18 April is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (109th in Leap Year s). There are 257 days remaining.
- 1506 - The Cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
- 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen Consort of Poland .
- 1775 - Two Lantern s were hung from the Steeple of the Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts . 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.
- 1797 - Battle Of Neuwied resulted in the victory of French under General Louis Lazare Hoche against Austria ns under General Wermecek .
- 1880 - A F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri , killing 99 people and injuring 200.
- 1899 - St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria .
- 1906 - An Earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, destroys much of San Francisco, California . (See 1906 San Francisco Earthquake )
- 1906 - The '' Los Angeles Times '' runs a front-page story on the Azusa Street Revival , launching Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
- 1912 - The '' RMS Carpathia '' arrives in New York Harbor with the 706 survivors of the '' Titanic '' disaster.
- 1915 - Early French Aviator and a Fighter Aircraft pilot Roland Garros was shot down and glided to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I .
- 1923 - Yankee Stadium , "The House that Ruth Built", opens.
- 1934 - The first Washateria opens in Fort Worth, Texas .
- on Tokyo occurs.
- 1942 - Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France .
- , Germany , leaving nothing standing.
- 1946 - The League Of Nations is dissolved.
- 1949 - The Republic Of Ireland Act comes into force.
- 1954 - Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt .
- 1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that Poet Ezra Pound be released from an Insane Asylum .
- 1961 - CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
- 1974 - Prime Minister Pakistan , Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry Port .
- 1974 - Italian Prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades .
- 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia ) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President .
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- 1983 - A Suicide Bomber Destroys The United States Embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , killing 63 people.
- 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 .
- 1992 - General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic Of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul .
- 1993 - President Of Pakistan , Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves the National Assembly and dismisses Cabinet.
- 1996 - In Lebanon , 102 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre ).
- 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia , Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519 )
- 1580 - Thomas Middleton , English dramatist (d. 1627 )
- 1590 - Ahmed I , Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617 )
- 1605 - Giacomo Carissimi , Italian composer (d. 1674 )
- 1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst Zu Schwarzenberg , Austrian field marshal (d. 1820 )
- 1772 - David Ricardo , English economist (d. 1823 )
- 1797 - Adolphe Thiers , French statesman (d. 1877 )
- 1819 - Franz Von Suppé , Austrian composer (d. 1895 )
- 1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq De Boisbaudran , French scientist (d. 1912 )
- 1857 - Clarence Darrow , American attorney (d. 1938 )
- 1863 - Leopold Graf Berchtold , Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (d. 1942 )
- 1864 - Richard Harding Davis , American author (d. 1916 )
- 1874 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic , Croatian writer (d. 1938 )
- 1880 - Sam Crawford , baseball player (d. 1968 )
- 1882 - Leopold Stokowski , Polish conductor (d. 1977 )
- 1888 - Duffy Lewis , baseball player (d. 1979 )
- 1897 - Ardito Desio , Italian topographer and mountaineer (d. 2001 )
- 1902 - Giuseppe Pella , Prime Minister Of Italy (d. 1981 )
- 1902 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the seventh and last '' Rebbe '' (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Judaism (d. 1994 )
- 1904 - Pigmeat Markham , American comedian (d. 1981 )
- 1905 - George H. Hitchings , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1998 )
- 1907 - Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian-born composer (d. 1995 )
- 1917 - Ty LaForest , Canadian baseball player (d. 1947 )
- 1918 - Cliff Hillegass , American publisher (d. 2001 )
- 1921 - Jean Richard , French actor (d. 2001 )
