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, 484,704 hours 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.
- 1689 –Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 1738 –Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
- 1775 –American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- 1831 –The University of Alabama is founded.
- 1909 –Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 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.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1983 –A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
Who were born on April 18?
- 1740 –Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (d. 1810)
- 1877 –Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
- 1934 –James Drury, American actor
- 1940 –Mike Vickers, British guitarist and saxophonist (Manfred Mann)
- 1942 –Steve Blass, American professional baseball player
- 1964 –Jim Ellison, musician (d. 1996)
- 1964 –Mark Berry, aka Bez, dancer in Happy Mondays
- 1976 –Sean Maguire, British actor
- 1986 –Conrad Logan, Irish footballer
- 1986 –Maurice Edu, American soccer player
Who died on April 18?
- 1556 –Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
- 1794 –Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
- 1917 –Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
- 1943 –Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
- 1958 –Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
- 1965 –Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
- 1988 –Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
- 1990 –Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
- 1992 –Frankie Howerd, English comedian and comic actor (b. 1917)
- 2009 –Stephanie Parker, Welsh actress (b. 1987)
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