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April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining.

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• 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland.
• 1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.
• 1906 - 1906 San Francisco earthquake, estimated magnitude 7.8, destroys much of San Francisco, California.
• 1934Events January-April January 1 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 7 First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 Einstein visits White House January 26 The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, Ne - The first "washateria" opens in Fort Worth, TexasFort Worth is the sixth-largest city in the state of Texas, located about 30 miles west of Dallas, Texas and forming part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 534,694. It is the county seat of Tarra.
• 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass - World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough: The Doolittle RaidThe Doolittle Raid was a bomber raid launched on the Japanese mainland on April 18, 1942. The raid — a propaganda exercise — was planned and led by then Lieutenant Colonel James Harold Doolittle. The raid was made possible by a technical observation of Ca on TokyoTokyo (; Tokyo lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the world's largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence. A little more than 12 million occurs.
• 1942 - Pierre LavalVichy France Pierre Laval ( June 28, 1883 October 15, 1945) was a French politician and thrice Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government. He was born in Chateldon and after gaining a degree, he worked as a lawyer, in Paris becomes Prime Minister of FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents..
• 1945 - A thousand-bomber raid on the small island of Heligoland leaves nothing standing; 128 people, mostly anti-aircraft crew, were killed.
• 1946 - The League of Nations dissolves.
• 1947 - While destroying German naval installations on Heligoland, the British Royal Navy detonate 6800 tons of explosive in an attempt to demolish the island.
• 1949 - The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force.
• 1954 - Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
• 1958 - A federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound should be released from an insane asylum.
• 1972 - The Roland Corporation founded in Osaka.
• 1974 - Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades.
• 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being.
• 1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in retaliation for the April 14 mining of the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will. The one-day action is the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
• 1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 in one inning of a test cricket match, beating Garfield Sobers's previous record of 365.
• 1996 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre).
• 2002 - A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
• 2003 - News crew from KSTP, Minneapolis films unguarded explosives at Al_Qa_Qaa