WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1918
Find out what all happened August to 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)

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

A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. (12. October 1918)

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

The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. (30. October 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)

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus. (1. October 1918)

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

San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico. (11. October 1918)

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

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

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

Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. (26. October 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)

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

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

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

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

Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia. (5. September 1918)