WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened June to December 1918

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

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. (4. December 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 Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. (22. June 1918)

A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established. (28. October 1918)

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

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

U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. (21. 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 German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19. (29. October 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)

The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. (27. December 1918)

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

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

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

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. (1. December 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)

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

The short-lived Banat Republic is founded. (1. November 1918)

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

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