WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1918
Find out what all happened February to October 1918

Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. (1. February 1918)

An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007. (4. October 1918)

First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. (24. June 1918)

The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later. (16. May 1918)

The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. (19. March 1918)

SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. (5. February 1918)

British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote. (6. February 1918)

The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. (17. July 1918)

The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. (21. February 1918)

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver. (2. August 1918)

King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. (3. October 1918)

World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. (26. September 1918)

World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium. (9. May 1918)

Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). (4. July 1918)

Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania. (27. March 1918)

First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. (24. April 1918)

Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. (20. April 1918)

World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. (21. August 1918)

Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. (13. October 1918)

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. (17. August 1918)