WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1918
Find out what all happened July to August 1918

Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales — U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. (27. August 1918)

Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist. (13. August 1918)

Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne. (4. July 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). (8. August 1918)

U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. (21. July 1918)

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. (2. August 1918)

The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621. (12. July 1918)

World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. (15. July 1918)

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

Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history. (9. July 1918)

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. (30. August 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 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)

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. (17. July 1918)

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

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. (13. August 1918)

Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. (29. August 1918)

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

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