1918

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

The First World War ended on the eleventh hour of November 11 as Germany sought an armistice and its empire collapsed. A devastating influenza pandemic spread worldwide, killing tens of millions, and Russia's tsar and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

A Year in Review

Best Picture

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Nobel · Literature

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World Series

Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Philies

No. 1 Song

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Top TV

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Academy · Actor

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Sports Highlights

Champions of 1918

Champions

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

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

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

Literature

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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

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" googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1429421741137-1'); }); © 1996-2025