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 108th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 5, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,744,934,400 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 ‘hectaoctagon’ 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 305 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 4,501 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 18 Historical Events
- 1518 –Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1797 –The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
- 1899 –The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1936 –The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1943 –World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
- 1946 –The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1949 –The aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1961 –The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
- 1974 –The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
Who were born on April 18?
- 1857 –Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)
- 1918 –Tony Mottola, American guitarist (d. 2004)
- 1919 –Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1925 –Bob Hastings, American actor
- 1951 –Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer
- 1961 –John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit
- 1963 –Eric McCormack, Canadian actor
- 1966 –Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
- 1972 –Rosa Clemente, American activist and hip-hop artist
- 1985 –Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
Who died on April 18?
- 1556 –Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
- 1567 –Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
- 1794 –Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- 1859 –Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary & General (b. 1814)
- 1917 –Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
- 1935 –Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
- 1942 –Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
- 1958 –Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
- 1974 –Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. 1895)
- 2003 –Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
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