WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened August to November 1918

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

The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. (7. November 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)

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

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. (11. November 1918)

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

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. (9. November 1918)

Latvia declares its independence from Russia. (18. November 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)

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

Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (23. November 1918)

Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. (13. October 1918)

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

A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles. (21. November 1918)

Poland declares its independence from Russia. (3. November 1918)

Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. (25. November 1918)

The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario, and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air. (10. November 1918)

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

Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia. (21. November 1918)