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April 18th, 2007 (April 18 2007) | Event | The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision. | |
April 18th, 2007 (April 18 2007) | Birth | Hayah bint Hamzah, Princess of Jordan | |
April 18th, 2007 (April 18 2007) | Death | Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (born in 1945) | Saki Quotes |
April 18th, 2005 (April 18 2005) | Death | Sam Mills, American football player (born in 1959) | |
April 18th, 2004 (April 18 2004) | Death | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (born in 1920) | Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara Quotes |
April 18th, 2003 (April 18 2003) | Death | Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (born in 1923) | |
April 18th, 2002 (April 18 2002) | Death | Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (born in 1914) | |
April 18th, 2002 (April 18 2002) | Death | Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (born in 1938) | |
April 18th, 1998 (April 18 1998) | Death | Terry Sanford, American politician (born in 1917) | |
April 18th, 1996 (April 18 1996) | Event | In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces accidentally shell the UN compound at Quana. | |
April 18th, 1996 (April 18 1996) | Birth | Alexey Zhigalkovich, Belarusian Singer | |
April 18th, 1996 (April 18 1996) | Death | Brook Berringer, American football player (born in 1973) | |
April 18th, 1996 (April 18 1996) | Death | Bernard Edwards, American record producer (born in 1952) | |
April 18th, 1995 (April 18 1995) | Death | Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (born in 1908) | |
April 18th, 1994 (April 18 1994) | Birth | Moises Arias, American Actor | |
April 18th, 1993 (April 18 1993) | Event | President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolves the National Assembly and dismisses the Cabinet. | |
April 18th, 1993 (April 18 1993) | Death | Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (born in 1917) | |
April 18th, 1992 (April 18 1992) | Event | General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. | |
April 18th, 1992 (April 18 1992) | Death | Benny Hill, British comedian (born in 1924) | |
April 18th, 1990 (April 18 1990) | Death | Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (born in 1921) | |
April 18th, 1989 (April 18 1989) | Birth | Alia Shawkat, American actress | |
April 18th, 1988 (April 18 1988) | Event | The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. | |
April 18th, 1988 (April 18 1988) | Death | Pierre Desproges, French humorist (born in 1939) | |
April 18th, 1987 (April 18 1987) | Birth | Danny Guthrie, English footballer | |
April 18th, 1987 (April 18 1987) | Birth | Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer | |
April 18th, 1986 (April 18 1986) | Birth | Maurice Edu, American soccer player | |
April 18th, 1986 (April 18 1986) | Birth | Billy Butler, American baseball player | |
April 18th, 1985 (April 18 1985) | Birth | Lukasz Fabianski, Polish footballer | |
April 18th, 1985 (April 18 1985) | Birth | Karl Reindler, Australian racing driver | |
April 18th, 1985 (April 18 1985) | Birth | Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro) | |
April 18th, 1984 (April 18 1984) | Birth | America Ferrera, American actress | |
April 18th, 1983 (April 18 1983) | Event | A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people. | |
April 18th, 1983 (April 18 1983) | Birth | Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player | |
April 18th, 1983 (April 18 1983) | Birth | Fodil Hadjadj, Algerian footballer | |
April 18th, 1982 (April 18 1982) | Birth | Marie-Elaine Thibert, Canadian singer | |
April 18th, 1982 (April 18 1982) | Birth | Scott Hartnell, NHL hockey player | |
April 18th, 1981 (April 18 1981) | Birth | Brian Buscher, American baseball player | |
April 18th, 1980 (April 18 1980) | Event | The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country s first President. | |
April 18th, 1980 (April 18 1980) | Birth | Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player | |
April 18th, 1979 (April 18 1979) | Birth | Michael Bradley, American basketball player | |
April 18th, 1979 (April 18 1979) | Birth | Anthony Davidson, British Formula One driver | |
April 18th, 1979 (April 18 1979) | Birth | Nuria Fergo, Spanish singer | |
April 18th, 1979 (April 18 1979) | Birth | Matthew Upson, English footballer | |
April 18th, 1979 (April 18 1979) | Birth | Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star | |
April 18th, 1977 (April 18 1977) | Birth | Dan Lacouture, NHL hockey player | |
April 18th, 1976 (April 18 1976) | Birth | Melissa Joan Hart, American actress | |
April 18th, 1976 (April 18 1976) | Birth | Fayray, Japanese singer | |
April 18th, 1976 (April 18 1976) | Birth | Justin Ross, American politician | |
April 18th, 1976 (April 18 1976) | Death | Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (born in 1911) | |
April 18th, 1974 (April 18 1974) | Event | The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore Dry port. | |
April 18th, 1974 (April 18 1974) | Birth | Mark Tremonti, American musician | |
April 18th, 1974 (April 18 1974) | Birth | Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer | |
April 18th, 1974 (April 18 1974) | Birth | Edgar Wright, British director | |
April 18th, 1974 (April 18 1974) | Death | Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (born in 1895) | |
April 18th, 1973 (April 18 1973) | Birth | Derrick Brooks, American football player | |
April 18th, 1973 (April 18 1973) | Birth | Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete | |
