April 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 18. From 1900 until now. April 18 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Kourtney Kardashian (1979), Conan O'Brien (1963) and Zazie (singer) (1964). Several movies were released around April 18 over the years, such as Citizen Kane in 1941 directed by Orson Welles and Yojimbo in 1961 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Holidays

Saint Werner (d. 1287)
Saint Galdino (d. 1176)
Saint Perfecto (d. 850)
Saint Agia (Aya) (d. 707)
Saint Timon
Saint Ursmarus (d. 713)
Blessed Idesbald van der Gracht (d. 1167), patron saint of fishermen and Flemish nobility
Saint Eusebius (d. 526)
Saint Apollonius (d. 185/6)
Marie de l'Incarnation (1566 ? 1618)
The Cheat's Cheatday on homestarrunner.com
Zimbabwe ? Independence Day.
Saint Emma
Iran - Army Day
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Events

2019 2019 Makran massacre: 14 people are killed in a gun attack on a bus in Pakistan. (CNN)
2018 Syrian Civil War: Israeli involvement in the Syrian Civil War: It is revealed a recent airstrike mounted by Israel against an airbase in Syria targeted an Iranian Tor missile air defence system. (Haaretz)
2017 The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announces the discovery of eight mummies, 10 colorful sarcophagi, and numerous figurines in a 3,500-year-old tomb near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. (CNN) (Radio New Zealand)
2016 Syrian rebels launch new offensives against government forces in the country's Latakia Governorate and Hama Governorate. Several rebel groups earlier announced they were launching a new battle against government forces in response to claimed violations of the cease-fire agreement, further putting a strain on the Syrian peace process. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2015 April 2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing: A suicide bomber allegedly affiliated with ISIL strikes a bank in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, killing at least 33 and wounding 100. (RT) (CNN) (Reuters), (BBC)
2014 Syrian civil war:: The death toll of children in the entire conflict reaches nearly 15,000. (Turkish Press)
2013 Boston Marathon bombing:: U.S. President Barack Obama visits the city of Boston in the wake of the recent marathon attack. (Los Angeles Times)The Federal Bureau of Investigation posts photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. (BBC) (Reuters) (FBI)A campus police officer is shot dead in his vehicle at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. (ABC News Australia) (Reuters)
2012 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising:
2011 A 16-year-old Israeli boy injured by a Palestinian missile attack on his school bus on April 7 dies. (''BBC'') (''Wikinews'')
2010 The Dow Live Earth Run for Water started on April 18th. The host cities are: Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Chicago, Hong Kong, Jimbaran, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Minneapolis, New York, Lisboa, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapore City, Stockholm, Toronto and Washington, D.C.. (The Independent) (Live Earth)
2009 Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, is sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court. She is released the following month, after an appeals court reduces and suspends her sentence.
2008 A 5.2-5.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Illinois, USA, centered near West Salem, the largest in the region in 40 years, and felt 350 miles away.
2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2006 Hu Jintao arrives in Seattle, Washington, on his first visit to the United States since becoming President of the People's Republic of China in 2003. (CNN).
2005 The largest moving object on Earth, the iceberg B15A in Antarctica has collided with the Drygalski ice tongue, a feature large enough to be included in Antarctic maps. During the collision, a five-kilometre-long section of the ice tongue was broken off. (ESA) (AP) (Link dead as of 04:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC))
2004 The Iranian Vice Speaker of Parliament, Behzad Nabavi, resigns over "violation of public rights". (Payvand News) (Hi Pakistan)
2003 Iraqi Police arrest Saddam Hussein's former finance minister, Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi in Baghdad, and turn him over to U.S. Marines.
2002 The discovery of a new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
1999 "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky plays his final game in the NHL.
1998 The Walt Disney Company launches the Toon Disney cable television network in the USA.
1997 The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
1996 Funny Thing Happened, opens at St. James Theater NYC for 715 performances
1995 Houston Post newspaper folds after 116 years.
1994 Beauty & the Beast opens at Palace Theater, New York City
1993 Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
1992 Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
1991 John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136.
1990 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in the WLAF.
1989 Zimbabwe gains independence
1988 Barbra Streisand records Warm All Over
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
1985 Flyers 3-Isles 0 - Patrick Division Finals - Flyers hold 1-0 lead
1984 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon
1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
1981 Pawtucket and Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from United Kingdom. Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
1979 Real People premieres on NBC TV
1978 US Senate votes to turn Panam� Canal over to Panam� on December 31, 1999.
1977 Side by Side by Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 performances
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten - Ping Golf Open.
