March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death November 12, 1918
The temperature on November 12, 1918 was between -0.4 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
September 29 » Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
October 12 » A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
December 14 » The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote.
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