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-*[[1025]] - [[Boleslaw I of Poland|Bolesław I the Brave]] was crowned in [[Gniezno]], becoming the first [[List of Polish monarchs|King]] of [[Poland]].  
-*[[1506]] - The [[cornerstone]] of the current [[St. Peter's Basilica]] is laid. 
-*[[1518]] - [[Bona Sforza]] is crowned as [[queen consort]] of [[Poland]]. 
-*[[1775]] - [[American Revolution]]: Two lanterns were hung in the steeple of the [[Old North Church]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], indicating [[Battles of Lexington and Concord|British advancement by sea]]; [[Paul Revere]], [[William Dawes]] and [[Samuel Prescott]] ride to warn of impending arrests of [[Samuel Adams]] and [[John Hancock]].  
-*[[1797]] - [[Battle of Neuwied (1797)|Battle of Neuwied]] - [[France|French]] victory against the [[Austria]]ns. 
-*[[1880]] - An [[Fujita scale|F4]] [[tornado]] strikes [[Marshfield, Missouri|Marshfield]], [[Missouri]], killing 99 people and injuring 100. 
-*[[1881]] - [[Billy the Kid]] escapes from his two jailers at the [[Lincoln County, New Mexico|Lincoln County]] jail in [[Mesilla]], [[New Mexico]], killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town. 
-*[[1899]] - [[St. Andrew's Ambulance Association]] is granted a [[Royal Charter]] by [[Queen Victoria]]. 
-*[[1906]] - An [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|earthquake]] with an estimated magnitude of 7.9 destroys much of [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]], [[California]].  
-* 1906 - The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' runs a front-page story on the [[Azusa Street Revival]], launching [[Pentecostalism]] as a worldwide movement. 
-*[[1909]] - [[Joan of Arc]] is beatified in [[Rome]]. 
-*[[1915]] - [[France|French]] pilot [[Roland Garros (aviator)|Roland Garros]] was shot down and glided to a landing on the [[Germany|German]] side of the lines during [[World War I]].  
-*[[1923]] - [[Yankee Stadium]], "The House that [[Babe Ruth|Ruth]] Built", opens. 
-*[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: The [[Doolittle Raid]] on [[Tokyo]] occurs. 
-* 1942 - [[Pierre Laval]] becomes [[Prime Minister]] of [[Vichy France]]. 
-*[[1943]] - [[World War II]]: "Operation Peacock", [[Isoroku Yamamoto]] is [[Death of Isoroku Yamamoto|killed]] when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over the [[Solomon Islands]]. 
-*[[1945]] - Over 1,000 [[bomber|bombers]] attack the small island of [[Heligoland]], [[Germany]]. 
-*[[1946]] - The [[League of Nations]] is dissolved. 
-*[[1949]] - The [[Republic of Ireland Act]] comes into force. 
-*[[1954]] - [[Gamal Abdal Nasser]] seizes power in [[Egypt]]. 
-*[[1958]] - A [[United States|U.S.]] federal court rules that [[poet]] [[Ezra Pound]] be released from an [[insane asylum]]. 
-*[[1961]] - [[Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas|CONCP]] is founded in [[Casablanca]] as a united front of [[African]] movements opposing [[Portugal|Portuguese]] colonial rule. 
-*[[1974]] - [[Prime Minister]] of [[Pakistan]] [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] inaugurates [[Lahore]] [[Dry port]]. 
-* 1974 - [[Italy|Italian]] [[prosecutor]] Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the [[Red Brigades]]. 
-*[[1980]] - The [[Republic]] of [[Zimbabwe]] (formerly [[Rhodesia]]) comes into being, with [[Canaan Banana]] as the country's first [[List of Presidents of Zimbabwe|President]]. 
-*[[1983]] - A [[suicide bomber]] [[April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing|destroys the United States embassy]] in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]], killing 63 people. 
-*[[1988]] - [[United States|U.S.]] launches [[Operation Praying Mantis]] against [[Iran]]ian naval forces in the largest naval battle since [[World War II]]. 
-*[[1992]] - [[General]] [[Abdul Rashid Dostum]] revolted against [[President of Afghanistan|President]] [[Mohammad Najibullah]] of the [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan]] and allied with [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]] to capture [[Kabul]]. 
-*[[1993]] - [[President of Pakistan]], [[Ghulam Ishaq Khan]] dissolves the [[National Assembly of Pakistan|National Assembly]] and dismisses Cabinet. 
-*[[1994]] - [[Richard Nixon]], former [[President of the United States]], suffers a stroke and dies four days later. 
-*[[1996]] - In [[Lebanon]], at least 106 civilians are killed when the [[Israel Defense Forces]] shell the [[UN]] compound at [[Qana Massacre|Quana]]. 
-*[[1999]] - Hockey legend [[Wayne Gretzky]] played his last NHL game in New York against the [[Pittsburgh Penguins]]. 
-*[[2007]] - The US [[Supreme Court of the United States| Supreme Court]] upheld the [[Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act]] in a 5-4 decision. 
-* 2007 - 32 [[China|Chinese]] [[steel]] workers burn to death in the [[Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster]]. 
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==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]])

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1776, April 18: In a letter from the Marquis de Sade to his wife:

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

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Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 in Manhattan—November 30, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) was an experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, ...

James Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. Born in Vernal, Utah, he grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island where he attended Pilgrim High ...

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Martin Hannett (May 1948 - April 18, 1991) was an innovative record producer, closely associated with Joy Division and Factory Records. ...

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