News - Memories -
Culture - from 1918
- (in no particular order) -
- German Ace "The Red Baron" shot down
and killed - Soviets sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
with Central Powers - Germans launch major offensives in
France - German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
and later flees to Holland - First World War end at 11th hour of
11th day of 11th Month - Influenza pandemic ("Spanish Flu"),
1918-1919, kills 20-40 million worldwide
- Japanese hold Vladivostok
until 1922
U.S. Events
-
Daylight Saving Time goes into effect
(March)
- New York's worst
subway
accident kills 92 and injures 100 after a train jumps a track
in Brooklyn at 30 mph (five times the speed limit) (Nov. 2).
