WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1918
Find out what all happened May to August 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 It will be repealed less than two years later.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)

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

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

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

The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel. (10. June 1918)

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (26. June 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 1918)

General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. (2. May 1918)

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

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

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)

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

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

Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad. (29. May 1918)

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

The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. (11. May 1918)

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

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