April 18th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The ephemeris of April 18th, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below, the main ephemeris of April 18th:

• International Day for Monuments and Sites.
• Dominican Broadcaster's Day.
• European Patients' Rights Day.
• World Amateur Radio Day.

Today's Saints: Saints Eleuterius, Crispin, Apollonius, and Perfectus. Saint Antia.

National: April 18th Anniversaries

• 1845: The first Electoral Law of the Republic is enacted by the Executive Branch.
• 1884: Congress issues resolution 22-15 authorizing a trade agreement with the U.S.
• 1893: President Ulises Heureaux and the Haitian Florville Hyppolite meet in Manzanillo Bay, sealing the end of decades of hostilities.
• 1900: Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, liberator of Cuba, arrives in Santo Domingo.
• 1900: A contract is agreed with the Santo Domingo Improvement company to redistribute customs revenues until 1903.
• 1938: The first official examination of announcers in the country is held.
• 1962: President Rafael Bonnelly denounces a plot against the Council of State.
• 1963: The U.S. ambassador to Haiti informs his Dominican counterpart about a coup attempt in the Haitian palace.
• 2007: A mob injures the president of the FED, John García, and sets fire to his vehicle at the UASD.
• 2009: Hillary Clinton tasks President Leonel Fernández with mediating between the U.S. and Latin America.
• 2015: Monsignor Freddy Bretón assumes as archbishop of Santiago.
• 2016: Seven presidential candidates participate in the first televised debate in the entire country.

International: April 18th Anniversaries

• 1506: Pope Julius II lays the first stone of St. Peter's Basilica.
• 1906: Earthquake in San Francisco, California.
• 1909: Beatification of Joan of Arc in Rome.
• 1943: U.S. downs Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's plane.
• 1946: The League of Nations is officially dissolved.
• 1956: Grace Kelly becomes a princess by marrying Rainier III of Monaco.
• 1972: Rodolfo Galimberti presents a key document of Peronist youth.
• 1983: Suicide bombing destroys the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
• 1988: U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iran.
• 1999: John Paul II canonizes Marcellin Champagnat.
• 2011: Cuba approves economic reform plan at the VI Communist Party Congress.
• 2011: Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta as CIA director.
• 2012: Chamber of Deputies of Haiti closed due to the irruption of alleged armed military personnel.
• 2017: Trump's cabinet debates whether the U.S. should remain in the Paris Agreement.
• 2017: In Chile, Edgar Cevallos Jones is released due to dementia, accused of the death of Alberto Bachelet.
• 2023: Putin and Zelensky visit troops on the front lines; U.S. and allies continue to assess military support.
• 2023: Fox News accepts settlement in US$1.6 billion lawsuit for electoral misinformation.

Births: April 18th Anniversaries

• 1480: Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
• 1904: Dorothy Revier, American actress.
• 1938: Lucio Dell'Angelo, Italian footballer and coach.

Deaths: April 18th Anniversaries

• 1955: Albert Einstein, German-American scientist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
• 2006: Rubén Suro, Dominican poet.
• 2009: Elías Wessin y Wessin, retired general and key figure in the Dominican counterrevolution of 1965.