Timeline Saturday 9 November 1918

Events on Saturday 9 November 1918 6

• 1880 – 1918 Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Died 9 November 1918, aged 38 French poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a leading champion of Cubism and coiner of the term 'Surrealism', died of the Spanish flu in Paris two days before the Armistice. He had earlier been wounded in the head while serving at the front. His experimental poetry collections, including Calligrammes, influenced a generation of avant-garde writers.
• 1888 – 1918 Wilhelm II Last German Emperor Wilhelm II pursued aggressive foreign policies and led Germany during World War I before abdicating in 1918.
• 1918 Abdication of Wilhelm II End of the German monarchy Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated during the German Revolution, ending the German Empire and monarchy.
• 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates German Revolution topples the Hohenzollern monarchy Amid mutinies, strikes, and revolutionary uprisings across Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the throne and fled to the Netherlands, ending the German Empire. Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed a republic in Berlin the same day. The collapse of the monarchy paved the way for the Weimar Republic and Germany's request for an armistice two days later.
• 1918 – 1996 Spiro Agnew (1918-1996) Died 17 September 1996, aged 77 Spiro Agnew served as the 39th Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon before resigning in 1973 amid a criminal investigation into bribery and tax evasion. He pleaded no contest to a single charge and left office in disgrace. He spent his later years as a businessman largely out of public life.
• 1918 The Kaiser abdicates Spa, Belgium Wilhelm II was told the army would no longer follow him, and fled to the Netherlands the next morning. He lived there until 1941.