April 18th, 1973 (April 18 1973) | Birth | Brady Clark, American baseball player | |
April 18th, 1972 (April 18 1972) | Birth | Eli Roth, American film director | |
April 18th, 1971 (April 18 1971) | Birth | Tamara Braun, American actress | |
April 18th, 1971 (April 18 1971) | Birth | David Tennant, Scottish actor | |
April 18th, 1971 (April 18 1971) | Birth | Oleg Petrov, Russian ice hockey player | |
April 18th, 1970 (April 18 1970) | Birth | Greg Eklund, American musician | |
April 18th, 1970 (April 18 1970) | Birth | Rico Brogna, American baseball player | |
April 18th, 1969 (April 18 1969) | Birth | Princess Sayako of Japan | |
April 18th, 1969 (April 18 1969) | Birth | Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author | |
April 18th, 1968 (April 18 1968) | Birth | Mary Birdsong, American actress | |
April 18th, 1968 (April 18 1968) | Birth | David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor | |
April 18th, 1967 (April 18 1967) | Birth | Maria Bello, American actress | |
April 18th, 1967 (April 18 1967) | Death | Karl Miller, German footballer (born in 1913) | |
April 18th, 1966 (April 18 1966) | Birth | Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete | |
April 18th, 1966 (April 18 1966) | Birth | Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player | |
April 18th, 1965 (April 18 1965) | Birth | Rob Stenders, Dutch radio discjockey | |
April 18th, 1965 (April 18 1965) | Death | Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, Mexican inventor (born in 1917) | |
April 18th, 1964 (April 18 1964) | Birth | Niall Ferguson, British historian | |
April 18th, 1964 (April 18 1964) | Birth | Rithy Panh, Cambodian film director | |
April 18th, 1964 (April 18 1964) | Birth | Jim Ellison, musician | |
April 18th, 1964 (April 18 1964) | Birth | Mark Berry, aka Bez, Dancer in Happy Mondays | |
April 18th, 1964 (April 18 1964) | Death | Ben Hecht, American writer (born in 1894) | |
April 18th, 1963 (April 18 1963) | Birth | Eric McCormack, Canadian actor | |
April 18th, 1963 (April 18 1963) | Birth | Conan O Brien, American comedian | |
April 18th, 1963 (April 18 1963) | Death | Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (born in 1880) | |
April 18th, 1961 (April 18 1961) | Event | CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule. | |
April 18th, 1961 (April 18 1961) | Birth | Jane Leeves, British actress | |
April 18th, 1961 (April 18 1961) | Birth | Steve Lombardi, American wrestler | |
April 18th, 1958 (April 18 1958) | Event | A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum. | Ezra Pound Quotes |
April 18th, 1958 (April 18 1958) | Birth | Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (died in 1999) | |
April 18th, 1958 (April 18 1958) | Death | Maurice Gamelin, French general (born in 1872) | |
April 18th, 1956 (April 18 1956) | Birth | Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress | |
April 18th, 1956 (April 18 1956) | Birth | Eric Roberts, American actor | |
April 18th, 1956 (April 18 1956) | Birth | Melody Thomas Scott, American actress | |
April 18th, 1956 (April 18 1956) | Birth | Poonam Dhillon, Indian actress | |
April 18th, 1955 (April 18 1955) | Event | Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandurg, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. | |
April 18th, 1955 (April 18 1955) | Death | Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (born in 1879) | Albert Einstein Quotes |
April 18th, 1954 (April 18 1954) | Event | Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt. | |
April 18th, 1953 (April 18 1953) | Birth | Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian | |
April 18th, 1951 (April 18 1951) | Birth | Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer | |
April 18th, 1951 (April 18 1951) | Birth | Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian politician | |
April 18th, 1951 (April 18 1951) | Death | Antonio Oscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (born in 1869) | |
April 18th, 1950 (April 18 1950) | Birth | Kenny Ortega, American film and TV producer and choreographer | |
April 18th, 1949 (April 18 1949) | Event | The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force. | |
April 18th, 1949 (April 18 1949) | Event | The aircraft carrier USS United States (CVA-58) is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, the United States is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals. | |
April 18th, 1949 (April 18 1949) | Birth | Geoff Bodine, American race car driver | |
April 18th, 1949 (April 18 1949) | Death | Will Hay, English comedian and actor (born in 1888) | |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Birth | Kathy Acker, American author (died in 1997) | |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Birth | Dorothy Lyman, American actress | |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Birth | Herbert Mullin, American serial killer | |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Birth | Cindy Pickett, American actress | |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Birth | James Woods, American actor | James Wood Quotes |
April 18th, 1947 (April 18 1947) | Death | Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (born in 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler. | |
April 18th, 1946 (April 18 1946) | Event | The League of Nations is dissolved. | |
April 18th, 1946 (April 18 1946) | Birth | Hayley Mills, English actress | |