- 1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , American musician
- 1924 - Henry Hyde , American politician
- 1927 - Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist
- 1936 - Tommy Ivo , American race car driver
- 1939 - Thomas J. Moyer , Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
- 1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 1940 - Robert N. Kucey , Canadian author
- 1945 - Margaret Hassan , Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004 )
- 1946 - Hayley Mills , English actress
- 1947 - Kathy Acker , American author (d. 1997 )
- 1947 - Dorothy Lyman , American actress, director, producer
- 1947 - Cindy Pickett , American actress
- 1947 - James Woods , American actor and poker player
- 1947 - Herbert Mullin , American serial killer
- 1949 - Geoff Bodine , American race car driver
- 1954 - Rick Moranis , Canadian comedian
- 1956 - Anna Kathryn Holbrook , American actress
- 1956 - Eric Roberts , American actor
- 1956 - Melody Thomas Scott , American actress
- 1958 - Malcolm Marshall , West Indian cricketer (d. 1999 )
- 1961 - Jane Leeves , British actress
- 1963 - Eric McCormack , Canadian actor
- 1963 - Conan O'Brien , American comedian
- 1964 - Niall Ferguson , British historian
- 1964 - Rithy Panh , Cambodian film director
- 1966 - Trine Hattestad , Norwegian athlete
- 1967 - Maria Bello , American actress
- 1968 - David Hewlett , Canadian actor
- 1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
- 1969 - Keith R.A. DeCandido , American author
- 1970 - Greg Eklund , American musician ( Everclear )
- 1971 - David Tennant , Scottish actor
- 1971 - Oleg Petrov , Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Haile Gebrselassie , Ethiopian athlete
- 1976 - Melissa Joan Hart , American actress
- 1976 - Fayray , Japanese singer
- 1979 - Vahid Rahbani , Iranian actor and director
- 1979 - Michael Bradley , American basketball player
- 1979 - Matthew Upson , English footballer
- 1979 - Kourtney Kardashian , American Reality Series star
- 1981 - Audrey Tang , Taiwan ese Free Software Programmer
- 1983 - Miguel Cabrera , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- 1989 - Alia Shawkat , American actress
- 2006 - Suri Cruise , daughter of American actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
- 1161 - Theobald Of Bec , Archbishop Of Canterbury
- 1552 - John Leland , English antiquarian (b. 1502 )
- 1556 - Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet (b. 1495 )
- 1567 - Wilhelm Von Grumbach , German adventurer (b. 1503 )
- 1558 - Roxelana , wife of Suleiman The Magnificent
- 1636 - Julius Caesar , English judge
- 1650 - Simonds D'Ewes , English antiquarian and politician (b. 1602 )
- 1674 - John Graunt , English statistician (b. 1620 )
- 1689 - George Jeffreys , British Chief Justice (b. 1648 )
- 1690 - Charles IV, Duke Of Lorraine , general of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 1643 )
- 1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714 )
- 1796 - Johan Wilcke , Swedish physicist (b. 1732 )
- 1802 - Erasmus Darwin , English physician and botanist (b. 1731 )
- 1873 - Justus Von Liebig , German chemist (b. 1803 )
- 1898 - Gustave Moreau , French painter (b. 1826 )
- 1935 - Panait Istrati , Romanian writer (b. 1884 )
- 1936 - Ottorino Respighi , Italian composer (b. 1879 )
- 1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral. (b. 1884 )
- 1945 - John Ambrose Fleming , English physicist and electrical engineer (b. 1849 )
- 1945 - Ernie Pyle , American journalist (b. 1900 )
- 1947 - Josef Tiso , Slovakian leader (b. 1887 )
- 1955 - Albert Einstein , German-born Jewish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879 )
- 1964 - Ben Hecht , American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1894 )
- 1967 - Karl Miller , German footballer (b. 1913 )
- 1996 - Piet Hein , Danish mathematician and inventor (b. 1905 )
- 1996 - Bernard Edwards , American musician and record producer (b. 1952 )
- 1998 - Terry Sanford , American politician (b. 1917 )
- 2002 - Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian explorer (b. 1914 )
- 2002 - Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and wrestler (b. 1938 )
- 2003 - Edgar F. Codd , English computer scientist (b. 1923 )
- 2003 - Daijiro Kato , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976 )
- 2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara , first Prime Minister Of Fiji and President Of Fiji (b. 1920 )
- 2005 - Sam Mills , American football Linebacker (b. 1959 )
April 17 - April 19 - March 18 - May 18 – Listing Of All Days
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