1918

Manfred von Richtofen (the "Red Baron") killed
Czar Nicholas II and family executed
WW I ends - approximately 8.5 million killed
World-wide influenza epidemic erupts - kills 22 million by 1920
Daylight Saving Time introduced in the US
Knute Rockne named head football coach at Notre Dame University
The "Oui-Ja" board craze
Willa Cather's My Antonia
Booth Tarkington's Magnificent Ambersons
1st electric food mixer
Ella Fitzgerald, Mickey Spillane, Leonard Bernstein, Ted Williams, Spiro Agnew, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gamel Abdel Nasser and Billy Graham born
Joyce Kilmer and Claude Debussey die