What generation is 1918? Greatest Generation

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About the Generation (1918)

The Greatest Generation (1901-1927): Experienced the Great Depression and World War II, renowned for their resilience, resourcefulness, and strong sense of duty.

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Famous People (Celebrities) Born in 1918

  • Nelson Mandela (Jul 18, 1918)
  • Katherine Johnson (Aug 26, 1918)
  • Sam Walton (Mar 29, 1918)
  • Billy Graham (Nov 7, 1918)
  • Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( 6, 1918)
  • Howard Cosell (Mar 25, 1918)
  • Nipsey Russell (Sep 15, 1918)
  • Ted Williams (Aug 30, 1918)
  • Rita Hayworth (Oct 17, 1918)

What Happened in 1918

  1. Mar 9 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
  2. Mar 12 - Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
  3. Apr 21 - World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France, Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown credited with the kill
  4. Jun 8 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
  5. Jul 17 - The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia
  6. Sep 26 - Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
  7. Oct 1 - World War I: Combined Arab and British force under the Lawrence of Arabia, T. E. Lawrence captures Damascus from the Turks
  8. Oct 31 - Spanish Flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week
  9. Nov 10 - Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
  10. Nov 11 - WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

Top Songs 1918

  1. Tiger Rag - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  2. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (With a Dixie Melody) - Al Jolson
  3. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Charles Harrison
  4. Smiles - Joseph Smith & his Orchestra
  5. Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land - Al Jolson
  6. At the Darktown Strutter's Ball - Arthur Collins & Byron G Harlan
  7. Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There) - Henry Burr
  8. Over There - Enrico Caruso
  9. What Do You Want to Make? - Harry Weldon
  10. Ontem, Ao Luar - Vicente Celestino

Popular Movies 1918

  1. The Outlaw and His Wife - Director: Sjöström, Victor. Country: Sweden.
  2. Stella Maris - Director: Neilan, Marshall. Country: USA.
  3. The Blue Bird - Director: Tourneur, Maurice. Country: USA.
  4. The Sinking of the Lusitania - Director: McCay, Winsor. Country: USA.
  5. Hearts of the World - Director: Griffith, D.W.. Country: USA.
  6. A Black Sherlock Holmes - Director: Phillips, R.W.. Country: USA.
  7. Blue Blazes Rawden - Director: Hart, William S.. Country: USA.
  8. The Bond - Director: Chaplin, Charles. Country: USA.
  9. Der Gelbe Schein - Director: Illés, Eugen / Janson, Victor / Stein, Paul L.. Country: Germany.
  10. A Dog's Life - Director: Chaplin, Charles. Country: USA.

Who Was US President 1918

Woodrow Wilson
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