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1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
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January
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February
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March-April
March 6 — Finnish Air Force founded. The blue swastika is adopted as its symbol as a tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen who donated the first plane. Von Rosen had painted the Buddhist symbol on the plane as his personal lucky insignia.
March 23 — The giant German cannon, the so called Paris Gun begins to shell Paris from 114 km (75 miles) away
March 23 — In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo (William E Robinson, US-born magician) dies during his trick where he was supposed to "catch" two separate bullets – one of them perforates his lung. He dies the following morning in hospital.
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May-July
July 13 — The National Czechoslovak Committee was established.
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August-October
August — "Spanish Flu" Influenza becomes pandemic; over twenty-five million people die in the following six months (almost two times as many as died during the war).
August 1 — Emma Susan Daugherty Banister becomes the first female sheriff in the United States following the death of her husband, John Riley Banister.
August 30 — Strike of 20,000 London policemen with demands of increased pay and union recognition.
October 18 — Washington Declaration proclaimed the independent Czechoslovak Republic.
October 30 — Martin Declaration was published demanding embodying Slovakia into the forming Czech state.
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November
November 8 — German army withdraws its support of the Kaiser
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December
December 1 — New voting laws in Sweden: votes no longer dependent on taxable assets; one person, one vote.
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Unknown dates
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January
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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Deaths
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Nobel prizes
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