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Major Events of 1918

 

  • Battle of Marne
  • Battle of Argonne Forest
  • German Army Mutinies, Wilhelm II Abdicates, War Ends
  • Wilson announces the Fourteen Points
  • Poland declared independent
  • U.S. sends troops to Russia
  • Armistice signed in Europe

    Sports

    World Series: Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Philies Series: 4-2

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    HABER, FRITZ, Germany, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Fritz-Haber-Institut) fŸr physikalische Chemie und Electrochemie, Berlin-Dahlem, b. 1868, d. 1934: "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"

    Literature
    The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Peace
    The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Physiology or Medicine
    The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Physics
    PLANCK, MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG, Germany, Berlin University, b. 1858, d. 1947: "in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta"

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Drama
    Jesse Lynch Williams... "Why Marry"

    Fiction
    Ernest Poole... "His Family"

    History
    James Ford Rhodes... "A History of the Civil War"

    Public Service
    "New York Times"

     

     

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