Apr 20 The Canadian Government calls up men from ages of 20 to 22 for military service.

Apr 01 In Alberta government declares total prohibition of alcoholic beverages. "the demon RUM"

Apr 04 Battle of Somme ends

Apr 01 HMS Falcon, a Royal Navy 'C' Class destroyer sunk in collision in the North Sea with the trawler John Fitzgerald.

Apr 27 Lt. George Burdon McKean (14th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gavrelle France

Apr 01 England's Royal Flying Corps replaced by Royal Air Force

Apr 04 HMS Bittern, a British 'C' Class destroyer, built by Vickers at Barrow in Furness and completed in 1897, sunk in collision off Portland Bill, Dorset after colliding with the SS Kenilworth.

Apr 21 "Red" Baron Manfred von Richtofen, killed in WW I

Apr 01 In Britain, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Force amalgamate to form the Royal Air Force.

Apr 03 House of Representatives accepts American Creed written by William Tyler

Apr 04 Cabinet passes wartime order-in-council stipulating that every male between 16 and 60 be regularly employed.

Apr 25 The birth of Ella Fitzgerald, US jazz singer

Apr 23 USS Stewart destroys German submarine off France

Nov 20 By order in Council P.C. 2854 the management of the Canadian Government Railways is entrusted to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Northern Railway Co. On the same day the Government takes over the Canadian Northern Railway and appoints a new Board of Directors.

Nov 07 The birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist

Nov 09 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I

Nov 10 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski

Nov 11 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)

Nov 03 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves

Nov 06 Republic of Poland proclaimed

Nov 16 Hungarian People's Republic declared

Nov 01 97 die in NYC subway's worst accident

Nov 07 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets

Nov 09 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic

Nov 14 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President

Nov 15 Victory' day celebrated in Britain to mark the ending of the First World War

Nov 11 Germany and the Allies sign the armistice, in a railway carriage in the Compiegne forest

Nov 12 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic

Nov 18 Latvia declares independence from Russia

Nov 03 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I

Nov 07 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

Nov 01 Sgt. Hugh Cairns (46th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Valenciennes, Belgium

Dec 13 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany

Dec 01 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown

Dec 04 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes (Yugoslavia) proclaimed

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