January 1918
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This article covers current news and events back then - January 1918 .
Continuous month: the First World War ; The economic crisis of the last months of the war continued in January 1918 .
Daily events
Friday 4th January 1918
- Great Britain: The English hospital ship "Rewa" sinks in the Bristol Channel, probably by running into a mine.
- Namibia: The explorer Reinhard Maack discovers the at least 2000 year old rock carving White Lady in the Brandberg massif .
Tuesday January 8, 1918
- Washington, DC : US President Woodrow Wilson presents fourteen-point program to bring about general peace.
Thursday January 10, 1918
Died:
- Konstantin Jireček , Czech politician, diplomat, historian and Slavist (* 1854 )
- August Oetker , inventor of usable baking powder (* 1862 )
Saturday, January 12, 1918
Died:
- Ottmar Ritter von Angerer , German surgeon (* 1850 )
Born:
- January 12 : Julio Gutiérrez , Cuban composer, conductor and pianist († 1990 )
Monday January 14, 1918
- Karlsruhe : air raid
- North Sea: Forays of light German naval forces in the southern North Sea to the north of the Thames estuary, without contact with the enemy
and following days
- Austria: high point of the January strikes there
Tuesday January 15, 1918
Born:
- David George Kendall , British mathematician and statistician († 2007 )
- January 15 : Gamal Abdel Nasser , Egyptian professional soldier, politician († 1970 )
Saturday 19th January 1918
- Thames: The English training ship "Warspite" burns
- St. Petersburg: Decree on the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly - it is dissolved by force by the Bolshevik government (possibly the end of the February Revolution )
Sunday January 20, 1918
- Istanbul: Advance of the Turkish cruisers "Sultan Javus Selim" (formerly "Goeben") and "Midilli" (formerly "Breslau") against Imbros (today Gökçeada) . The English monitors "Raglan" and "M 28" are destroyed, the "Midilli" sinks (mine hit), the "Sultan JS" temporarily gets stuck in the narrows of Nagara on the way back.
Monday, January 21, 1918
- North Sea: The German mine boats "A 73" and "A 77" are destroyed by mines.
- Mediterranean: The English auxiliary cruiser "Louvain" is torpedoed in the eastern Mediterranean.
Died:
- Emil Jellinek-Mercédès , inventor of the brand name "Mercedes" (cars), Geneva (* 1853)
Tuesday, January 22, 1918
- Ukraine : Mychajlo Hruschewskyj , historian and politician proclaims the first autonomous republic. The country becomes an independent people's republic: Ukrajinska Narodnja Respublika (UNR).
Wednesday January 23, 1918
Born:
- Gertrude Belle Elion , American scientist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine († 1999 )
Died: Johannes Justus Rein , German geographer (* 1835 )
Thursday January 24, 1918
- Berlin / Vienna: The German Empire and Austria-Hungary reject Wilson's Fourteen Points program from
- The French auxiliary cruiser "Corse" is sunk
Saturday, January 26, 1918
- Ireland: The English Cunard steamer " Andania " is torpedoed on the way out not far from the Irish coast. All inmates are saved.
Born:
- Nicolae Ceaușescu , politician and President of Romania ( 1989 )
- Mala Zimetbaum , Jewish resistance fighter, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ( 1944 )
Died:
- Ludwig Edinger , German neurologist (* 1855 )
Sunday January 27, 1918
- Helsinki: The Finnish Civil War begins with the Red Guards occupying key buildings .
Died:
- Charles William Fulton , American politician (* 1853 )
Monday, January 28, 1918
- Germany: January strike - mass strikes against the world war and its effects (in Berlin and other German cities, where the German negotiating commission called for a quick peace agreement in Brest-Litovsk "without annexations and contributions", a democratic right to vote as well as better food supplies and other things become). Appeal by the revolutionary stewards . In the armaments factories in Berlin and the surrounding area, 100,000 workers take part on the first day.
Wednesday January 30, 1918
- The English transport steamer "Minnetonka" (13,528 tons) is sunk
- Paris: First scheduled air raid on the night of January 31 (given reason: to retaliate against enemy air attacks on open German cities outside the area of operations)
Died:
- William Hughes , American politician (* 1872 )
Thursday January 31, 1918
Born:
- Karl Emerich Krämer , German writer († 1987 )
Died:
- Johann Puluj , Ukrainian physicist (* 1845 )
See also
- January (for month name)
- Chronology of the First World War, January 1918
- Nekrolog January 1918 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January
Web links
Commons : January 1918 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
- Chronicle 1918 (Living virtual museum online at dhm.de)
- Digitized newspapers from 1918 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library
- Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, fes, chronology 1918
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures, plans, history of the SS Minnetonka at atlantictransportline.us
- ↑ Dt. Army report Paris as punishment with 14,000 kilograms of bombs occupied by stahlgewitter.com