LIFE 1918
Historical Highlights from 1918 :
- The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and Daylight Saving Time goes into effect.
- Russia switches from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar; the date skips from February 1 to February 14.
- The Spanish Flu (influenza) becomes pandemic; over 30 million people die. The next pandemic, COVID, happens just over a century later.
- Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps.
- Moscow becomes the capital of Soviet Russia.
- “The Red Baron”, WWI’s most successful fighter pilot, dies in combat.
- U.S. Army forces skirmish with Mexican Carrancistas at Nogales, Arizona, in the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil.
- The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in NJ kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.
- World War I ends.
- Oral Roberts, American neo-Pentecostal televangelist, is born.
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Life Magazine – January 3, 1918 (# 1836) – Police Crackdown
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Life Magazine – January 10, 1918 (# 1837) – War Souvenirs
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Life Magazine – January 17, 1918 (# 1838) – Aviation and flying
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Life Magazine – January 24, 1918 (# 1839) – Orphan puppy
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Life Magazine – January 31, 1918 (# 1840) – Norman Rockwell
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Life Magazine – February 7, 1918 (# 1841) – Love Aloft
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Life Magazine – February 14, 1918 (# 1842) – Valentine’s Day
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Life Magazine – February 21, 1918 (# 1843) – Loss of Tuscania
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Life Magazine – February 28, 1918 (# 1844) – Dogs in war effort
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Life Magazine – March 7, 1918 (# 1845) – Mismatched couple
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Life Magazine – March 14, 1918 (# 1846) – First aid dog in war
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Life Magazine – March 21, 1918 (# 1847) – Easter
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Life Magazine – March 28, 1918 (# 1848) – Hijinks with Police
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Life Magazine – April 4, 1918 (# 1849) – Spring
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Life Magazine – April 11, 1918 (# 1850) – Ready for Spring
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Life Magazine – April 18, 1918 (# 1851) – Norman Rockwell – Baseball
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Life Magazine – April 25, 1918 (# 1852) – Cowgirl in Spring
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Life Magazine – May 2, 1918 (# 1853) – Bomb at Life offices
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Life Magazine – May 9, 1918 (# 1854 ) – Liberty Bonds
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Life Magazine – May 16, 1918 (# 1855) – Maxfield Parrish – Liberty & Armed Forces
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Life Magazine – May 23, 1918 (# 1856) – Sweetheart away at war
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Life Magazine – May 30, 1918 (# 1857) – Norman Rockwell – American soldiers welcome in Europe
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Life Magazine – June 6, 1918 (# 1858) – Knitting for servicemen
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Life Magazine – June 13, 1918 (# 1859) – Norman Rockwell – Soldier mending
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Life Magazine – June 20, 1918 (# 1860) – Fishermen with mine in net
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Life Magazine – June 27, 1918 (# 1861) – Norman Rockwell – School recitation
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Life Magazine – July 4, 1918 (# 1862) – War Games
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Life Magazine – July 11, 1918 (# 1863) – Navy and sailors
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Life Magazine – July 18, 1918 (# 1864) – Death of John Ames Mitchell, founder of Life
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Life Magazine – July 25, 1918 (# 1865) – Father across the ocean
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Life Magazine – August 1, 1918 (# 1866) – Nurse writing love letter for patient
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Life Magazine – August 8, 1918 (# 1867) – Corn and scarecrow
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Life Magazine – August 15, 1918 (# 1868) – Norman Rockwell – Sad ladies waiting for men to return from war
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Life Magazine – August 22, 1918 (# 1869) – 1,250,000 American men in Europe at war
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Life Magazine – August 29, 1918 (# 1870) – Soldier and his girl
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Life Magazine – September 5, 1918 (# 1871) – Service banner
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Life Magazine – September 12, 1918 (# 1872) – Save gas for war effort
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Life Magazine – September 19, 1918 (# 1873) – Signals with flags and tail
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Life Magazine – September 26, 1918 (# 1874) – Norman Rockwell – On to Berlin
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Life Magazine – October 3, 1918 (# 1875) – Mines in shipping lanes
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Life Magazine – October 10, 1918 (# 1876) – Charles Dana Gibson – Liberty Loans
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Life Magazine – October 17, 1918 (# 1877) – Meatless days
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Life Magazine – October 24, 1918 (# 1878) – Allies
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Life Magazine – October 31, 1918 (# 1879) – German rat caught in trap
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Life Magazine – November 7, 1918 (# 1880) – Norman Rockwell – American soldiers mothered in Europe
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Life Magazine – November 14, 1918 (# 1881) – German submarines sinking ships
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Life Magazine – November 21, 1918 (# 1882) – The War is Won!
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Life Magazine – November 28, 1918 (# 1883) – Norman Rockwell – Happy military men
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Life Magazine – December 5, 1918 (# 1884) – Christmas
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Life Magazine – December 12, 1918 (# 1885) – Defeated Germans
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Life Magazine – December 19, 1918 (# 1886) – Norman Rockwell – American soldier with French “mother”
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Life Magazine – December 26, 1918 (# 1887) – Peace rises in the East
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