Sep 01 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

Sep 02 Capt. Bellenden S. Hutcheson (cdn. Army Medical Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Drocourt-Quèant, France

Sep 30 Prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France

Sep 02 Prv. John Francis Young (87th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Arras, France

Sep 02 Australians attack and seize Mont St Quentin, France

Sep 26 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I

Sep 02 Sgt. Arthur G. Knight (10th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Villers-lez-Cagnicourt, France

Sep 27 Lt. George Fraser Kerr (3rd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France

Sep 30 Lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service

Feb 01 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)

Feb 08 "Stars &Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, first published

Feb 15 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt the Gregorian calendar

Feb 14 USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar

Feb 22 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia

Feb 01 The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

Feb 09 Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA

Feb 03 Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service

Feb 05 First US pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W Thompson

Feb 05 Separation of church &state begins in USSR

Feb 24 Estonia declares independence from Russia

Feb 15 First WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland

Feb 16 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)

Feb 06 Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote

Feb 26 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604

Feb 21 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine

Feb 08 HMS Boxer, a British 'A' Class destroyer, of around 300 tons, built by Thorneycroft at Chiswick, London, and completed in 1894, sunk in the English Channel after a collision with the SS St.Patrick in bad weather.

Apr 15 First Marine Aviation Force formed at Marine Flying Field, Miami, FL

Apr 08 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force

Apr 08 Establishment of the Repatriation Department

Apr 17 The birth of William Holden, American actor

Apr 25 Australians drive Germans from Villers-Bretonneux, France

Apr 04 Battle of Somme, ends

Apr 13 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital

Apr 09 Latvia proclaims independence

Apr 04 Food riot in Amsterdam

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