This Day in History for 18th April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 193

310 - St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
387 - Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
1521 - Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther
1552 - Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1663 - Osman declares war on Austria
1666 - Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster
1676 - Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians
1738 - Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "British are coming!"
1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
1797 - France & Austria signs cease fire
1809 - 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England
1834 - Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1835 - William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government
1838 - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1848 - American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1853 - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1856 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA
1861 - Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1862 - Battle of Ft Jackson, Ft St Philip & New Orlean's, LA
1864 - Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 - Confederate Gen Johnson surrendered to Gen Sherman in North Carolina
1868 - San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1869 - 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian
1874 - David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
1876 - Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
1879 - Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins
1880 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 - Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1881 - Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid 1890 - NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1899 - John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1899 - The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1904 - L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 - 8.25 earthquake shakes SF Calif
1906 - Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht
1906 - SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of city
1906 - The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1907 - Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in NYC
1907 - Fairmont Hotel opens
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 - The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1918 - Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
1921 - Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo
1921 - Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in NYC
1922 - Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1923 - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
1923 - Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 - World's fair opens in Chicago
1926 - Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany
1927 - Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China
1929 - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1934 - Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament
1935 - Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
1935 - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
1938 - Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1939 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939 - Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 - James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1942 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3
1944 - 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4
1944 - Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC
1945 - 1 armed outfielder, St L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
1945 - Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken)
1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia are established.
1946 - "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances
1946 - Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals
1946 - League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)
1946 - Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in NYC
1946 - US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1950 - 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
1950 - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1950 - Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1950 - Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves
1950 - Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th
1951 - "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
1951 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951 - France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1951 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1953 - "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
1954 - Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1955 - "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1955 - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1955 - 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1956 - Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1958 - Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 260

1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1521 - Francois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)
1590 - Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17); constructed the Blue Mosque
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer
1729 - Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
1732 - George Colman, "the Elder
1740 - Francis Baring, banker/merchant
1744 - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
1759 - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
1764 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
1777 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
1786 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
1797 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France
1803 - Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)
1806 - Ludwig Schuberth, composer
1813 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist (d. 1865)
1817 - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
1819 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist (d. 1912)
1839 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
1839 - Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
1842 - Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
1845 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer
1852 - George Clausen, painter
1855 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
1855 - Josef Gruber, composer
1857 - Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
1859 - Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1864 - Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)
1868 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
1871 - Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
1873 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
1874 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
1875 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
1877 - Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950)
1880 - Sam Crawford, baseball player (d. 1968)
1881 - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
1881 - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
1882 - Leopold Stokowski, London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
1884 - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
1888 - Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
1889 - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
1890 - James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
1893 - Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
1896 - C Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse)
1897 - Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour) [or Apr 12]
1897 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1898 - Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer
1900 - Louise Tazewell, [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer
1901 - Al Lewis, American lyricist (d. 1967)
1902 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1903 - Leonid Kinskey, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1903 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
1904 - Pigmeat Markham, American comedian (d. 1981)
1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1906 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1906 - Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
1907 - Miklos Rozsa, Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
1907 - Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing)
1908 - Edward Roberts, bishop (Ely)
1908 - Henry Guinness, missionary
1908 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
1908 - Eric Spear, British film and TV composer (Coronation Street theme)
1910 - Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941- )
1910 - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
1911 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect
1911 - George Huntington Hartford II, NYC, heir (A&P)
1912 - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer
1912 - Wendy Barrie, Hong Kong, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show)
1913 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video)
1913 - Kent Wheeler Kennan, composer
1913 - Milos Sokola, composer
1913 - Susan Bosence, textile designer
1914 - C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
1914 - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
1915 - Joy Gresham Lewis, American writer, wife of C. S. Lewis (d. 1960)
1917 - Louise Frederika, Queen of Greece
1917 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (d. 1947)
1918 - Robert Zimonyi, Hungary, cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
1918 - Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy)
1918 - Tony Mottola, Kearney NJ, guitarist/host (Melody Street)
1918 - Cliff Hillegass, American publisher (d. 2001)
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1920 - Walter Clegg, MP
1921 - Barbara Hale, Dekalb Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1922 - Avril Angers, actress (Brass Monkey)
1923 - Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO (Equal Opportunities Comm)
1923 - Leif Panduro, Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions)
1924 - Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
1924 - Henry J Hyde, (Rep-R-IL)
1924 - Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
1924 - Raf de Linde, [Raphael van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
1925 - Bob Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1599 - Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain
1956 - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony)
1973 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 5th wife Leslie (Tessa) Busby
1992 - Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden
1993 - Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil
2001 - NBA star player Kobe Bryant (22) weds Vanessa Laine at St. Edward Roman Catholic Church in Dana Point, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1994 - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 113

680 - Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1504 - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52
1530 - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43
1552 - John Leland, antiquary, dies
1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
1587 - John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1612 - Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1679 - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
1684 - Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies
1689 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
1690 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
1710 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75
1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1800 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
1800 - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
1807 - Erasmus Darwin, physician writer and botanist (Influence), dies (b. 1731)
1818 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
1824 - Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72
1830 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62
1845 - Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1853 - William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration
1854 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84
1855 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
1861 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Robert Smirke, architect, dies
1871 - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64
1873 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
1879 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1883 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
1898 - Gustave Moureau, painter, dies
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1919 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M Muller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
1921 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
1925 - Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies
1928 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58
1935 - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
1936 - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
1938 - Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
1939 - Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
1940 - Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies
1940 - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies
1941 - ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 - Cécile Chamindale, composer, dies
1945 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1947 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
1949 - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
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 - Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
1955 - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein (1955) 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85
1958 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies
1959 - Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70
1960 - Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
1963 - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1963 - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 - Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49
1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1969 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82
1971 - Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69
1974 - Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
1975 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38
1976 - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1983 - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
1984 - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
1986 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
1993 - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1993 - Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor and printmaker dies of cancer aged 62
1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
1996 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1996 - Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55
1996 - Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80