Jack's Buffalos Full Herd
1918


Obverse
Enlarge  
Reverse
Enlarge  

Coin Details

  

Set Details
Origin/Country:
Design Description:
Item Description:
Grade: NGC AU 58
Owner: Jack Henslee
 
Winning Set: Jack's Buffalos Full Herd
Date Added: 3/10/2017
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

Beautiful coin with pale bronze toning on the obverse.

1918 Historical Highlights

1. "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
2. Britain grants women (30 & over) the vote.
3. In February, a US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany off Ireland.
4. President Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal.
5. World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
6. US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time.
7. World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed.
8. General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
9. William Knapp on Exterminator wins 44th Kentucky Derby.
10. A Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family.
11. World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
12. Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am.
13. US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US while in office.

To follow or send a message to this user,
please log in