1975 John Lennon releases Stand by Me
1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi.
1972 Lost in the Stars opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
1971 Gavaskar makes 220 in second inning versus West Indies after 124 in first.
1969 Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike.
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1965 Consecration of St Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.
1964 Cafe Crown closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
1963 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1.
1962 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1958 NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles
1956 Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
1955 Ankles Aweigh opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 performances
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
1953 Pal Joey closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1951 Make a Wish opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1950 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth.
1948 International Court of Justice opens at The Hague, Netherlands.
1947 Royal Navy detonates 6,800 tons of explosives in an attempt to demolish the fortified island of Heligoland, Germany, thus creating one of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history.
1946 Call Me Mister opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1945 Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
1942 James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities
1941 WWII: Prime Minister of Greece Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide as German troops approach Athens.
1939 Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey.
1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
1935 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas).
1930 BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
1927 Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China.
1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
1925 World's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1924 First crossword puzzle book published (in USA by Simon and Schuster).
1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania.
1922 Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0.
1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colorado.
1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play.
1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1908 Tommy Burns knocks out Jewy Smith in five for heavyweight boxing title.
1907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in the Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1902 Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.
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Famous Birthday

Kourtney Kardashian: American television personality and...
Conan O'Brien: American talk show host picked to...
Zazie (singer)
David Tennant: Scottish actor.
Nadine de Rothschild
Laurent Baffie: French humorist, author, and short-film...
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: Movie Actress.
Suri Cruise: American noted family, first child of...
Melissa Joan Hart
Olivier Besancenot: French far left political figure and...
James Woods: American actor with a gift for playing...
America Ferrera: American actress whose portrayal of the...
Amanda Sthers: French writer also known as Amanda...
Maria Bello: American actress.
Eric Roberts: Movie Actor.
Melody Thomas Scott
Britt Robertson: Movie Actress.
Charles Pasqua: French politician, minister of interior...
Eli Roth: American film director; he earned public...
Ira von Fürstenberg
Sayako Kuroda: Japanese daughter of Akihito.
Jane Leeves: British actress.
Moisés Arias: American actor.
Jean-François Balmer: French Swiss actor who has worked...
Jessica (entertainer)
Eric McCormack: Canadian actor.
Francky Vincent
Hayley Mills: British actress, an appealing juvenile...
Adriane Galisteu
Alia Shawkat: American actress.
Steven Stayner: American missing child, he was kidnapped...
Jean Richard: French actor (Born 1921).
Nathan Sykes: Irish singer (The Wanted).
Régis Wargnier: French film director, film producer,...
Sean Maguire: British young actor who started in the...
Michaël Levinas
Laura Mennell: Canadian actress.
André Bazin: French film theorist, one of cinema's...
Samantha Jade: Pop Singer.
Marie-Élaine Thibert: Canadian singer.
Herbert Mullin: American homicide who killed 13 people,...
David Hewlett: English-Canadian actor director and...
Chloe Bennet: TV Actress.
Edgar Wright: British director.
Derek Rydall: American actor whose films include...
Cindy Taylor: Paraguayan model and actress.
André Thirion: French writer, member of the...
Barbara Hale
François Clerc
John James (actor)
Jochen Rindt: German-Austrian race car driver (Born...
Haile Gebrselassie: Ethiopian runner.
Stefanie Schmid
Yves Dumont
Saad Hariri: Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and...
Angus Lennie: Scottish actor best known for his film...
Natasha Stefanenko
James Drury: American actor.
Grigory Sokolov: Russian pianist and composer.
Esther Schweins: German actress and comedienne.
Ted Reinstein: American TV personality, best-known for...
Miguel Cabrera: Baseball Player.
Hannes Androsch: Austrian politician, a tax adviser and...
Wendy Barrie: British-American actress, a vivacious...
Niall Ferguson: Scottish historian and academic.
Miklos Rozsa: Hungarian-born American composer (Born...
Celia Melton: American professional artist, a recent...
Gabriel Axel: Danish-French actor director and...
Alain Joly
Stefano Marcoaldi: Italian journalist and President of...
Milan Jovanovic
Fredro Starr: American rapper and actor (Onyx).
John Taras
Guy Goffette
Colin Hamer: British ecclesiastic, a Roman Catholic...
Rithy Panh: Cambodian director and screenwriter.
Scott Hartnell: Canadian ice hockey player.
Teddy Taylor: Scottish journalist and politician...
James Steel Scott
Reeve Carney: American singer-songwriter guitarist and...
