April 18

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

• David Tennant

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• Melissa Joan Hart
• James Woods

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• America Ferrera

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• Amanda Sthers

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• Maria Bello

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• Eric Roberts

  Movie Actor.

• Britt Robertson

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• Eli Roth

  American film director; he earned public...

• Eric McCormack

  Canadian actor.

• Hayley Mills

  British actress, an appealing juvenile...

• Alia Shawkat

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• Régis Wargnier

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• Sean Maguire

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• David Hewlett

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• Edgar Wright

  British director.

• Barbara Hale
• James Drury

  American actor.

• Esther Schweins

  German actress and comedienne.

• Wendy Barrie

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• Niall Ferguson

  Scottish historian and academic.

• Fredro Starr

  American rapper and actor (Onyx).

• Vanessa Kirby
• Rick Moranis

  Canadian comedian.

• Clarence Darrow

  American attorney, famed for the "Scopes...

• Poonam Dhillon

  Indian actress.

• Michael Higgins

  Politician.

• Bryce Johnson

  TV Actor.

• Moises Arias

  American actor.

• Avril Angers

  actress (Brass Monkey).

• Poonam Dhillon

  Indian model and actress.

• Virginia O'Brien

  American actress and singer (d. 2001).

• Bob Hastings

  American actor (d. 2014).

• Karen Mayo-Chandler

  English actress and model (d. 2006).

• Clive Revill

  Wellington, New Zealand -- Actor (Legend...

• Cindy Pickett

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• Michael Andrew

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• Jerzy Stuhr

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• Kourtney Kardashian

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• Conan O'Brien

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• Zazie (singer)
• Nadine de Rothschild
• Laurent Baffie

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• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Movie Actress.

• Suri Cruise

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• Olivier Besancenot

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• Melody Thomas Scott
• Charles Pasqua

  French politician, minister of interior...

• Ira von Fürstenberg
• Sayako Kuroda

  Japanese daughter of Akihito.

• Jane Leeves

  British actress.

• Moisés Arias

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• Jean-François Balmer

  French Swiss actor who has worked...

• Jessica (entertainer)
• Francky Vincent
• Adriane Galisteu
• Steven Stayner

  American missing child, he was kidnapped...

• Jean Richard

  French actor (Born 1921).

• Nathan Sykes

  Irish singer (The Wanted).

• 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,...

• Chloe Bennet

  TV Actress.

• Cindy Taylor

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• Derek Rydall

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• André Thirion

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• 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
• Grigory Sokolov

  Russian pianist and composer.

• Ted Reinstein

  American TV personality, best-known for...

• Miguel Cabrera

  Baseball Player.

• Hannes Androsch

  Austrian politician, a tax adviser and...

• Miklos Rozsa

  Hungarian-born American composer (Born...

• Celia Melton

  American professional artist, a recent...

• Milan Jovanovic
• Alain Joly
• Stefano Marcoaldi

  Italian journalist and President of...

• Gabriel Axel

  Danish-French actor director and...

• 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
• Arturo Belano
• Kevin Sireau
• Reeve Carney

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and...

• Anicet Turinay
• Charlie Tuna

  American broadcaster and announcer from...

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Famous Deaths

• Pierre Desproges

  French humorist, famous for his...

• Betty Compson

  Actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net),...

• Ernie Pyle

  American writer, journalist and...

• Emory Johnson

  Director (Phantom Express, Shield of...

• Ben Hecht

  American director producer and...

• 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.

• Robert D Webb

  Director / actor (Love Me Tender,...

• Robert William Paine

  Architect, dies at 88.

• John Ambrose Fleming

  English physicist and electrical...

• Josef Tiso

  Slovakian leader (Born 1887), Nazi...

• Henrietta Kreis

  third of famous Wallenda aerialists to...

• 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...

• Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17)

  dies at age 73.

• Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski

  Composer, dies at 58.

• Ignazio Guidi

  Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies...

