WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened May to September 1918

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

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

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

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan. (10. September 1918)

World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. (28. September 1918)

World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice. (29. September 1918)

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

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

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

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence. (28. May 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (1. June 1918)

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