{"id":20052,"date":"2020-04-18T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20052"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:32:36","slug":"history-of-18-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-18-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 18 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 18 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the\u00a0NHL. He retired as the\u00a0NHL&#8217;s all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Joan Lunden and Jeff Konigsberg were married.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake&#8217;s wife about a year before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; The Amtrack Auto Train derailed in a remote area of north Florida. Four people were killed and 133 were injured.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the\u00a0United States\u00a0in 1930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0series of bombings, two of them being\u00a0suicides, occur in\u00a0Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0suicide bombing\u00a0in a\u00a0Baghdad\u00a0cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0King\u00a0Mswati III\u00a0of Swaziland announces that his country&#8217;s name will change to\u00a0Eswatini.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; A redacted version of the\u00a0Mueller Report\u00a0is released to the\u00a0United States Congress\u00a0and the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brian Buscher, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Milan Jovanovi\u0107, Serbian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aldo Ram\u00edrez, Colombian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Audrey Tang, Taiwanese computer scientist and academic<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Greg Camarillo, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricardo Colclough, Canadian-American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Simone Farina, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Scott Hartnell, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Blair Late, American singer-songwriter and journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marie-\u00c9laine Thibert, Canadian singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Red Bryant, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0America Ferrera, American actress and producer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski, Polish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Billy Butler, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maurice Edu, American soccer player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taylor Griffin, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Conrad Logan, Irish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Efra\u00edn Velarde, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brett Deledio, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Danny Guthrie, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ivan Tri\u010dkovski, Macedonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jessica Jung, Korean American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Henderson \u00c1lvarez, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jake Howells, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny, Polish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Junior Torunarigha, Nigerian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Salisbury, English cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Divock Origi, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mariah Bell, American figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matthias Bl\u00fcbaum, German chess grandmaster<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 18 April 1999 &#8211; Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the\u00a0NHL. He retired as the\u00a0NHL&#8217;s all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records. 2000 &#8211; The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history. 2000 &#8211; Joan Lunden and Jeff Konigsberg were married. 2002 &#8211; Actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1167,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-18-april","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20054,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20052\/revisions\/20054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}