18 Aprile

The **18t o Aprile** is the 108t day o the year (109t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 257 days ti come.

## 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.

## 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

## 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)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Zimbabwe)
* Invention Day (Japan)
* Airmy Day (Iran)
* Internaitional Day o Monuments an Sites