18 Aprile

Events

1506 - The cornerstane o Saunt Peter's Basilica in Roum is laid.
1775 - American Revolution: In Massachusetts, Paul Revere an ithers warn o Breetish troop advancements by sea, in what is kent as "Paul Revere's Ride".
1906 - A yirdquauk an fires hit San Francisco, Californie, killin an estimatit 3,000+ fowk.
1909 - Joan o Arc is beatified in Roum.
1941 - Vichy Fraunce propales its withdrawal frae the League o Naitions.
1945 - Warld War II: 1,000 bombers attack the German island o Heligoland.
1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser takes pouer in Egyp.
1955 - Famous pheesicist Albert Einstein dies in New Jersey agit 76.
1980 - Zimbabwe gains full unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
1983 - The Unitit States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is bombed, killin 63 fowk.
1996 - 106 civilians are kilt in Lebanon when Israeli Defense Forces shell a compoond in the ceety o Qana.
1996 - Islamic fundamentalists attack a hottle in Cairo, Egyp, killin 18 Greek tourists they mistook for Israelis.
2002 - A licht aircraft crashes intae Milan's Pirelli biggin.
2007 - 198 fowk are kilt in a series o bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraq.
2007 - Poland an Ukraine are gien the richt tae host UEFA Euro 2012.
2007 - A fire in Reykjavik's Austurstraeti destorys some o the auldest biggins in Iceland.
2008 - The first season o Indie Premier League cricket stairts.
2013 - A suicide bombin at a cafe in Baghdad kills 27 fowk.
2014 - An avalanche on Munt Everest kills 12 fowk.
2015 - A terrorist attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, kills 33 fowk.
2017 - Breetish Prime Meenister Theresa May caws a General election for 8 Juin.
2018 - Saudi Arabie opens cinemas for the first time syne 1983.
2018 - NASA's Transistin Exoplanet Survey Satellite is launched.
2019 - Alex McLeish is sacked as manager o the Scotland naitional fitbaw team.
2019 - Northren Erse jurnalist Lyra McKee is shot an kilt durin riotin in Derry/Lunnonderry.

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Births

1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler (d. 1519)
1590 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1617)
1770 - William Nicol, Scots geologist an pheesicist (d. 1851)
1772 - David Ricardo, Inglis politeecian an economist (d. 1823)
1912 - Sandy Glen, Scots splorer an wartime intelligence afficer (d. 2004)
1918 - Gabriel Axel, Dens director, screenwriter an actor (d. 2014)
1919 - Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1925 - Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
1927 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Prime meenister o Poland (d. 2013)
1941 - Michael D. Higgins, Erse politeecian, Preses o Ireland
1942 - Jochen Rindt, Austrick racin driver (d. 1970)
1945 - Ian Taylor, Inglish politeecian
1947 - James Woods, American actor
1956 - Eric Roberts, American actor
1958 - Eamonn Bannon, Scots fitbawer
1964 - Niall Ferguson, Scots historian
1971 - David Tennant, Scots actor
1971 - Samantha Cameron, wife o David Cameron
1973 - Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopie runner
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
1977 - Jonathan Rowson, Scots chess player
1984 - America Ferrera, American actress
1990 - Wojciech Szczesny, Pols fitbawer
1995 - Divock Origi, Belgian fitbawer

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Daiths

1873 - Justus von Liebig, German scientist (b. 1803)
1878 - Thomas Thomson, Scots surgeon (b. 1817)
1898 - Gustave Moreau, French penter (b. 1826)
1931 - James Lorrain Smith, Scots pathologist (b. 1862)
1954 - Helen Crawfurd, Scots suffragette (b. 1877)
1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born pheesicist (b. 1879)
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer an filmmaker (b. 1895)
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, Preses o Argentinae (b. 1908)
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norse splorer an anthropologist (b. 1914)
2012 - Dick Clark, American enterteener (b. 1929)
2019 - Lyra McKee, Northren Erse jurnalist (b. 1990)

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