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
- 1738 –Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
- 1906 –An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 1909 –Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 1924 –Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- 1945 –Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1974 –The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
- 1980 –The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
- 2007 –A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
- 2007 –The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
Who were born on April 18?
- 1874 –Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
- 1879 –Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist (d. 1962)
- 1880 –Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
- 1882 –Leopold Stokowski, Polish conductor (d. 1977)
- 1924 –Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American musician (d. 2005)
- 1930 –Clive Revill, New Zealand born actor
- 1947 –Cindy Pickett, American actress
- 1953 –Rick Moranis, Canadian comedian
- 1969 –Princess Sayako of Japan
- 1972 –Eli Roth, American film director
Who died on April 18?
- 1650 –Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
- 1859 –Tantya Tope, Indian Revolutionary & General (b. 1814)
- 1917 –Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
- 1947 –Jozef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler
- 1949 –Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
- 1951 –António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
- 1955 –Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
- 1964 –Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1990 –Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1998 –Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
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