April 18
April 18 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonamemene Armenian 2 Mareri 1475 Aztec Tlaxochimaco 18, 8 Miquiztli Babylonian 29 Adaru, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Beteng, Laba, Keliwon, Aryang, Saniscara of Landep, Brahma, Jangur, Raja Bengali 5 Boisakh , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Water Dog ・Stomach Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 3 , Day 2Qingming , 2 days until Guyu )Common Era 18 April 2026 CE Coptic 10 Parmouti , AM 1742Egyptian 2 Thoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 10 Miyāzyā, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Nonidi de Germinal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 18 April , AD 2026 Hebrew 1 Iyar , AM 5786Omer 16 Hindu Aśvinī ・Viṣkambha Vaiśākha , 1948 SE Pratipada , Śukla pakṣa of Vaiśākha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,683 Icelandic Laugardagur, 26 Einmánuður 2025 Islamic 1 Dhu al-Qi'dah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W16-6 Japanese 2 Yayoi , Reiwa 8Seimei , 2 days until Kokuu ) Julian 5 April , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461149 Korean 2 Yongdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.9.6 19 Pop , 8 Cimi Roman Nonis Aprilibus , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 29 Farvardin , SH 1405 Tibetan 1 nag pa, me pho rta
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Day of the year
April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 257 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1902 – The 7.5 M w Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), killing between 800 and 2,000.1906 – The 7.9 M w earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco , California , killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.1915 – World War I : French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.1916 – World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites , the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army.1930 – A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești , most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.1938 – Superman debuts in Action Comics #11939 – Robert Menzies , who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons .1942 – World War II : The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama , Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France .
1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance , Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island .1945 – World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland , Germany.1945 – Italian resistance movement : In Turin , despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins.
1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague , Netherlands.1946 – Jackie Robinson makes his regular season debut for the Montreal Royals of the International League , to make them the first integrated modern professional baseball team.
1947 – The Operation Big Bang , the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany.1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire republic and severing Ireland ' sCommonwealth of Nations .1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt .1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung , Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference .1972 – East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia, killing 43.1978 – The Ba Chúc massacre begins, which precipitates the Cambodian–Vietnamese War the same year.1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia ) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.1980 – The town of Elmore City, Oklahoma holds its first dance in the town's history.
1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.1988 – In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.
1996 – The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon , killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.2018 – King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini .2018 – Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua.
2019 – A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public.2026 – Seven people are killed and fourteen others are injured in a mass shooting in Kyiv , UkraineBirths
1605 – Giacomo Carissimi , Italian priest and composer (died 1674)1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel , French violinist and composer (died 1747)1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician (died 1810)1759 – Jacques Widerkehr , French cellist and composer (died 1823)1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (died 1820)1772 – David Ricardo , British economist and politician (died 1823)1794 – William Debenham , English founder of Debenhams (died 1863)1813 – James McCune Smith , African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (died 1865)1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes , Cuban lawyer and activist (died 1874)1819 – Franz von Suppé , Austrian composer and conductor (died 1895)
1838 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , French chemist and academic (died 1912)1854 – Ludwig Levy , German architect (died 1907)1857 – Clarence Darrow , American lawyer (died 1938)1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve , Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1962)1858 – Alexander Shirvanzade , Armenian playwright and author (died 1935)
1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold , Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (died 1942)1863 – Linton Hope , English sailor and architect (died 1920)
