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September 4: 4,500 U.S. soldiers land in Archangel, North Russia
September 12–16: Battle of St. Mihiel; first U.S. led offensive in World War I proves largely successful
September 14: Socialist leader Eugene Debs is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for violating the Espionage Act by giving an anti-war speech.
September 26: Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins; the battle in which more Americans were killed than in any battles of the Civil War or World War II
October 6: Germany requests armistice; Allies refuse request
October 28: Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria-Hungary
October 30: Ottomans agree to armistice
October 31: In one week, influenza virus kills 21,000 in the United States |