April 18
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April 18 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining after April 18 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler (d. 1519)
- 1819 – Carlos Cespedes, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1874)
- 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938)
- 1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian social reformer (d. 1962)
- 1858 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist (d. 1935)
- 1902 – Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
- 1905 – George H. Hitchings, American scientist (d. 1998)
- 1907 – Miklos Rozsa, Hungarian composer (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist
- 1942 – Jochen Rindt, Austrian racecar driver (d. 1970)
- 1947 – Cindy Pickett, American actress
- 1947 – James Woods, American actor
- 1963 – Conan O'Brien, American comedian
- 1971 – Samantha Cameron, wife of David Cameron
- 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor
- 1971 – Aphex Twin, Irish-English musician
- 1973 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
- 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
- 1976 – Rodrigo de la Serna, Argentine actor
- 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer
- 1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American reality TV personality
- 1984 – America Ferrera, American actress
- 1986 – Maurice Edu, American soccer player
- 1987 – Danny Guthrie, English footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1873 – Justus von Liebig, German scientist (b. 1803)
- 1955 – Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
- 1974 – Marcel Pagnol, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1895)
- 1995 – Arturo Frondizi, Argentine President (b. 1908)
- 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, ethnographer, zoologist and author (b. 1914)
- 2004 – Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1920)
[change] Events
- 1906 – San Francisco, California is destroyed by a major earthquake, and subsequent fires. Estimates suggest that 3,000 people have perished, some of them after Mayor Eugene Schmitz orders a shoot-to-kill policy against looters. Operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, who was in the city at the time, fled, never to return.
- 1955 – World-famous physicist Albert Einstein dies aged 76.
- 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe becomes independent from the UK, with Canaan Banana as its first President. Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister, assuming the presidency in 1987.
- 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl, who became world-famous for his Kon-Tiki expedition, dies at the age of 87.
- 2004 – Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero orders the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
