April 18

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

Events

   * 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.

Births

   * 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance ruler and daughter of Pope
     Alexander VI
   * 1722 - David Ricardo, economist (+ 1823)
   * 1819 - Franz von SuppŽ, composer (+ 1895)
   * 1857 - Clarence Darrow, attorney (+ 1938)
   * 1864 - Richard Harding Davis, author (+ 1916)
   * 1882 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor and founder of the American
     Symphony Orchestra (+ 1977)
   * 1893 - Jo Swerling, writer (+ 1964)
   * 1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer and mountaineer (+ 2001)
   * 1901 - L‡szl— NŽmeth, author (+ 1975)
   * 1904 - Pigmeat Markham, comedian (+ 1981)
   * 1921 - Jean Richard, actor
   * 1921 - Barbara Hale, actress
   * 1928 - Otto Piene, painter
   * 1940 - Robert N. Kucey, author
   * 1946 - Hayley Mills, actress
   * 1947 - James Woods, actor
   * 1949 - Geoff Bodine, automobile racer
   * 1954 - Rick Moranis, comedian
   * 1963 - Conan O'Brien, comedian
   * 1966 - Trine Hattestad, javelin thrower

Deaths

   * 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

Holidays and observances

   * Good Friday (2003)

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