Oct 1 World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks
- Oct 6 US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
Sgt. Alvin York Kills 25 German Soldiers
Oct 8 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans
- Oct 10 Baden's Geisz forms government
- Oct 11 Major tsumani shakes Caribbean
- Oct 12 Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people
- Oct 15 British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
- Oct 17 De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens
- Oct 17 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
- Oct 18 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Oct 18 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
- Oct 18 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
End of World War I
Oct 20 In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions
Stonehenge
Oct 26 Cecil Chubb gives prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation
Historic Event
Oct 28 Tomáš G. Massaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
- Oct 28 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Tomáš Masaryk as its 1st president
- Oct 29 German sailors refuse to obey orders to fight British naval forces and lead a revolt in the naval ports of Wilhelmshaven, beginning the German Revolution
- Oct 30 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
- Oct 30 WWI: Turkey signs an armistice with the Allies, agreeing to end hostilities at noon on 31 October
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Oct 31 Spanish flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week
- Oct 31 Short-lived Banat Republic founded in territory where Romania, Hungary and Serbia meet
- Nov 1 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
- Nov 1 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
- Nov 3 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
- Nov 3 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
- Nov 3 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
- Nov 4 The Allied armistice with Austria-Hungary, signed 3 November, goes into effect
- Nov 6 Republic of Poland proclaimed
- Nov 6 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
- Nov 6 WWI: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
Historic Invention
Nov 7 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
- Nov 7 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed
- Nov 7 Soviet dramatic play "Mystery-Bouffe" by Vladimir Mayakovsky premieres in Petrograd
- Nov 7 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
- Nov 7 Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a revolutionary uprising spreads throughout Germany
- Nov 8 Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
Historic Event
Nov 9 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I
- Nov 9 Following the collapse of Germany in World War I, the Weimar Republic of Germany is proclaimed
- Nov 10 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands
Historic Event
Nov 10 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Piłsudski
- Nov 10 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
- Nov 11 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
- Nov 11 Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
- Nov 11 Poland declares independence
The War's Over, But Don't Get Too Excited
Nov 11 WWI Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"
- Nov 12 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
- Nov 13 Prince Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicates
- Nov 13 Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Nov 13 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
- Nov 16 Hungarian People's Republic declared
- Nov 17 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
- Nov 17 German troops evacuate Brussels
- Nov 18 Latvia declares independence from Russia
- Nov 18 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
- Nov 21 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
- Nov 21 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia, Poland
- Nov 21 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
- Nov 22 Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
- Nov 22 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
- Nov 22 Marshal Józef Piłsudski becomes 1st President (dictator) of Poland
- Nov 22 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
- Nov 24 Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
- Nov 26 The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
- Nov 28 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates
- Nov 28 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania
- Nov 29 Serbia annexes Montenegro
- Dec 1 Danish parliament passes an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown
- Dec 1 Yugoslavia declares independence with a monarchy proclaimed in Belgrade
Conference of Interest
Dec 4 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France
Music Premiere
Dec 14 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in NYC
- Dec 14 David Loyd George's coalition Government wins a clear majority in the UK general election
- Dec 14 Sinn Féin candidates win 73 of 105 Irish seats in UK general election, though all will refuse to take seats in Westminster, instead meeting at a Dail Eireann in Dublin
- Dec 15 American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting
Boxing Title Fight
Dec 16 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
- Dec 16 German troops evacuate Finland, give over Kiev in the Ukraine to revolutionary forces and pull back from Estonia as Bolshevik forces move in
- Dec 17 A conference of workers' and soldiers' councils take control of German government in Berlin, until elections in January selects new national assembly
- Dec 19 Robert Ripley begins his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
Historic Event
Dec 20 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees" premieres in NYC
- Dec 20 The Allies turn their attention to Bolshevik expansion in the East, landing troops in Crimea and Latvia
- Dec 21 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
- Dec 26 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
- Dec 26 After spending Christmas with American troops in France, Wilson goes to London for preliminary discussions about the forthcoming peace conference
- Dec 27 The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
Sports History
Dec 28 Montreal's Georges Vezina becomes the first NHL goalie to record an assist during the Canadiens’ 6-3 win over the Toronto Arenas
Historic Event
Dec 30 John E Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover
- Dec 31 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager; reach World Series but lose in the "Black Sox" betting scandal; Gleason not involved