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In 1918
President: Woodrow Wilson
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall
Population: 103,208,000
Federal spending:
$12.68 billion
Consumer Price Index: 15.1
Unemployment: 1.4%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Russian revolutionaries execute the former czar and
his family. Russian Civil War between Reds (Bolsheviks)
and Whites (anti-Bolsheviks); Reds win in 1920.
Allied troops (U.S., British, French) intervene in
Russia (March). Background: World War I
Second Battle of the Marne (July-Aug.)
German Kaiser abdicates (Nov.); hostilities cease on
the Western Front.
Japanese hold Vladivostok until 1922.
Worldwide Spanish influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920,
nearly 20 million are dead. In U.S. alone, 500,000
perish.
Daylight Saving Time goes into effect (March).
New York's worst subway accident kills 92 and injures
100 after a train jumps a track in Brooklyn at 30 mph
(five times the speed limit) (Nov. 2).
Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction, Drama and Poetry debut.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps
you going.
- Anonymous |
