On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on April 18:
1480 Lucretia Borgia murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1590 Ahmed I 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)
1764 Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer
1857 Clarence S Darrow defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial
1871 Henry Stephenson British West Indies, actor (Conquest, Little Old New York, Mr Lucky)
1881 Max Weber Polish/Russian/US painter
1889 John Kilbane US, featherweight boxing champion (1912-23)
1903 Leonid Kinskey St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
1908 Henry Guinness missionary
1913 Al Hodge actor (Captain Video)
1921 Barbara Hale Dekalb IL, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
1924 Henry J Hyde (Representative-Republican-IL)
1925 Bob Hastings Brooklyn NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
1925 Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor musician
1934 James Drury New York NY, actor (Virginian)
1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg supreme commander (South Africa army)
1941 Mike Vickers guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1946 Hayley Mills London England, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
1946 Skip Spence Windsor Ontario Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
1947 James Woods Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
1953 Rick Moranis Toronto Ontario Canada, (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
1963 Conan [Christopher] O'Brien Brookline MA, TV host (Late Night)
1971 Kerry Lynn Kemper Miss Nebraska-USA (1996)
1976 Melissa Joan Hart Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
Deaths which occurred on April 18:
0680 Mu'awijja kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
1552 John Leland antiquary, dies
1587 John Foxe author (Book of Martyrs), dies
1610 Robert Parsons English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1845 Nicholas T the Saussure Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1853 William King US Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration
1871 Omar Pasha [Michael Lats] Croatian Governor, dies at 64
1925 Charles Ebbets president (Dodgers), dies
1938 Richard Runciman Terry musicologist, dies
1943 I Yamamoto Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 Cécile Chamindale composer, dies
1945 Ernest T Pyle British/US newscaster, killed on island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. at 44
1955 Albert Einstein German/US physicist (E=MC²), dies
1958 Richard B Goldschmidt German zoologist (butterflies), dies
1960 Emory Johnson director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
1963 Henrietta Kreis 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
1976 Percy Julian holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
1988 An Israeli court convicts John Demjanjuk, a retired auto worker from Cleveland, of committing war crimes at the Treblinka death camp. Israel's Supreme Court later overturned Demjanjuk's conviction
1986 Marcel Dassault [Bloch] French airplane builder, dies at 94
1996 Kalim Siddiqui islamic campaigner, dies at 62
1997 Edward Barker cartoonist, dies at 46
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
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04/18/04 Claunch, Herbert R Master Sergeant 58 Army National Guard 217th Military Police Company Non-hostile Guantanamo Bay Wetumpka Alabama
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0310 St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0387 Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus
1521 Parliament of Worms Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther
1663 Osman declares war on Austria
1676 Sudbury MA attacked by Indians
1775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
1778 John Paul Jones attackes the British revenue cutter Husar near the Isle of Man, but it escaped. Soon thereafter he raided Whitehaven and burned one coal ship
1818 First Seminole War ends.
1838 Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1861 Battle of Harpers Ferry WV
1862 Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA
1864 Battle of Poison Springs AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina
1876 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 minutes
1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins
1890 New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1899 John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1904 L'Humanité, under Jean Jaurès begins publishing
1906 San Francisco earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1909 Joan of Arc declared a saint
1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs CO
1923 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
1923 Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 World's fair opens in Chicago
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth TX)
1934 Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament (Oh that Adolf!! What a joker)
1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco CA to Honolulu HI
1938 Headless Mad Butcher victim found in Cleveland
1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 First US air strike against Japan, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (d.1993), raids Tokyo and other Japanese cities. 16 U.S. Army B-25 bombers broke through Japanese defenses to strike Tokyo and other cities in broad daylight. The North-American B-25B Mitchells were launched from the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet, and after striking their targets, flew on to China. 2 of the 80 men drowned. 3 of 8 captured by the Japanese were executed and 1 died in a prison camp. Doolittle later became the commander general of the Eighth Air Force.
