Events Date 1918 March | History by KabAstro

Malone's 44 Goal Season

Mar 2 Joe Malone goes scoreless in Montreal Canadiens' 5-3 season-ending loss to Toronto Arenas; finishes the first NHL season with 44 goals, a record that stands until 1944-45

Mar 3 Facing internal counterrevolutionary pressures and external German offensive, Bolsheviks forced to sign harsh Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and Austria
Mar 3 Richard Goering's "Seeschlacht" premieres in Berlin
Mar 4 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Mar 4 US Army mess cook Private Albert Gitchell of Fort Riley, Kansas becomes the first documented military case of Spanish flu; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million [some sources cite date as March 11]

1918: A group of Americans in California with a message for their fellow countrymen

Mar 6 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
Mar 7 H Carroll & J McCarthy's musical "Oh, Look!" premieres in NYC

Distinguished Service Medal

Mar 7 President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal

Mar 7 World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany
Mar 9 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
Mar 9 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
Mar 9 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
Mar 11 Conservationists John Merriam, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn found "Save the Redwoods League" - a non-profit forest conservation land trust in San Francisco, California founded

Moscow Soviet Capital

Mar 12 Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet Leader Vladimir Lenin

Mar 13 1st NHL championship: Toronto Arenas beat Montreal Canadiens, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
Mar 13 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

Trotsky Controls Army

Mar 13 Leon Trotsky gains control of the Red Army

Mar 14 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched in San Francisco
Mar 16 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
Mar 17 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford

Niles US Champion

Mar 17 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles

Figure Skater and Tennis Player Nathaniel Niles

Mar 18 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
Mar 18 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
Mar 19 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
Mar 19 US adopts Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act, a federal law implementing standard time (and daylight saving time) and defining five time zones for the United States
Mar 21 World War I: Germany launches Somme offensive
Mar 23 Alick Wickham dives 200' into Australia's Yarra River
Mar 23 German forces advance 14 miles to the Somme River (WW1)
Mar 23 Germany begins using long-range gun, the 'Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz' ('Emperor William Gun'), aka 'Paris Gun' to shell Paris from Crépy-en-Laonnais, 75 miles away; over several days, 303 rounds kill 256 and wound over 600
Mar 23 Lithuania proclaims independence
Mar 25 Belarusian People's Republic is established
Mar 27 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania
Mar 30 Stanley Cup, Mutual Street Arena, Toronto, ON: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 2-1 for a 3-2 series victory; first series contested by the new NHL
Mar 31 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect

Historical Events in March 1918