April 18th, 1946 (April 18 1946) | Birth | Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (died in 1999) | |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Event | Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. | |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Event | Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established. | |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Birth | Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (died in 2004) | |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Death | John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (born in 1849) | Ambrose Quotes |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Death | Ernie Pyle, American journalist (born in 1900) | |
April 18th, 1945 (April 18 1945) | Death | Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b.1876) | |
April 18th, 1943 (April 18 1943) | Event | World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. | Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes |
April 18th, 1943 (April 18 1943) | Death | Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (born in 1884) | Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes |
April 18th, 1942 (April 18 1942) | Event | World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya bombed. | |
April 18th, 1942 (April 18 1942) | Event | Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. | |
April 18th, 1942 (April 18 1942) | Birth | Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racer and F1 (posthumous) world champion (died in 1970) | |
April 18th, 1942 (April 18 1942) | Birth | Steve Blass, American professional baseball player | |
April 18th, 1942 (April 18 1942) | Death | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (born in 1875) | |
April 18th, 1940 (April 18 1940) | Birth | Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate | |
April 18th, 1940 (April 18 1940) | Birth | Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann) | |
April 18th, 1939 (April 18 1939) | Birth | Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
April 18th, 1939 (April 18 1939) | Birth | Thomas J. Moyer, American judge | |
April 18th, 1937 (April 18 1937) | Birth | Jan Kaplicky, British architect of Czech origin | |
April 18th, 1936 (April 18 1936) | Birth | Tommy Ivo, American race car driver | |
April 18th, 1936 (April 18 1936) | Death | Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (born in 1879) | |
April 18th, 1935 (April 18 1935) | Death | Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (born in 1884) | |
April 18th, 1934 (April 18 1934) | Birth | George Shirley, American tenor | |
April 18th, 1930 (April 18 1930) | Birth | Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor | |
April 18th, 1927 (April 18 1927) | Birth | Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist | |
April 18th, 1924 (April 18 1924) | Event | Simon & Schuster publishes the first Crossword Puzzle book. | |
April 18th, 1924 (April 18 1924) | Birth | Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American musician (died in 2005) | |
April 18th, 1924 (April 18 1924) | Birth | Henry Hyde, American politician (died in 2007) | |
April 18th, 1923 (April 18 1923) | Event | Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built", opens. | |
April 18th, 1922 (April 18 1922) | Birth | Barbara Hale, American actress | |
April 18th, 1921 (April 18 1921) | Birth | Jean Richard, French actor (died in 2001) | |
April 18th, 1919 (April 18 1919) | Birth | Virginia O Brien, American singer and actress (died in 2001) | |
April 18th, 1918 (April 18 1918) | Birth | Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (died in 2001) | |
April 18th, 1918 (April 18 1918) | Birth | Tony Mottola, American guitarist (died in 2004) | |
April 18th, 1917 (April 18 1917) | Birth | Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (died in 1947) | |
April 18th, 1917 (April 18 1917) | Birth | Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (died in 1981) | |
April 18th, 1917 (April 18 1917) | Death | Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (born in 1858) | |
April 18th, 1915 (April 18 1915) | Event | French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. | |
April 18th, 1915 (April 18 1915) | Birth | Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (died in 1960) | C. S. Lewis Quotes |
April 18th, 1912 (April 18 1912) | Event | The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. | |
April 18th, 1909 (April 18 1909) | Event | Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. | Joan of Arc Quotes |
April 18th, 1907 (April 18 1907) | Birth | Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian-born composer (died in 1995) | |
April 18th, 1906 (April 18 1906) | Event | The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California. | |
April 18th, 1906 (April 18 1906) | Event | The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement. | |
April 18th, 1906 (April 18 1906) | Death | Luis Martin, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born in 1846) | |
April 18th, 1905 (April 18 1905) | Birth | George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1998) | |
April 18th, 1904 (April 18 1904) | Birth | Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (died in 1981) | |
April 18th, 1902 (April 18 1902) | Event | Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake. | |
April 18th, 1902 (April 18 1902) | Birth | Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (died in 1981) | |
April 18th, 1902 (April 18 1902) | Birth | Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (died in 1994) | |
