• the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace (pictured) of Catherine the Great?
• the original Act of Independence of Lithuania (pictured), which was signed on February 16, 1918, is still being searched for by historians?
• when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5, 1918, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
• the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
• the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
• Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918?
• during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah (pictured)?
• Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
  

Facts on topics related to 1918

1967

• conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
• on Dagen H, or H Day, (Sunday September 3, 1967) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
• the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
• the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?

1995

• French lighthouse Phare de la Vieille (pictured) was operated manually as late as 1995?
• Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
• Chandra Prakash Mainali, who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971, later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994-95?
• Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
• fourteen people died in the Cave Creek disaster when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand in 1995?
• in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?
• on September 21, 1995, statues of the Hindu pantheon (Ganesha pictured) in countries around the world were reported to be drinking spoonfuls of milk offered to them by worshippers?
• the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist?

1956

• 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?
• Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
• Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru?
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963?
• American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non-legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965?
• former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
• in their 1956 book Union Democracy, social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels' iron law of oligarchy?
• on January 8, 1956, five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in "Operation Auca"?
• the British Percival P.74 helicopter project (pictured) was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?

March 4

• on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
  

2007

• Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007?
• Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
• Robert Adley became on December 10, 2007, the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary?
• a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3, 2007?
• former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented (pictured) on 3 March 2007?
• in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?
• on November 3, 2007, Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?
• the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet, awarded on July 17, 2007, is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
• the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
• the second line of the Valenciennes tram (pictured) will open in 2007, but will reuse the platform of a railway line that opened in 1838?

January 1

• a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
• before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
• in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1, 1940?
• many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?

2004

• 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
• Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
• Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
• Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004?
• Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
• Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
• a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix?
  
• an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
• at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004?
• in 2004, the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures?

1990

• Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?
• Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
• Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
• in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
• in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?
• the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$100 million, on the September 14, 1990 drawing?

1989

• 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion (pictured) onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
• American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
• Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?
• Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
• Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
• Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989?
• a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake?
• despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
• over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam?
• the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?

1962

• "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
• Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
• MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
• a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
• a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
• although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails?
• the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
• the film David and Lisa, shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing?
• the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?

1916

• in 1916, Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I-era anti-German sentiment?
• prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
• the British plan for the battle of Bazentin Ridge in 1916, was dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs"?
• the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
• the Vickers machine gun was the standard weapon on all British and French military aircraft after 1916?

1917

• German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy?
• Bearcat Stadium of Northwest Missouri State University, originally opened in 1917, is the oldest stadium of any NCAA Division II school?
• Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland?
• Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom?
• the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
• the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London?
• the American's Creed was written in 1917 as an entry into a patriotic contest, and was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year?
• the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?

1915

• French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915?
• Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?
• in 1878, Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later?
• the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
• the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington was the first major volcanic eruption to occur in the U.S. since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California?
• the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?

1913

• John S. Collins, who came to southern Florida to grow vegetables and coconuts on a barrier island, built 2.5 mile long wooden Collins Bridge across Biscayne Bay in 1913 which led to the development of Miami Beach?
• on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?

1923

• Dolmabahçe Palace was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1923?
• Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?
• the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
• the first U.S. National Christmas Tree (pictured) was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?

1914

• in 1914, Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film?
• on October 5, 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?

1920

• Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
• Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?
• in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
• in addition to 8,000 Scouts, the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
• the football game between Offenburger FV and the SC Freiburg on 28 March 1920 lasted for over three hours?
• the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana, at its opening on March 1, 1920?
• the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?

1919

• Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
• Chick Gandil was the ringleader of the 1919 Black Sox scandal in American baseball?
• Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919?
• William Garwood, an American silent film actor, starred in 149 films in under 10 years—between 1909 and 1919?
• in 1919, the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising, in which over 500,000 workers took part?
• the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity?
• the Astrakhan Cossack army existed from 1737 until 1919 when they were defeated alongside their White Russian allies during the Russian Civil War?
• the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw holds the remains of a Polish soldier killed at the Battle of Lvov in 1919?
• the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23, 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament?
• when he was promoted to president of the Great Northern Railway in 1919, Ralph Budd was the youngest American railroad president up to that date?