What happened October 1918 AD

During October 1918, the pandemic killed an estimate of 195,000 Americans. That's because the United States had a severe shortage of professional nurses, due to the military deployment of large numbers of nurses in the war camps in and outside the country, and they failed to use trained African American nurses.

The Cloquet fire was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States in October, 1918, caused by sparks on the local railroads and dry conditions. The fire left much of western Carlton County devastated, mostly affecting Moose Lake, Cloquet, and Kettle River. Cloquet was hit the hardest by the fires. It was the worst natural disaster in Minnesota history in terms of the number of casualties in a single day. In total, 453 people died and 52,000 people were injured or displaced.

In October 1918, the constitution of the German Empire was reformed to give more powers to the elected parliament.

the Austro-Hungarians failed to break through in a series of battles on the Piave and were finally decisively defeated in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in October.

In October Philadelphia was hit hard with the pandemic influenza outbreak as there ware over 500 dead body held up unburied, some of them hung there for over seven days. Cold-storage plants were utilized as transitory funeral homes, and a manufacturer of trolley vehicles gave 200 packing crates to be utilized as coffins.

Chicago was one of the many other cities across the United States that closed theaters, movie houses, and night schools and public gatherings were prohibited in these cities.

The Armistice of Mudros, signed at the end of October, ended hostilities with the Ottoman Empire when fighting was continuing north of Aleppo.

Defeated on every front, the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros on 30 October 1918.

Constantinople was occupied by combined British, French, Italian, and Greek forces.

On 31 October 1918, the Aster Revolution in Budapest brought Hungarian liberal aristocrat Mihály Károlyi, a supporter of the Allied Powers, to power. The Hungarian Royal Honvéd army still had more than 1.400.000 soldiers when Mihály Károlyi was announced as prime minister of Hungary. Károlyi yielded to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's demand for pacifism by ordering the disarmament of the Hungarian army. This happened under the direction of Béla Linder, minister of war in the Károlyi government. Due to the full disarmament of its army, Hungary remained without a national defence at a time of particular vulnerability.