April 18th, 1901 (April 18 1901) | Birth | Al Lewis, American lyricist (died in 1967) | |
April 18th, 1899 (April 18 1899) | Event | The St. Andrew s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria. | |
April 18th, 1898 (April 18 1898) | Death | Gustave Moreau, French painter (born in 1826) | |
April 18th, 1897 (April 18 1897) | Birth | Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (died in 2001) | |
April 18th, 1893 (April 18 1893) | Birth | Violette Morris, French athlete (died in 1944) | |
April 18th, 1889 (April 18 1889) | Birth | Jessie Street, Australian suffragette, feminist, and human rights activist (died in 1970) | |
April 18th, 1888 (April 18 1888) | Birth | Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (died in 1979) | |
April 18th, 1882 (April 18 1882) | Birth | Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (died in 1977) | Leopold Stokowski Quotes |
April 18th, 1881 (April 18 1881) | Event | Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico. | |
April 18th, 1880 (April 18 1880) | Event | An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100. | |
April 18th, 1880 (April 18 1880) | Birth | Sam Crawford, baseball player (died in 1968) | |
April 18th, 1877 (April 18 1877) | Birth | Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (died in 1950) | |
April 18th, 1875 (April 18 1875) | Birth | Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (died in 1938) | |
April 18th, 1874 (April 18 1874) | Birth | Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (died in 1941) | |
April 18th, 1873 (April 18 1873) | Death | Justus von Liebig, German chemist (born in 1803) | |
April 18th, 1864 (April 18 1864) | Birth | Richard Harding Davis, American author (died in 1916) | |
April 18th, 1863 (April 18 1863) | Birth | Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (died in 1942) | |
April 18th, 1857 (April 18 1857) | Birth | Clarence Darrow, American attorney (died in 1938) | Clarence Darrow Quotes |
April 18th, 1848 (April 18 1848) | Event | American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. | |
April 18th, 1838 (April 18 1838) | Birth | Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (died in 1912) | |
April 18th, 1819 (April 18 1819) | Birth | Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Cuban Revolutionary (died in 1874) | |
April 18th, 1819 (April 18 1819) | Birth | Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (died in 1895) | |
April 18th, 1813 (April 18 1813) | Birth | James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (died in 1865) | James McCune Smith Quotes |
April 18th, 1802 (April 18 1802) | Death | Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (born in 1731) | Erasmus Darwin Quotes |
April 18th, 1797 (April 18 1797) | Event | The Battle of NeuwiedFrench victory against the Austrians. | |
April 18th, 1797 (April 18 1797) | Birth | Adolphe Thiers, French statesman (died in 1877) | |
April 18th, 1796 (April 18 1796) | Death | Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (born in 1732) | |
April 18th, 1794 (April 18 1794) | Death | Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born in 1714) | |
April 18th, 1783 (April 18 1783) | Event | Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began. | |
April 18th, 1775 (April 18 1775) | Event | American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begin; riders warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock. | Samuel Adams Quotes |
April 18th, 1772 (April 18 1772) | Birth | David Ricardo, English economist (died in 1823) | |
April 18th, 1771 (April 18 1771) | Birth | Karl Philipp Furst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (died in 1820) | |
April 18th, 1738 (April 18 1738) | Event | Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid. | |
April 18th, 1732 (April 18 1732) | Death | Louis Feuillee, French explorer (born in 1660) | |
April 18th, 1689 (April 18 1689) | Death | George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (born in 1648) | |
April 18th, 1674 (April 18 1674) | Death | John Graunt, English statistician (born in 1620) | |
April 18th, 1650 (April 18 1650) | Death | Simonds d Ewes, English antiquarian (born in 1602) | |
April 18th, 1636 (April 18 1636) | Death | Julius Caesar, English judge | Julius Caesar Quotes |
April 18th, 1605 (April 18 1605) | Birth | Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (died in 1674) | |
April 18th, 1590 (April 18 1590) | Birth | Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died in 1617) | |
April 18th, 1580 (April 18 1580) | Birth | Thomas Middleton, English dramatist (died in 1627) | Thomas Middleton Quotes |
April 18th, 1567 (April 18 1567) | Death | Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (born in 1503) | |
April 18th, 1558 (April 18 1558) | Death | Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent | |
April 18th, 1556 (April 18 1556) | Death | Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (born in 1495) | |
April 18th, 1552 (April 18 1552) | Death | John Leland, English antiquarian (born in 1502) | |
April 18th, 1518 (April 18 1518) | Event | Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. | |
April 18th, 1506 (April 18 1506) | Event | The cornerstone of the current St. Peter s Basilica is laid. | |
April 18th, 1480 (April 18 1480) | Birth | Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died in 1519) | Alexander Pope Quotes |
April 18th, 1161 (April 18 1161) | Death | Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury | |
April 18th, 1025 (April 18 1025) | Event | Boleslaw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. | |