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President Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech. A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
U.S. troops engage Yaqui Native American warriors in a minor skirmish in Arizona, and one of the last battles of the American Indian Wars between the United States and Native Americans. -
The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31). -
The act made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States" -
The United States Post Office Department (later renamed the United States Postal Service) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC) -
The "Spanish flu" becomes pandemic. Over 30 million people die in the following 6 months. -
The eclipse was viewable across the entire contiguous United States, an event which would not occur again until the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. -
The Boston Red Sox defeat the Chicago Cubs for the 1918 World Series championship, their last World Series win until 2004. -
The SS Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest. -
WWI also considered the Great War ended with Germany signing an armistice agreement with the Allies.