The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
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31 March 1918
Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
11 November 1918
Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne to end WWI. The Armistice of 11 November…
21 February 1918
The last surviving Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. The Carolina Parakeet was the only parrot species native to the eastern United…
11 November 1918
Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in Compiègne to end fighting on the Western front during World War I. The last day of…