On this day...

[Alexa]

Tuesday, April 18

 

Today is Tuesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2006. There are 257 days left in the year.

 

Highlights in history on this date.

 

1328 - Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV deposes Pope John XXII, but John stays on and the antipope Louis installed in Rome wins little support and abdicates two years later.

 

1663 - Turks declare war against Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I.

 

1775 - Paul Revere makes his legendary ride to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, conveying the warning that the British were coming.

 

1797 - Austria and France sign preliminary peace at Loeben.

 

1858 - A 60-day-long rainfall begins in Chicago.

 

1864 - Danish forces are defeated at Duppel, and German troops invade Denmark.

 

1906 - Earthquake rocks San Francisco, California, touching off fires that almost destroy city and killing about 700 people.

 

1924 - Simon and Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book in the United States.

 

1934 - The first US coin-operated laundry opens in Fort Worth, Texas.

 

1942 - Lt Gen James Doolittle leads the first US air raid on Japan in World War 2.

 

1946 - The League of Nations comes to an end.

 

1955 - Eminent scientist Dr Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, dies in hospital aged 76.

 

1965 - Uganda becomes first noncommunist nation to formally denounce US involvement in Vietnam.

 

1976 - About 40 000 Israelis march into occupied West Bank, demanding that Israel annex the territory.

 

1978 - The US Senate votes 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on Dec 31, 1999.

 

1980 - Former Rhodesia becomes independent Zimbabwe.

 

1983 - Sixty-two people, including 17 Americans, are killed at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

 

1986 - Angry crowds protest outside American embassies throughout the world as backlash continues against US attack on Libya.

 

1988 - US Navy destroys two offshore Iranian oil platforms and bombs two Iranian Navy frigates in retaliation for a mine explosion that damaged US frigate.

 

1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy try to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.

 

1990 - Eleven school children and four others are killed when a school bus is set ablaze by street-fighting in Beirut.

 

1991 - Iraq submits list of chemical and biological weapons capabilities and nuclear facilities to the UN secretary-general.

 

1992 - Russian lawmakers endorse a new constitution that would reduce President Boris Yeltsin's powers.

 

1993 - President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of Pakistan dismisses the government and dissolves parliament, the culmination of a bitter power struggle with the prime minister.

 

1994 - Former President Richard M Nixon suffers a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey.; he dies four days later at a New York hospital.

 

1995 - Nato jets buzz overhead to calm a battle in the suburbs of Sarajevo, Bosnia, that threatens to spiral out of control.

 

1996 - A passenger train collides with a stopped freight train at a railroad station in central India, killing at least 60 people.

 

1997 - Hundreds of Zairians riot against Rwandan refugees, looting food intended for them.

 

1998 - The first official talks in four years between North and South Korea end with the two sides unable to resolve a dispute over aid to the starving North and reuniting families.

 

1999 - The 25th straight day of NATO attacks on Yugoslavia is the most intense yet, with 500 missions pummeling refineries, bridges and dozens of other targets.

 

2001 - US and Chinese diplomats begin talks over the April 1 collision of a U.S. spy plane and Chinese fighter jet.

 

2002 - A US Air National Guard fighter pilot, apparently in the mistaken belief that he was under attack, drops a bomb on Canadian soldiers carrying out a training exercise near Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing four Canadians and wounding eight others.

 

2003 - The leaders of Taiwan's two main opposition parties, Lien Chan of the Nationalist Party and James Soong of the People First Party, announce plans to run together in a presidential election scheduled for March 2004 against incumbent Chen Shui-bian.

 

2004 - A priest in Wyoming accused of molesting a teenage boy pleads no contest in the case, but argues that he committed the acts in question for spiritual reasons and not sexual gratification. Anthony Jablonowski, 69, is sentenced to between 15 months and seven years in prison.

 

Today's Birthdays:

 

Leopold Stokowski, English-born conductor (1882-1977); Franz von Suppe, Austrian-born composer (1819-1895); Ian Smith, Rhodesian leader (1919--); Tadeusz Mazowiecki, first post-communist prime minister of Poland (1927--); Hayley Mills, English actress (1946--); James Woods, US actor (1947--); Jane Leeves, US actress (1963--).

 

Thought For Today:

 

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power

- Abraham Lincoln, US president (1809-1865)

[mazceline]

you must have been bored typing all that , but interesting are you gonna right one for every day now that would be interesting

[Bellamy]

3 years ago on this day. April 18, 2003. #Celine_Dion IRC channel was founded. That's the very beginning of Celine Channel.

[celinedionsfan]

Happy Anniversary!!

Congratulations!

And THANK YOU!

 

[HelenCeline27]

wow thanks for the info

[cdclore]

Today is also my grandmother's birthday. I'm sure you all really care, but still, lol.