About April 18
April 18, 2025 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 18
- 1506 –The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid.
- 1518 –Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1775 –American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- 1797 –The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
- 1880 –An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
- 1899 –The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1902 –Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
- 1906 –An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 1923 –Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- 1924 –Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- 1945 –Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1955 –29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1958 –A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
- 1961 –CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
- 1961 –The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
- 1974 –The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore dry port.
- 1980 –The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
- 1983 –A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1996 –In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
- 2007 –A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
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