{"id":4328,"date":"2023-04-18T00:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:40:14","slug":"history-of-18-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-18-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 18 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 18 April<\/h1>\n

1906<\/strong> – San Francisco,\u00a0CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.<\/p>\n

1910<\/strong> – Walter R. Brookins made the first airplane flight at night.<\/p>\n

1923<\/strong> – Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa’s band played the National Anthem.<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> – Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first “Crossword Puzzle Book.”<\/p>\n

1934<\/strong> – The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth,\u00a0TX.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. (Cover date June 1938)<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt\u00a0threw out the first ball preceding the season opener between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the\u00a0USS Hornet<\/i>, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> – Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> – American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> – The League of Nations was dissolved.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> – The Republic of Ireland was established.<\/p>\n

1950<\/strong> – The first transatlantic jet passenger trip was completed.<\/p>\n

1954<\/strong> – Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power in Egypt.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> – Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco were married. The religious ceremony took place on April 19.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – The Mutual Broadcasting System was sold to the 3M Company of Minnesota for $1.25 million.<\/p>\n

1978<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> – The TV show “Real People” premiered.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> – Rhodesia became an independent nation of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Daredevils Mike MacCarthy and Amanda Tucker made a skydive from the Eiffel Tower. The jump ended safely.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Ted Turner filed for a hostile takeover of CBS.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> – Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm the Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the\u00a0NHL. He retired as the\u00a0NHL’s all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – Joan Lunden and Jeff Konigsberg were married.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – Actor Robert Blake and his bodyguard were arrested in connection with the shooting death of Blake’s wife about a year before.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – The Amtrack Auto Train derailed in a remote area of north Florida. Four people were killed and 133 were injured.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the\u00a0United States in\u00a01930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0series of bombings, two of them being\u00a0suicides, occur in\u00a0Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0suicide bombing\u00a0in a\u00a0Baghdad\u00a0cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0King\u00a0Mswati III\u00a0of Swaziland announces that his country’s name will change to\u00a0Eswatini.<\/sup><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong>\u00a0– A redacted version of the\u00a0Mueller Report\u00a0is released to the\u00a0United States Congress\u00a0and the public.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brian Buscher, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Milan Jovanovi\u0107, Serbian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aldo Ram\u00edrez, Colombian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Audrey Tang, Taiwanese computer scientist and academic<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Greg Camarillo, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricardo Colclough, Canadian-American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Simone Farina, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Scott Hartnell, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Blair Late, American singer-songwriter and journalist<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Darren Sutherland, Irish boxer (d. 2009)<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Marie-\u00c9laine Thibert, Canadian singer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Reeve Carney, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Red Bryant, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0America Ferrera, American actress, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u0141ukasz Fabia\u0144ski, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Billy Butler, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maurice Edu, American soccer player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taylor Griffin, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Conrad Logan, Irish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Efra\u00edn Velarde, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brett Deledio, Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Danny Guthrie, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model, and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter and actress<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ivan Tri\u010dkovski, Macedonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jessica Jung, Korean American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Henderson \u00c1lvarez, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jake Howells, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Wojciech Szcz\u0119sny, Polish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Junior Torunarigha, Nigerian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Salisbury, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Divock Origi, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mariah Bell, American figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ioana Ducu, a Romanian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matthias Bl\u00fcbaum, German chess grandmaster<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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