1943 Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1945 1 armed outfielder, St Louis Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4
1946 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts)
1946 US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip
1950 Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1951 France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community (Start of EU)
1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
1955 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1956 Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1963 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1964 Geraldine Mock of US becomes 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1964 Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1966 Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi
1975 John Lennon releases "Stand by Me"
1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray hits his 1st homerun
1978 Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on Dec 31, 1999
1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1982 Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare
1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon
1986 Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines
1990 Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1991 Congress ends railroad workers' 1 day strike
1991 Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1994 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994 (3 people watched it)
1994 Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later
1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years
1995 Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football
1996 Islamic terrorists killed 18 Greek tourists and wounded 15 others in an attack on tourists at the Egyptian pyramids.
1997 It was reported that measurements by scientists suggest that the universe may have an “up” and a “down.” “This axis of orientation is not a physical entity, but rather defines a direction of space that somehow determines how light travels throughout the universe.” The measurements were later considered flawed because the scientists examined polarized radio waves, which oscillate in only one direction.
2000 Robert L. Yates Jr. was arrested in Spokane, Wash., (Yates later confessed to killing 13 people, and was sentenced to 408 years in prison.)
1998 It was reported that Richard Mellon Scaife, 4th generation heir to the Mellon banking fortune, had donated million of dollars over more than 30 years to conservative groups and research centers. He had also supported groups critical of Pres. Clinton. (HOW DARE HE!!! Hangin's to good for him)
1999 Seven provincial capitals in the Kurdish region elected leaders of the Kurdish nationalist party as mayors
2000 In Zimbabwe Martin Olds, a white cattle rancher, was fatally shot by "squatters"(ie: Government thugs)
2002 Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zaher Shah, returned to his country after 29 years in exile
2003 Burt Rutan, aircraft designer, unveiled SpaceShipOne, a rocket-powered spacecraft. He hoped to win the $10 million 1996 X Prize, offered for the 1st private launch of 3-people to an altitude of 62.5 miles twice in 2 weeks.
2003 31st day of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqi opposition leader Ahmad Chalabi said he expects an Iraqi interim authority to take over most government functions from the U.S. military in "a matter of weeks rather than months.
Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim (4 of clubs), a senior leader of the shattered Baath party, was handed over to US forces overnight by Iraqi Kurds near the northern city of Mosul. US troops in Baghdad uncovered numerous boxes of UC currency estimated at $650 million.
Iraqi police captured Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi (8 of diamonds), a deputy prime minister and number 45 on an American list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis.
2004 Hamas secretly appointed a new Gaza Strip chief. Dr. Mahmoud Zahar was appointed as the group's 3rd leader
2004 Moammar Gadhafi calls for the abolition of Libya's three decade-old exceptional courts and other strict laws criticized by human rights groups.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Oklahoma : 89'ers Day rodeos commemorate opening of Oklahoma in 1889
Zimbabwe : Independence Day (1989)
US : American Home Week Begins
US : Astronomy Week Begins
US : Boys and Girls Club Week Begins
US : National Coin Week Begins
US : National Lingerie Week Begins
US : Time Out Day
International Juggler's Day
Pet Owners Independence Day
Minnesota Authors Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
Jewish : Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5753 AM)
Orthodox : Orthodox Easter (3/5 OS)
Religious History
1521 German reformer Martin Luther, at the Diet of Worms, proclaimed that a biblical foundation supported the theological position of his "Ninety-Five Theses." Luther ended his defense with the famous words: 'Here I stand! I can do nothing else! God help me! Amen.'
1606 In Rome, Julius II laid the foundation stone of the second building of St. Peter's Basilica. Completed 20 years later by Urban VIII, St. Peter's today is the largest church in Christendom, with an overall length of 619 feet.
1874 In England, the remains of Scottish missionary David Livingstone (who had died the previous year in Africa at age 60) were interred in London's Westminster Abbey.
1882 Birth of George S. Schuler, American music educator. Affiliated with Moody Bible Institute for 40 years, Schuler is remembered today for composing the melody to the hymn, "Make Me a Blessing."
1930 American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'After an hour of close friendship with God, my soul feels clean as new fallen snow.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"MONDAY. It's no way to spend 1/7th of your life"