Kevin Sireau
Arturo Belano
Anicet Turinay
Charlie Tuna: American broadcaster and announcer from...
Geoff Bodine: American race car driver and one of...
Jean Buquet
Herbert Schoeder: German mythologist, philosopher of...
Tamara Braun: American actress.
Albert Simonin: French novelist and screenwriter of the...
Heike Friedrich: in East Germany; swimmer (world record...
Don Ohl
Mathilde Laurent: French perfumer who worked for Guerlain...
Les Pattinson
Eleanor James: English actress and dancer.
Jim Ellison (musician)
Jessica Cambensy
Bob Kaufman
Rabiu Afolabi: Nigerian footballer and manager.
Willie Roaf
Alex Thomson (sailor)
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Famous Deaths

Pierre Desproges: French humorist, famous for his...
Ernie Pyle: American writer, journalist and...
Emory Johnson: Director (Phantom Express, Shield of...
Ben Hecht: American director producer and...
I Yamamoto: Admiral of Japanese fleet.
Leonard Bloomfield: Linguist / philosopher.
Irving Cummings Sr: Actor / director (In Old Arizona), dies...
Albe Vidakovic: Composer, dies at 49.
Piotr F Scharoff: Russ / Italian actor / director...
Masao Oki: Composer, dies at 69.
John Ambrose Fleming: English physicist and electrical...
Josef Tiso: Slovakian leader (Born 1887), Nazi...
Masahiko Kimura: Japanese judoka (Born 1917).
Terry Sanford: American politician (Born 1917).
Edgar F Codd: English computer scientist (Born 1923).
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara: first Prime Minister of Fiji and...
Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire actor (Inkwartiering): dies at age 70.
Ernest T Pyle: British/US newscaster, killed by...
John Lee Mahin: screenwriter, dies of emphysema at age...
Florence Randall: model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at age...
Michael Leander Farr: record producer, dies at age 55.
Kalim Siddiqui: Islamic campaigner, dies at age 62.
Edward Barker: cartoonist, dies at age 46.
Maurice Gamelin: French army commander in chief at the...
Panait Istrati: Romanian writer of French and Romanian...
Ottorino Respighi: Italian composer, one of the best known...
Aleksander Mitt: Estonian speed skater (Born 1903).
Victoria O'Keefe: British actress (Born 1969).
Percy Julian: holder of more than 138 chemical...
Wahoo McDaniel: American football player and...
Arturo Frondizi: Argentinian lawyer and politician 32nd...
Piet Hein: Architect / Poet / Mathematician /...
Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski: Composer, dies at 58.
Betty Compson: Actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net),...
Richard Runciman Terry: Musicologist.
Theo Mann: Actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies...
Korysis: Prime Minister of Greece, commits...
Seaborn M Denson: Composer, dies at 82.
Florrie Forde: Music hall artist.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher: Historian.
Robert D Webb: Director / actor (Love Me Tender,...
Robert William Paine: Architect, dies at 88.
Henrietta Kreis: third of famous Wallenda aerialists to...
Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17): dies at age 73.
Charles Ebbets: president of MLB Brooklyn Dodgers...
Ignazio Guidi: Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies...
Eugen Herrigel: Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany...
Richard B Goldschmidt: German zoologist (butterflies), dies.
Maurice-Gustave Gamelin: French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at...
Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet): chansonnier/director, dies at age 38.
Marcel Dassault [Bloch]: French airplane builder, dies at age 94.
Arthur P Smith: US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at...
Ken Oosterbroek: South African press photographer, shot...
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: American socialite (Born 1875).
Luis Martin: Spanish Superior-General of the Society...
Antonio Oscar Carmona: 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th...
Prince William of Wied: sovereign Prince of Albania (Born 1876).
Meyer Jacobstein: American politician (Born 1880).
Brook Berringer: American football player (Born 1973).
Iccho Itoh: mayor of Nagasaki (Born 1945).
Stephanie Parker: Welsh actress (Born 1987).
Olubayo Adefemi: Nigerian footballer (Born 1985).
George Balanchine: Russian-American dancer, known as one of...
Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena: Mexican electrical engineer who was the...
Frankie Howerd: English comedian and comic actor whose...
Vladimir Serbsky: Russian psychiatrist and academic (d....
Mahmoud Younis: Suez Canal nationalization engineer...
Karl Miller: English journalist and critic (d. 2014).
Roza Makagonova: Russian actress (Born 1927).
Will Hay: English actor director and screenwriter...
Benny Leonard: lightweight boxing champion (1917-25),...
Marcel Pagnol: French playwright, screenwriter and film...
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