1863 – Siegfried Bettmann , founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (died 1955)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis , American journalist and author (died 1916)1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić , Croatian author and poet (died 1938)1877 – Vicente Sotto , Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1950)1879 – Korneli Kekelidze , Georgian philologist and scholar (died 1962)1880 – Sam Crawford , American baseball player, coach, and umpire (died 1968)1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele , Nigerian ruler (died 1964)1882 – Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (died 1977)
1883 – Aleksanteri Aava , Finnish poet (died 1956)1884 – Jaan Anvelt , Estonian educator and politician (died 1937)1889 – Jessie Street , Australian activist (died 1970)1892 – Eugene Houdry , French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962)1897 – Ardito Desio , Italian geologist and cartographer (died 2001)1898 – Patrick Hennessy , Irish soldier and businessman (died 1981)1900 – Bertha Isaacs , Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (died 1997)1901 – Al Lewis , American songwriter (died 1967)1901 – László Németh , Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975)
1902 – Waldemar Hammenhög , Swedish author (died 1972)1902 – Giuseppe Pella , Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1981)
1904 – Pigmeat Markham , African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (died 1981)1905 – Sydney Halter , Canadian lawyer and businessman (died 1990)1905 – George H. Hitchings , American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
1907 – Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995)1911 – Maurice Goldhaber , Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (died 2011)1914 – Claire Martin , Canadian author (died 2014)1915 – Joy Davidman , Polish-Ukrainian American poet and author (died 1960)1916 – Carl Burgos , American illustrator (died 1984)1918 – Gabriel Axel , Danish-French actor, director, and producer (died 2014)1918 – André Bazin , French critic and theorist (died 1958)
1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
1918 – Clifton Hillegass , American publisher, founded CliffsNotes
1918 – Tony Mottola , American guitarist and composer (died 2004)
1919 – Virginia O'Brien , American actress and singer (died 2001)1919 – Esther Afua Ocloo , Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (died 2002)
1920 – John F. Wiley , American football player and coach (died 2013)1921 – Jean Richard , French actor and singer (died 2001)1922 – Barbara Hale , American actress (died 2017)1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005)1925 – Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer and author (died 2005)1926 – Doug Insole , English cricketer (died 2017)1927 – Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist, author, and academic (died 2008)1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (died 2013)
1928 – Karl Josef Becker , German cardinal and theologian (died 2015)1928 – Otto Piene , German sculptor and academic (died 2014)
1929 – Peter Hordern , English soldier and politician (died 2024)1930 – Clive Revill , New Zealand actor and singer (died 2025)1930 – Jean Guillou , French organist (died 2019)
1931 – Bill Miles , American director and producer (died 2013)1934 – James Drury , American actor (died 2020)1934 – George Shirley , African-American tenor and educator
1935 – Costas Ferris , Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1936 – Roger Graef , American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022)1936 – Vladimir Hütt , Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997)
1937 – Keiko Abe , Japanese marimba player and composer1937 – Jan Kaplický , Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (died 2009)
1939 – Glen Hardin , American pianist and arranger1939 – Thomas J. Moyer , American lawyer and judge (died 2010)
1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein , American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate1940 – Mike Vickers , English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter
1941 – Michael D. Higgins , Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland 1942 – Michael Beloff , English lawyer and academic1942 – Robert Christgau , American journalist and critic
1942 – Jochen Rindt , German-Austrian racing driver (died 1970)
1944 – Kathy Acker , American author and poet (died 1997)1944 – Philip Jackson , Scottish sculptor and photographer
1945 – Bernard Arcand , Canadian anthropologist and author (died 2009)1946 – Hayley Mills , English actress1947 – Moses Blah , Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (died 2013)1947 – Jerzy Stuhr , Polish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2024)
1947 – James Woods , American actor and producer
1948 – Régis Wargnier , French director, producer, and screenwriter1950 – Grigory Sokolov , Russian pianist and composer1953 – Rick Moranis , Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter1953 – Sk. Mujibur Rahman , Bengali politician
1954 – Michael Salvatori , American composer1954 – Robert Greenberg , American pianist and composer
1958 – Gabi Delgado-López , Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F. (died 2020)1958 – Malcolm Marshall , Barbadian cricketer and coach (died 1999)
1959 – Susan Faludi , American journalist, author and feminist1960 – Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova , Ukrainian runner1961 – Jane Leeves , English actress and dancer1961 – John Podhoretz , American journalist and author
1962 – Jeff Dunham , American ventriloquist and comedian1963 – Conan O'Brien , American television host, comedian, and writer1964 – Niall Ferguson , Scottish historian and academic1969 – Keith DeCandido , American author1970 – Saad Hariri , Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon 1970 – Willie Roaf , American football player
