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1918

1 July 20 – Francis Lupo, American soldier (born ________)

2 ________ – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of the Italian Republic

3 Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in ________, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

4 ________ – Jeff Chandler, American actor (d.

5 Donald Regan, American Treasury Secretary and ________ (d.

6 ________ – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

7 ________, American musician (d.

8 ________ – The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established.

9 Katla erupts in Iceland, from ________ – 4 November

10 ________ – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President (d.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace (pictured) of Catherine the Great?
  • the original Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured), which was signed on February 16, 1918, is still being searched for by historians?
  • when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5, 1918, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
  • the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
  • the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
  • Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918?
  • during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah (pictured)?
  • Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
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