Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 18
April 18, 2024 is the 109th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 257 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 18
- 1689 –Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 1831 –The University of Alabama is founded.
- 1880 –An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
- 1881 –Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
- 1912 –The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- 1924 –Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.
- 1942 –Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1945 –Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1958 –A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
- 2007 –The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
Who were born on April 18?
- 1480 –Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
- 1924 –Henry Hyde, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1947 –Jerzy Stuhr, Polish film director and actor
- 1961 –John Podhoretz, American columnist and political pundit
- 1968 –David Hewlett, English born Canadian actor
- 1970 –Greg Eklund, American musician
- 1985 –Elena Temnikova, Russian singer (Serebro)
- 1987 –Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
- 1989 –Jessica (Jessica Jung), American-born South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
- 1989 –Simas Buterlevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
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