1971 – David Tennant , Scottish actor1972 – Rosa Clemente , American journalist and activist1972 – Eli Roth , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Derrick Brooks , American football player1973 – Haile Gebrselassie , Ethiopian runner
1974 – Edgar Wright , English filmmaker1976 – Melissa Joan Hart , American actress1976 – Andrew Ng , British-born American artificial intelligence researcher
1979 – Matt Cooper , Australian rugby league player1979 – Kourtney Kardashian , American television personality
1981 – Audrey Tang , Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer1983 – Miguel Cabrera , Venezuelan baseball player1984 – America Ferrera , American actress1985 – Łukasz Fabiański , Polish footballer1986 – Tina Bru , Norwegian politician1988 – Vanessa Kirby , English actress1989 – Alia Shawkat , American actress1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny , Polish footballer1992 – Chloe Bennet , American actress1993 – Mika Zibanejad , Swedish ice hockey player1994 – Aminé , American singer-songwriter1995 – Divock Origi , Belgian footballer1996 – Ski Mask the Slump God , American rapper2003 – Breckie Hill , American influencerDeaths
Pre-1600
727 – Agallianos Kontoskeles , Byzantine commander and rebel leader850 – Perfectus , Spanish monk and martyr 909 – Dionysius II , Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch 943 – Fujiwara no Atsutada , Japanese nobleman and poet (born 906)963 – Stephen Lekapenos , co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire 1161 – Theobald of Bec , French-English archbishop (born 1090)1176 – Galdino della Sala , Italian archdeacon and saint1430 – John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen , German count1552 – John Leland , English poet and historian (born 1502)1555 – Polydore Vergil , English historian (born 1470)1556 – Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet and politician (born 1495)1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach , German adventurer (born 1503)1587 – John Foxe , English historian and author (born 1516)1636 – Julius Caesar , English judge and politician (born 1557)1650 – Simonds d'Ewes , English lawyer and politician (born 1602)1674 – John Graunt , English demographer and statistician (born 1620)1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys , Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1648)1732 – Louis Feuillée , French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (born 1660)1742 – Arvid Horn , Swedish general and politician (born 1664)1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau , Canadian murderer (born 1733)1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714)1796 – Johan Wilcke , Swedish physicist and academic (born 1732)1802 – Erasmus Darwin , English physician and botanist (born 1731)1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet , French painter (born 1761)1859 – Tatya Tope , Indian general (born 1814)1864 – Juris Alunāns , Latvian philologist and linguist (born 1832)1873 – Justus von Liebig , German chemist and academic (born 1803)1890 – Paweł Bryliński , Polish sculptor (born 1814)1898 – Gustave Moreau , French painter and academic (born 1826)1906 – Luis Martín , Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born 1846)1912 – Martha Ripley , American physician (born 1843)1917 – Vladimir Serbsky , Russian psychiatrist and academic (born 1858)1923 – Savina Petrilli , Italian religious leader (born 1851)1936 – Milton Brown , American singer and bandleader (born 1903)1936 – Ottorino Respighi , Italian composer and conductor (born 1879)
1938 – George Bryant , American archer (born 1878)1942 – Aleksander Mitt , Estonian speed skater (born 1903)1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (born 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral (born 1884)1945 – John Ambrose Fleming , English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (born 1849)1945 – Ernie Pyle , American journalist and soldier (born 1900)
1947 – Jozef Tiso , Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887)1951 – Óscar Carmona , Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (born 1869)1955 – Albert Einstein , German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879)1958 – Maurice Gamelin , Belgian-French general (born 1872)1963 – Meyer Jacobstein , American academic and politician (born 1880)1964 – Ben Hecht , American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)1965 – Guillermo González Camarena , Mexican engineer (born 1917)1974 – Marcel Pagnol , French author, playwright, and director (born 1895)1988 – Oktay Rıfat Horozcu , Turkish poet and playwright (born 1914)1995 – Arturo Frondizi , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (born 1908)2002 – Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (born 1914)2004 – Kamisese Mara , Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (born 1920)2008 – Germaine Tillion , French ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1907)2012 – Dick Clark , American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (born 1929)2012 – René Lépine , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)
2012 – Robert O. Ragland , American musician (born 1931)
2012 – K. D. Wentworth , American author (born 1951)
2013 – Goran Švob , Croatian philosopher and author (born 1947)2013 – Anne Williams , English activist (born 1951)
2014 – Guru Dhanapal , Indian director and producer (born 1959)2014 – Sanford Jay Frank , American screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
2014 – Brian Priestman , English conductor and academic (born 1927)
2019 – Lyra McKee , Irish journalist (born 1990)2022 – Harrison Birtwistle , British composer (born 1934)2024 – Dickey Betts , American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer (born 1943)
2024 – Mandisa , American gospel singer (born 1976)