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-*[[1776]], April 18: In a letter from the [[Marquis de Sade]] to his wife: +*[[1521]] – Trial of [[Martin Luther]] begins its second day during the assembly of the [[Diet of Worms]]. He refuses to recant his [[Lutheranism|teachings]] despite the risk of excommunication.
-:I am in a tower closed in by nineteen iron doors, with light reaching me only through two little windows, each with a score of iron bars. He complains that in over the two months he has been in prison he has been allowed only five walks of one hour each, in a sort of tomb about fourty feet square surrounded by walls more than fifty feet high ...--source unidentified+*[[1776]] - In a letter from the [[Marquis de Sade]] to his wife [[Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil]]:
 +:"I am in a tower closed in by nineteen iron doors, with light reaching me only through two little windows, each with a score of iron bars." --[[1776 April 18|[...]]]
 +*[[1980]] - [[Bob Marley]] gives a concert in [[Harare]], starting [[African reggae]].
==Births== ==Births==
*[[1480]] - [[Lucrezia Borgia]], Florentine ruler and daughter of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1519]]) *[[1480]] - [[Lucrezia Borgia]], Florentine ruler and daughter of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (d. [[1519]])
*[[1580]] - [[Thomas Middleton]], English dramatist (d. [[1627]]) *[[1580]] - [[Thomas Middleton]], English dramatist (d. [[1627]])
*[[1648]] - [[Madame de Guyon]], French mystic (''A Short and Easy Method of Prayer'') (d. [[1717]]) *[[1648]] - [[Madame de Guyon]], French mystic (''A Short and Easy Method of Prayer'') (d. [[1717]])
 +*[[1901]] - [[Alexandre Alexeieff]], Russian-born animator (d. [[1982]])
*[[1904]] - [[Giuseppe Terragni]], Italian architect (d. [[1943]]) *[[1904]] - [[Giuseppe Terragni]], Italian architect (d. [[1943]])
-*[[1918]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish director (''Babette's Feast'') +*[[1918]] - [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish director (''Babette's Feast'') (d. [[2014]])
*[[1918]] - [[André Bazin]], French film critic an theorist (d. [[1958]]) *[[1918]] - [[André Bazin]], French film critic an theorist (d. [[1958]])
*[[1925]] - [[Bob Kaufman]], American poet (d. [[1986]]) *[[1925]] - [[Bob Kaufman]], American poet (d. [[1986]])

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