The April 18th is the 108e Jour of the Année (109e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

• 1025 : Boleslas I {{er}} Valiant the is crowned king de Pologne.

• 1349 : Jacques III, last king independent of Majorque, relieved in 1344, resells the town of Montpellier to the France to be able to reconstitute an army and to continue its fight against Pierre IV of Aragon.
• 1506 : Beginning of the construction of current the Basilica Saint Pierre of Rome under the reign of Jules II.
• 1513 : Denis Briçonnet is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its death in 1535.
• 1574 : beginning of the seat of Saint-Lo, where, after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Montgommery and Colombières were locked up, after their unloading with the support of the English with Linverville close to Coutances.
• 1767 : Antoine-Joseph of Laurents, is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its death in 1785.
• 1828 : the general Jose Maria Perez de Urdinea seizes the power and becomes the third president of the Republic of Bolivia.
• 1831 : To Madrid (Spain), alternate of Francisco Assemble known as “Paquiro”, Spanish Matador.

20th century

• 1906 : the earthquake of San Francisco (magnitude estimated at 8,5) and the fires which result from it make more 3  000 victims with the the United States.

• 1951 : the Traité of Paris institutes ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community).
• 1954 : Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes the power in Egypt.
• 1955 : opening of the Conference of Bandung.
• 1956 : Civil wedding of Grace Kelly and prince Rainier, in the throne room of the Palate of Monaco. Religious ceremony the following day, April 19th.
• 1974 : Death of the writer and scenario writer Marcel Pagnol.
• 1983 : Attack-suicide with the truck trapped against the American Embassy with Beirut, (Lebanon) asserted by the Hezbollah under the name of Islamic Jihad. Assessment: 63 died and 120 wounded.
• 1985 : election of Jean Hamburger ( the professor Hamburger ) (1909-1992) with the French Academy.
• 1990 : Belgrade raises the state of emergency to the Kosovo.
• 1996 : More than 100 civilians Lebanon board were massacred when Israeli aviation bombarded a camp with Cana under control of the UNO where the population of Cana had taken refuge.

Literature

• 1869 : Henryk Sienkiewicz, 23 years old, future Nobel Prize of Literature (1905), sees its first article published in the Polish press, a theatrical criticism for the Przeglad Tygodniowy

Births

• 1782 : Georg August Goldfuss, paleontologist and German zoologist († 1848)

• 1813: Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter († December 1st, 1879)
• 1882: Leopold Stokowski, British leader naturalized American († September 13rd 1977)
• 1910: Nafissa Sid Cara, first Moslem woman member of the French government († January 1st 2002)
• 1921: Jean Richard, French actor († 2001)
• 1927: Samuel Huntington, American specialist in political science
• 1947: James Woods, American actor
• 1947: Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor
• 1948: Governed Wargnier, French realizer
• 1956: Eric Roberts, American actor and brother of Julia Roberts
• 1958: Laurent Baffie, French humorist
• 1964: Zazie (Isabelle de Truchis de Varenne), French singer
• 1971: David Holding (David McDonald), British actor (Scotland)
• 1974:
• Olivier Besancenot, French politician
• El Califa (Jose Pacheco Rodríguez), Spanish Matador
• 1981: Maxim Iglinskiy, Kazakh racing cyclist professional since 2004.
• 1983: François Clerc, French footballer.

Death

• 1161 : Théobald of the Nozzle, Archbishop of Canterbury

• 1556: Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (° March 6th 1495)
• 1558: Roxelane, wife of Soliman the Magnificent the
• 1608: Jacques-Christophe Blarer de Wartensee, Prince-bishop of Basle of 1575 with 1608.
• 1674 : John Graunt, demographer and statistician English (° April 20th 1620)
• 1690: Charles IV of Lorraine, duke of Lorraine (° April 5th 1643)
• 1763: Corriveau, hung with Quebec for the murder of its second husband
• 1802: Erasmus Darwin, botanist and British physicist (° December 12th 1731)
• 1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (° October 4th 1759)
• 1865: Jean-Marie Leon Dufour, Doctor and Naturalist French (° April 11th 1780)
• 1873: Justus von Liebig, German chemist (° May 12th 1803)
• 1882: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painter, poet and British writer (° May 12th 1828)
• 1883: Edouard Rock, French astronomer (° October 17th 1820)
• 1891: Felix Antoine Appert, soldier and French diplomat of 19th century, Lieutenant-general of army. (° June 12th 1817).
• 1898 : Gustave Moreau, painter, engraver and draftsman French (° April 6th 1926)
• 1935: Panaït Istrati, French-speaking Rumanian writer (° August 10th 1884)
• 1936: Ottorino Respighi, Italian type-setter (° July 9th 1879)
• 1943: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (° April 4th 1884)
• 1945: John Ambrose Fleming, physicist and inventive British (° November 29th 1849)
• 1947: Jozef Tiso, Slovak political personality (° October 13rd 1887)
• 1955: Albert Einstein, German physicist, then Switzerland-states-unien, Nobel Prize of physics 1921 (° March 14th 1879)
• 1964: Ben Hecht, scenario writer states-unien (° February 28th 1894)
• 1974: Marcel Pagnol, writer and scenario writer French (° February 28th 1895)
• 1986: Antonio Lauro, guitarist Venezuelan.
• 1988 : Pierre Desproges, French humorist (° May 9th 1939)
• 1990: Frederic Rossif, French documentalist. (° August 14th 1922)
• 1992: Benny Hill, British humorist, specialized in the roles of idiots. (° January 21st 1924)
• 1996: Piet Hein, scientific Danish (° December 16th 1905)
• 1996: Bernard Edwards, bass player states-unien (° October 31st 1952)
• 2000: Garcimore ( Jose Garcia Moreno ), magician and man of French television (° November 16th 1940)
• 2002: Thor Heyerdahl, adventurous Norwegian (° October 16th 1914)
• 2003: Jean Drucker, chairman of M6 - Metropolis Television (° August 12th 1941)
• 2003: Edgar Frank Codd, British data processing specialist (° August 23rd 1923)
• 2004: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, president of the Fiji (° May 13rd 1920)

Catholic saints of the day

• Holy Perfect

See too

• April 18th in sport
• April 18th in the railroads

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