Historical Events on April 18.

1.  International Day For Monuments and Sites

2.  1336, 18th April: Harihar and Bukka established the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar.

3.  1831, 18th April: Establishment of the University of Alabama.

4.  1859, 18th April: Tatya Tope, leader of the 1857 Rebellion, was executed.

5.  1898, 18th April: Damodar Chapekar, assassinator British officer Rand, was executed.

6.  1912, 18th April: Carpathia arrived in New York with 705 survivors aboard the Titanic.

7.  1924, 18th April: Simon and Schuster published the first book of crossword puzzles.

8.  1930, 18th April: Surya Sen and 62 people from the Indian Republican Army attacked the Chittagong Shastra.

9.  1936, 18th April: Shaniwarwada in Pune, the Peshwa’s capital, handed over to the Archaeological Department.

10.  1950, 18th April: Vinoba Bhave’s Bhudan movement started in Pochampalli village in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana).

11.  1954, 18th April: Gamal Abdel Nasser took power in Egypt.

12.  1971, 18th April: 1971: Air India’s first Boeing 747 jumbo jet arrived at Santa Cruz Airport.

13.  1991, 18th April: Kerala became the first fully literate state of India.

14.  2001, 18th April: GSLV-D1 carrier launched successfully from Sriharikota base.

15.  2020, 18th April: Coronavirus Pandemic: Europe surpassed 100,000 COVID -19 deaths.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on April 18.

1.  1809: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, an Indian poet of English.

2.  1858: Dhondo Keshav Karve, a social reformer in India.

3.  1916: Lalita Pawar, an Indian actress.

4.  1958: Malcolm Marshall, a Barbadian cricketer. 

5.  1962: Poonam Dhillon, an Indian Hindi-language film, theatre, and TV actress.

6.  1963: Conan O’Brien, an American television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer. 

7.  1992: KL Rahul, an Indian international cricketer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on April 18.

1.  1859: Tatya Tope, an Indian revolutionary.

2.  1898: Damodar Hari Chafekar, an Indian revolutionary.

3.  1945: Sir John Ambrose Fleming, an English electrical engineer, and physicist.

4.  1955: Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

5.  1966: Swami Kuvalayananda, a researcher and educator.

6.  1999: Raghuveer Singh, an internationally acclaimed Indian photographer.

7.  2002: Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer, and ethnographer.