1918

1918

Spanish flu pandemic.

Russia changes its national capital from Petrograd to Moscow.

Magician William Robinson (fakee-Chinee stage name Chung Ling Soo) dies while performing his "catching a bullet" trick. Actually, he does catch it, but with his lung.

Having lost Finland last year, all hell breaks loose for Russia: Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia all declare their independence from the empire.

Habsburg empire ceases to exist.

born: Theodore Sturgeon, Mickey Spillane, Spike Milligan, William Holden, Richard Feynman, Jack Elam

died: Claude Debussy

Bela Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin