What Happened In August 1918 In History

Historical Events for August, 1918

• 2nd » Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 2nd » The first general strike in Canadian history 1918 Vancouver general strike known as takes place in Vancouver.
• 8th » World War I: The Battle of Amiens (1918) called Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the Germany named German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
• 11th » World War I: The Battle of Amiens (1918) known as Battle of Amiens ends.
• 13th » Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
• 13th » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) History of BMW BMW GmbH goes public or established as a public company in Germany.
• 17th » Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassination known as assassinated.
• 21st » World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme (1918) or Second Battle of the Somme begins.
• 27th » Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: United States Army U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German Empire German military advisor advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
• 29th » Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
• 30th » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• 31st » World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1918

• 1st » T. J. Jemison, American clergyman and activist (d. 2013)
• 1st » Richard Pearson (actor) or Richard Pearson, Welsh-English actor (d. 2011)
• 3rd » James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (d. 2014)
• 3rd » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999)
• 3rd » Larry Haines, American actor (d. 2008)
• 4th » Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)
• 4th » Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
• 5th » Tom Drake, American actor and singer (d. 1982)
• 6th » Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
• 7th » Poni Adams, American actress (d. 2014)
• 7th » Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)
• 9th » Kermit Beahan, American colonel (d. 1989)
• 9th » Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (d. 1966)
• 9th » Albert Seedman, American police officer (d. 2013)
• 10th » Eugene P. Wilkinson, American admiral (d. 2013)
• 12th » Sid Bernstein, American record producer (d. 2013)
• 12th » Guy Gibson, Indian-English commander and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944)
• 13th » Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006)
• 13th » Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 17th » Evelyn Ankers, Chilean-American actress (d. 1985)
• 17th » Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic
• 18th » Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Almanac Singers) (d. 1961)
• 19th » Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)
• 20th » Jacqueline Susann, American author (d. 1974)
• 21st » Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 22nd » Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004)
• 24th » Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Minister of External Affairs (India) e.g Minister of External Affairs for India (d. 2004)
• 25th » Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1990)
• 25th » Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
• 27th » Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)
• 28th » L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)
• 31st » Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter and composer (d. 1986)

Famous Deaths for August 1918

• 1st » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 10th » Erich Löwenhardt, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 12th » Anna Held, Polish-American actress and singer (b. 1872)
• 12th » William Thompson (archer) known as William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 17th » Moisei Uritsky, Russian politician (b. 1873)
• 22nd » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)

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