April 18

April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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
1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs
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
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
1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon
1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin
1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 in an innings of a test cricket match, beating Garfield Sobers[?]'s previous record of 365.
2002 - A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

1674 - John Graunt[?], statistician
1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice, presided over the "Bloody Assizes"
1873 - Justus von Liebig, chemist
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist
1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright, screenwriter
1955 - Albert Einstein, scientist
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer on the Kon-Tiki expedition
2003 - Edgar F. Codd, Founder of theory of relational databases

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