April 18
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'''April 18''' is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Mar – '''April''' – May |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |colspan=4| | 1 | 2 | 3 |- style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |- style="text-align:center;" | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |- style="text-align:center;" | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |- style="text-align:center;" | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 || |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangementAll days |} ==Events== *1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland. *1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride. *1906 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake, estimated magnitude 7.8, destroys much of San Francisco, California. *1934 - The first "washateria" opens in Fort Worth, Texas. *1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs. * 1942 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France. *1945 - A thousand-bomber raid on the small island of Heligoland leaves nothing standing; 128 people, mostly anti-aircraft crew, were killed. *1946 - The League of Nations dissolves. *1947 - While destroying German naval installations on Heligoland, the British Royal Navy detonate 6800 tons of explosive in an attempt to demolish the island. *1949 - The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force. *1954 - Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt. *1958 - A federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound should be released from an insane asylum. *1972 - The Roland Corporation founded in Osaka. *1974 - Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades. *1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being. *1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. *1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in retaliation for the April 14 mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. The one-day action is the world's largest naval battle since World War II. *1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 in one inning of a test cricket match, beating Garfield Sobers's previous record of 365. *1996 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre). *2002 - A new order of insects, ''Mantophasmatodea'', is announced. * 2003 - News crew from KSTP, Minneapolis films unguarded explosives at Al_Qa_Qaa ==Births== *1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519) *1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617) *1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Baroque era composer *1819 - Franz von Supp, Croatian - Austrian composer (d. 1895) *1857 - Clarence Darrow, attorney (d. 1938) *1864 - Richard Harding Davis, author (d. 1916) *1874 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938) *1880 - Sam Crawford, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1968) *1882 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor and founder of the American Symphony Orchestra (d. 1977) *1888 - Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (d. 1979) *1893 - Jo Swerling, writer (d. 1964) *1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer and mountaineer (d. 2001) *1901 - Lszl Nmeth, author (d. 1975) *1904 - Pigmeat Markham, comedian (d. 1981) *1921 - Jean Richard, actor (d. 2001) *1921 - Barbara Hale, actress *1928 - Otto Piene, painter *1940 - Robert N. Kucey, author *1946 - Hayley Mills, actress *1947 - James Woods, actor (''Ghosts of Mississippi'', ''Salvador'', ''Any Given Sunday'') *1949 - Geoff Bodine, automobile racer *1954 - Rick Moranis, comedian *1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook, soap opera actress * 1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, soap opera actress *1961 - Jane Leeves, actress *1963 - Conan O'Brien, comedian *1966 - Trine Hattestad, javelin thrower *1979 - Michael Bradley, NBA basketball player *1983 - Miguel Cabrera, MLBbaseball player ==Deaths== *1674 - John Graunt, statistician *1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice, presided over the "Bloody Assizes" (b. 1648) *1873 - Justus von Liebig, chemist (b. 1803) *1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900) *1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright, screenwriter (b. 1894) *1955 - Albert Einstein, scientist (b. 1879) *1996 - Piet Hein, mathematician, inventor (b. 1905) *2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the ''Kon-Tiki'' expedition (b. 1914) *2003 - Edgar F. Codd, Founder of theory of relational databases (b. 1923) *2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976) *2004 - Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1920) ==Holidays and observances== * Good Friday (2003) * Easter (1976) ---- April 17 - April 19 - March 18 - May 18 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:04-18 bg:18 април ca:18 d'abril cs:18. duben cy:18 Ebrill da:18. april de:18. April et:18. aprill es:18 de abril eo:18-a de aprilo fr:18 avril fy:18 april ko:4월 18일 hr:18. travnja io:18 di aprilo is:18. aprl it:18 aprile he:18 באפריל lt:Balandžio 18 lb:18. Abrll hu:prilis 18 nl:18 april ja:4月18日 no:18. april oc:18 d'abril pl:18 kwietnia pt:18 de Abril ro:18 aprilie ru:18 апреля sa:१८ एप्रिल sl:18. april fi:18. huhtikuuta sv:18 april tr:18 Nisan uk:18 квітня zh:4月18日
