June 1918
Portal history | Portal Biographies | Current events | Annual calendar
◄ |
19th century |
20th century
| 21st century
◄ |
1880s |
1890s |
1900s |
1910s
| 1920s
| 1930s
| 1940s
| ►
◄ |
1914 |
1915 |
1916 |
1917 |
1918
| 1919
| 1920
| 1921
| 1922
| ►
◄ |
March 1918 |
April 1918 |
May 1918 |
June 1918 |
July 1918 |
August 1918 |
September 1918 |
►
| Contents: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
This article covers current news and events at the time - June 1918 .
Daily events
June 1st
- Birth of Juan Alfredo Arzube Jaramillo , Auxiliary Bishop in Los Angeles († 2007 )
- Birth of Gavin Astor , British nobleman and publisher († 1984 )
- Birth of Hans Merkle , German football coach († 1993 )
- Birth of Herbert A. Strauss , German-American historian († 2005 )
2th of June
- Birth of Ruth Atkinson , Canadian comic writer and cartoonist († 1997 )
3rd of June
- Birth of Robert Swink , American film editor († 2000 )
June 4th
- The Batumi conference ends with a substantial shift of territory in the Caucasus in favor of the Ottoman Empire. In the Treaty of Batumi , the newly formed states of Armenia and Georgia bought with their renunciation not only to the ceded by Soviet Russia in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk areas of Kars, Ardahan and Batumi, but additional areas of Tiflis and Yerevan including the railway line from Alexandropol to Julfa made peace with the Turks.
- Birth of Marcelo Koc , Argentine composer († 2006 )
- Birth of Jan van Dijk , Dutch composer and pianist († 2016 )
June 5th
- Birth of Theodore Wilbur Anderson , American mathematician († 2016 )
- Birth of Branimir Sakač , Croatian composer († 1979 )
6th of June
- Birth of Martin Esslin , British theater scholar († 2002 )
8th June
- The German expedition to the Caucasus reaches Georgia.
- The Komutsch government is formed in Samara .
- Birth of Åke Gustav Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player († 1982 )
- Birth of Gunther Philipp , Austrian actor († 2003 )
- Birth of Robert Preston , American actor († 1987 )
June 9th
- Another German offensive on Matz begins (until June 14).
- Birth of John Hospers , emeritus American professor of philosophy († 2011 )
June 10th
- The SMS Szent István is sunk in the Adriatic by an Italian torpedo boat.
- Birth of Barry Morse , British actor († 2008 )
- Birth of Patachou , French singer and actress († 2015 )
June 11th
- US Marines land in Murmansk.
- Birth of Ruth Hughes Aarons , American table tennis player († 1980 )
- Birth of Marianne Laqueur , German computer scientist († 2006 )
June 12
- Tbilisi is occupied by German troops.
- Start of an Austro-Hungarian offensive on the Tonale Pass .
- Birth of Samuel Z. Arkoff , American film producer and director († 2001 )
June 13th
- Armistice between the People's Republic of Ukraine and Soviet Russia
- Birth of Helmut Lent , aviator in the German Air Force in World War II († 1944 )
14th June
- Turkish troops occupy Tabriz .
15th June
- The Second Battle of the Piave begins (until June 23).
- Birth of François Tombalbaye , President of Chadian († 1975 )
June 16
17th of June
- Birth of Ajahn Chah , Buddhist monk († 1992 )
- Birth of Harry F. Bisel , American oncologist († 1994 )
18th of June
- General Louis Félix Marie Franchet d'Espèrey is appointed Allied Commander in Chief on the Macedonia Front.
- Self-sinking of the Russian Black Sea Fleet so as not to fall into German hands.
- Birth of Morris B. Abram , American lawyer († 2000 )
- Birth of Pearl Chertok , American harpist, music teacher and composer († 1981 )
- Birth of Jerome Karle , American physical chemist († 2013 )
- Birth of Franco Modigliani , Italian economist and Nobel Prize winner († 2003 )
June 22
- Birth of Cicely Saunders , English doctor († 2005 )
June 24th
- Birth of Hans-Günther Assel , German political scientist († 2002 )
June 26th
- Birth of Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann , German folklorist († 1993 )
June 27th
- The British hospital ship Llandovery Castle is sunk off the Irish coast by SM U 86 .
June 28th
- Birth of Friedrich Falch , Austrian politician († 2002 )
June 29th
- US troops have reached the Italian front.
- Birth of Ernst Leisi , Swiss professor of English and author († 2001 )
- Birth of Richard Edmund Lyng , American politician († 2003 )
See also
- June (for month name)
- Chronology of the First World War, June 1918
- Nekrolog July 1918 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in June
- Category for memorial days, holidays or action days in June
Web links
Commons : June 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