About April 18
April 18, 2024 is the 109th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 286 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 18
- 1025 –Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
- 1518 –Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1738 –Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) is founded in Madrid.
- 1864 –Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
- 1897 –The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
- 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.
- 1936 –The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1942 –Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1942 –World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
- 1946 –The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 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 –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.
- 1981 –The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23.
- 1992 –General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- 2007 –The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
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