Historical Events on April 18

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• 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 in the Vatican
• 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned queen consort of Poland

• 1552 Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
• 1663 Osman declares war on Austria
• 1666 Peace of Kleef: Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Munster
• 1676 Sudbury, Massachussetts, attacked by Indians
• 1688 "Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery": Francis Daniel Pastorius authors 1st formal written protest against African-American slavery in English colonies in Germantown, Pennsylvania
• 1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid

• 1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day when it began
• 1797 France & Austria sign ceasefire
• 1809 First run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket, England

• 1848 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico
• 1856 Russian Chancellor Count Nesselrode resigns
• 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies (US Civil War)
• 1862 Battle of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orlean's, Louisiana
• 1864 Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
• 1864 Battle of Dybbøl: Denmark is defeated by Prussian and Austrian forces storming Dybbol fort in the deciding battle of the Second Schleswig War

• 1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
• 1869 1st international cricket match, held in San Francisco, won by California

• 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 opens in South Kensington, England
• 1890 NY Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
• 1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Ron McDonald in race record 2:42:00
• 1899 John McGraw, at 36, has his managerial debut as Oriole manager

• 1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
• 1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring in 2:38:04.4
• 1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Neth Church forms in Utrecht

• 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 in San Francisco

• 1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Fred Cameron in 2:28:52.4
• 1912 Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City
• 1912 Tripolitan War: in continuing hostilities, Turkey closes the Dardanelles Straits after an Italian naval bombardment of the coastline
• 1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• 1916 US Secretary of State Warns Germany that the USA may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop

• 1918 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
• 1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Spring
• 1921 Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy" premieres in NYC
• 1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna in race record 2:18:57.6
• 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 by Simon & Schuster
• 1925 World's Fair opens in Chicago
• 1926 Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf, Germany

• 1929 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
• 1930 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
• 1930 BBC news announcer announces "there is no news" at 20:45 news bulletin, plays music instead
• 1932 36th Boston Marathon won by German runner Paul de Bruyn in 2:33:36.4
• 1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas)

• 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 San Francisco to Honolulu
• 1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
• 1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson in 2:35:34.8; his second victory in the event
• 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 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 3-1 for a 4-3 series win; Toronto recovers after losing first 3 games
• 1944 Leonard Bernstein & Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in NYC
• 1945 1 armed outfielder, St Louis 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 propaganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
• 1945 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Bolivia established
• 1946 Rome, Auerbach and Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater NYC for 734 performances

• 1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)

• 1948 International Court of Justice opens at The Hague Netherlands
• 1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
• 1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gösta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
• 1950 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2
• 1950 Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
• 1950 Sam Jethroe is 1st African American 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
• 1953 "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 542 performances
• 1954 Colonel Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power & becomes Prime Minister of Egypt
• 1955 "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 176 performances
• 1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
• 1955 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
• 1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
• 1956 Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
• 1958 Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
• 1958 NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in LA

• 1959 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens' 4th straight title; beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-3 for a 4-1 series win
• 1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
• 1961 CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule
• 1962 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
• 1963 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant


• 1963 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs go back-to-back with a 3-1 Game 5 win over Detroit Red Wings for a 4-1 series victory
• 1964 "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
• 1964 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
• 1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
• 1964 Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
• 1964 Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane"

• 1966 70th Boston Marathon: Kenji Kimihara of Japan wins in 2:17:11; American Bobbi Gibb first woman in 3:21:40 (unsanctioned)
• 1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
• 1968 1st ABA basketball championship began
• 1968 Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms
• 1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
• 1968 Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band" premieres in NYC
• 1968 Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII" premieres in London
• 1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished
• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1969 Greek actress and activist Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund
• 1970 France beats England, 35-13 at Stade Colombes, Paris to earn a share of the Five Nations Rugby Championship with Wales
• 1971 Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning v WI after 124 in 1st
• 1972 "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances
• 1972 The Widgery Report on 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"

• 1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi

• 1976 30th Tony Awards: "Travesties" & "A Chorus Line" win
• 1977 "Side by Side" by Stephen Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 performances
• 1977 81st Boston Marathon: Canadian Jerome Drayton wins men's race in 2:14:46; American Miki Gorman takes her 2nd women's event in 2:48:33

• 1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
• 1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
• 1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
• 1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
• 1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
• 1981 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox tie Rochester Red Wings 2-2 in 32 innings (game resumed 23rd June)
• 1982 Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros)
• 1982 Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act
• 1982 Zimbabwean capital Salisbury renamed Harare
• 1983 87th Boston Marathon: American double; Greg Meyer men's champion in 2:09:00; Joan Benoit takes women's race in 2:22:43; her 2nd event title
• 1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon


• 1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)

• 1984 Space Shuttle Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
• 1984 Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
• 1985 Wham become the first western pop act to release an album in China
• 1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
• 1986 Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
• 1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race

• 1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
• 1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver near Coolidge, Arizona
• 1988 92nd Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins men's race in 2:08:43; Rosa Mota of Portugal repeats as women's champion in 2:24:30

• 1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
• 1990 Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF
• 1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
• 1991 US Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
• 1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike

• 1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)
• 1993 "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 performances
• 1993 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo

• 1994 "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
• 1994 98th Boston Marathon: Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya wins 2nd straight title in 2:07:15; Uta Pippig of Germany claims women's race in 2:21:45
• 1994 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
• 1994 Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day for WI vs England to beat Gary Sobers' world record
• 1994 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
• 1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
• 1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
• 1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years

• 1996 "Funny Thing Happened" opens at St James Theater NYC for 715 performances
• 1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces accidentally shell the UN compound at Quana.

• 1998 51st British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Full Monty" Best Film, Baz Luhrmann Best Director

• 2004 50th British Academy Television Awards: "Little Britain" Best Comedy, "Buried" Best Drama
• 2005 109th Boston Marathon: Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia claims men's section in 2:11:44; Catherine Ndereba of Kenya wins back-to-back races and 4th overall women's title in 2:25:12
• 2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision
• 2008 NBA owners give approval of a potential Seattle SuperSonics' relocation to Oklahoma City in a 28–2 vote by the Board of Governors

• 2011 115th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Geoffrey Mutai wins men's race in record 2:03:02; Caroline Kilel takes women's section in 2:22:36
• 2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
• 2013 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
• 2013 Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62

• 2014 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest

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