What are the important events that happened on April 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 18: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 18 is the 109th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 5, 2016 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,460,937,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 285 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,214 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 18 Historical Events
- 1518 –Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1864 –Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
- 1881 –Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
- 1897 –The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1902 –Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1930 –BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- 1943 –World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
- 1955 –29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1974 –The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
- 1992 –General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
Who were born on April 18?
- 1893 –Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
- 1902 –Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994)
- 1904 –Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
- 1934 –James Drury, American actor
- 1936 –Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
- 1945 –Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (d. 2004)
- 1971 –David Tennant, Scottish actor
- 1973 –Derrick Brooks, American football player
- 1976 –Jo Gibb, Scottish Actress
- 1979 –Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
Who died on April 18?
- 1567 –Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
- 1794 –Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- 1802 –Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
- 1898 –Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
- 1942 –Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
- 1945 –John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
- 1976 –Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer (b. 1911)
- 1995 –Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
- 1998 –Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
- 2005 –Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
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