• Ernest T Pyle

  British/US newscaster, killed by...

• Rob Touber [Robert J Noordervliet)

  chansonnier/director, dies at age 38.

• John Lee Mahin

  screenwriter, dies of emphysema at age...

• Marcel Dassault [Bloch]

  French airplane builder, dies at age 94.

• Michael Leander Farr

  record producer, dies at age 55.

• Kalim Siddiqui

  Islamic campaigner, dies at age 62.

• Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena

  Mexican electrical engineer who was the...

• Panait Istrati

  Romanian writer of French and Romanian...

• Vladimir Serbsky

  Russian psychiatrist and academic (d....

• Percy Julian

  holder of more than 138 chemical...

• Wahoo McDaniel

  American football player and...

• Arturo Frondizi

  Argentinian lawyer and politician 32nd...

• Charles Ebbets

  president of MLB Brooklyn Dodgers...

• Theo Mann

  Actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies...

• Korysis

  Prime Minister of Greece, commits...

• Leonard Bloomfield

  Linguist / philosopher.

• Richard Runciman Terry

  Musicologist.

• Florrie Forde

  Music hall artist.

• Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

  Historian.

• I Yamamoto

  Admiral of Japanese fleet.

• Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire actor (Inkwartiering)

  dies at age 70.

• Eugen Herrigel

  Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany...

• Richard B Goldschmidt

  German zoologist (butterflies), dies.

• Maurice-Gustave Gamelin

  French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at...

• Florence Randall

  model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at age...

• Arthur P Smith

  US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at...

• Ken Oosterbroek

  South African press photographer, shot...

• Edward Barker

  cartoonist, dies at age 46.

• 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).

• Seaborn M Denson

  Composer, dies at 82.

• 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...

• Maurice Gamelin

  French army commander in chief at the...

• Frankie Howerd

  English comedian and comic actor whose...

• Ottorino Respighi

  Italian composer, one of the best known...

• Aleksander Mitt

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• Victoria O'Keefe

  British actress (Born 1969).

• Mahmoud Younis

  Suez Canal nationalization engineer...

• Karl Miller

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• Roza Makagonova

  Russian actress (Born 1927).

• Will Hay

  English actor director and screenwriter...

• Piet Hein

  Architect / Poet / Mathematician /...

• Benny Leonard

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• Marcel Pagnol

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• Brook Berringer

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
• 2012 Fun. - We Are Young
• 2011 Katy Perry - E.T.
• 2010 Rihanna - Rude Boy
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• 2008 Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
• 2007 Timbaland - Give It To Me
• 2006 Daniel Powter - Bad Day
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Ashanti - Foolish
• 2001 Janet - All For You
• 2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
• 1999 TLC - No Scrubs
• 1998 K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life
• 1997 Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down
• 1996 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
• 1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
• 1994 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last
• 1991 Wilson Phillips - You're In Love
• 1990 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• 1989 Madonna - Like A Prayer
• 1988 Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go
• 1987 Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
• 1986 Prince - Kiss
• 1985 USA for Africa - We Are The World
• 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
• 1983 Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
• 1982 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
• 1981 Daryl Hall & John Oates - Kiss On My List
• 1980 Blondie - Call Me
• 1979 Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
• 1978 Bee Gees - Night Fever
• 1977 Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way
• 1976 Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady
• 1975 Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
• 1974 MFSB - TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)
• 1973 Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
• 1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
• 1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
• 1970 The Beatles - Let It Be
• 1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
• 1968 Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
• 1967 Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
• 1966 The Righteous Brothers - (You're My) Soul And Inspiration
• 1965 Wayne Fontana - Game Of Love
• 1964 The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love
• 1963 The Chiffons - He's So Fine
• 1962 Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
• 1961 The Marcels - Blue Moon
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
• 1958 The Champs - Tequila
• 1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
• 1957 Perry Como - Round And Round
• 1955 Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Gotye Featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Stone Temple Pilots - Between The Lines