About April 18
April 18, 2025 is the 108th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 305 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 18
- 1518 –Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1689 –Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 1797 –The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.
- 1831 –The University of Alabama is founded.
- 1857 –“The Spirits Book” by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
- 1899 –The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1906 –An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 1912 –The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- 1923 –Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opens.
- 1930 –BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- 1942 –Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1954 –Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1955 –29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1961 –The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.
- 1980 –The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.
- 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.
- 1983 –A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 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 –A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
- 2007 –The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
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