What happened on April 18? There are more than 260 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 18
April 18 is the 109th day of the year 2024. There are 257 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 16th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Otway, Ohio 45657 sunrise occured at 06:49 AM and sunset occured at 08:14 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 286 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 18
- 1025Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
- 1506The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid.
- 1518Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1689Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 1738Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
- 1775American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- 1797The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
- 1831The University of Alabama is founded.
- 1848American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
- 1857“The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
- 1864Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
- 1880An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
- 1881Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
- 1897The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1899The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1902Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1906An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 1909Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 1912The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- 1915French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- 1923Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- 1924Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- 1930BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- 1936The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1942Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1942World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
- 1943World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
- 1945Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1946The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1949The aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
- 1954Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 195529 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1958A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
- 1961CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
- 1961The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
- 1974The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
- 1980The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
- 1981The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
- 1983A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1988The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- 1992General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- 1996In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
- 2007A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
- 2007The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
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Who Were Born On April 18?
- 1480Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
- 1580Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (d. 1627)
- 1590Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
- 1605Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (d. 1674)
- 1740Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (d. 1810)
- 1771Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
- 1797Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (d. 1877)
- 1813James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
- 1819Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
- 1819Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
- 1838Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
- 1857Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
- 1857Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
- 1863Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942)
- 1864Richard Harding Davis, American author (d. 1916)
- 1874Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
- 1874Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
- 1877Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
- 1879Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962)
- 1880Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
- 1882Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
- 1888Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1889Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 1970)
- 1893Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
- 1897Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
- 1901Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
- 1901Elene Akhvlediani, Georgian artist (d. 1975)
- 1901László Németh, Hungarian writer (d. 1975)
- 1902Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
- 1902Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
- 1904Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
- 1905George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1907Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995)
- 1911Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born American physicist
- 1915Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
- 1917Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (d. 1981)
- 1917Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
- 1918Clifton Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
- 1918Gabriel Axel, Danish film director
- 1918Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter
- 1918Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
- 1919Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1921Jean Richard, French actor (d. 2001)
- 1922Barbara Hale, American actress
- 1924Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
- 1924Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1925Bob Hastings, American actor
- 1925Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)
- 1927Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
- 1930Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
- 1934George Shirley, American tenor
- 1934James Drury, American actor
- 1935Costas Ferris, Greek director
- 1936Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
- 1937Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
- 1939Thomas J. Moyer, American judge
- 1940Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate
- 1940Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
- 1942Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (d. 1970)
- 1942Robert Christgau, American music critic
- 1942Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
- 1944Robert Hanssen, American spy
- 1945Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
- 1946Hayley Mills, English actress
- 1946Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1999)
- 1947Cindy Pickett, American actress
- 1947Dorothy Lyman, American actress
- 1947Herbert Mullin, American serial killer
- 1947James Woods, American actor
- 1947Jerzy Stuhr, Polish film director and actor
- 1947Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
- 1949Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
- 1950Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer
- 1950Paul Callery, football player
- 1951Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician
- 1951Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
- 1953Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian
- 1956Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress
- 1956Eric Roberts, American actor
- 1956Melody Thomas Scott, American actress
- 1956Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress
- 1958Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (d. 1999)
- 1961Jane Leeves, British actress
- 1961John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit
- 1961Steve Lombardi, American wrestler
- 1962Jeff Dunham, American comedian
- 1963Conan O'Brien, American comedian
- 1963Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
- 1964Jim Ellison, musician (d. 1996)
- 1964Mark Berry, aka Bez, dancer in Happy Mondays
- 1964Niall Ferguson, British historian
- 1964Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director
- 1965Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey
- 1966Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
- 1966Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
- 1967Maria Bello, American actress
- 1968David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
- 1968Mary Birdsong, American actress
- 1969Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author
- 1969Princess Sayako of Japan
- 1969Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer
- 1970Esther Schweins, German actress and comedienne
- 1970Greg Eklund, American musician
- 1970Rico Brogna, American baseball player
- 1970Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon
- 1970Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek television host
- 1971David Tennant, Scottish actor
- 1971Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1971Russell Payne, English writer
- 1971Samantha Cameron, business executive; wife of UK Prime Minister David Cameron
- 1971Tamara Braun, American actress
- 1972Eli Roth, American film director
- 1972Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist
- 1973Brady Clark, American baseball player
- 1973Derrick Brooks, American football player
- 1973Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete
- 1973Jad Abumrad, American radio host and producer
- 1974Edgar Wright, British director
- 1974Mark Tremonti, American musician
- 1974Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer
- 1976Fayray, Japanese singer
- 1976Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress
- 1976Justin Ross, American politician
- 1976Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
- 1976Sean Maguire, British actor
- 1977Cindy Taylor, Paraguayan supermodel and actress
- 1977Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player
- 1979Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver
- 1979Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
- 1979Matthew Upson, English footballer
- 1979Michael Bradley, American basketball player
- 1979Nuria Fergó, Spanish singer
- 1980Priit Võigemast, Estonian actor
- 1980Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981Brian Buscher, American baseball player
- 1981Milan Jovanović, Serbian footballer
- 1982Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)
- 1982Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
- 1982Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player
- 1982Simone Farina, Italian footballer
- 1983Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer
- 1983Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984America Ferrera, American actress
- 1985Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
- 1985Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
- 1985Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver
- 1986Billy Butler, American baseball player
- 1986Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
- 1986Maurice Edu, American soccer player
- 1987Brett Deledio, Australian Rules football player
- 1987Danny Guthrie, English footballer
- 1987Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model
- 1987Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
- 1988Alexander Hauck, South African-born German rugby player
- 1989Alia Shawkat, American actress
- 1989Jessica (Jessica Jung), American-born South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
- 1989Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1990Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer
- 1994Moises Arias, American actor
- 2007Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan
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Who Died On April 18?
- 1161Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1552John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
- 1556Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
- 1558Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1567Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
- 1636Julius Caesar, English judge
- 1650Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
- 1674John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
- 1689George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)
- 1732Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
- 1794Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- 1796Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
- 1802Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
- 1859Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary & General (b. 1814)
- 1873Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
- 1898Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
- 1906Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
- 1917Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
- 1935Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
- 1936Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
- 1942Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
- 1942Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
- 1943Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
- 1945Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
- 1945John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
- 1945Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
- 1947Jozef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler
- 1949Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1951António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
- 1955Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
- 1958Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
- 1963Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
- 1964Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1965Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
- 1967Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
- 1974Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. 1895)
- 1976Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer (b. 1911)
- 1986Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b.1892)
- 1988Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
- 1990Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1990Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (b. 1969)
- 1992Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (b. 1917)
- 1993Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
- 1995Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
- 1995Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (b. 1927)
- 1996Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
- 1996Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
- 1998Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2002Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
- 2002Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
- 2003Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
- 2004Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
- 2005Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
- 2007Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)
- 2009Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
- 2011Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
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