{"id":505032,"date":"2026-04-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/april-18th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:00:00","slug":"april-18th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/april-18th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"April 18th Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>&nbsp;The ephemeris of&nbsp;<strong>April 18th,<\/strong>&nbsp;are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.&nbsp;<strong>Below, the main ephemeris of&nbsp;<strong>April 18th<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/18-de-abril-dia-internacional-de-los-monumentos-y-sitios\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"325669\">International Day for Monuments and Sites<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dominican Broadcaster's Day<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Patients' Rights Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Amateur Radio Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today's Saints:<\/strong> Saints Eleuterius, Crispin, Apollonius, and Perfectus. Saint Antia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: April 18th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1845: The first Electoral Law of the Republic is enacted by the Executive Branch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1884: Congress issues resolution 22-15 authorizing a trade agreement with the U.S.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1893: President Ulises Heureaux and the Haitian Florville Hyppolite meet in Manzanillo Bay, sealing the end of decades of hostilities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1900: Generalissimo M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez, liberator of Cuba, arrives in Santo Domingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1900: A contract is agreed with the Santo Domingo Improvement company to redistribute customs revenues until 1903.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1938: The first official examination of announcers in the country is held.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: President Rafael Bonnelly denounces a plot against the Council of State.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1963: The U.S. ambassador to Haiti informs his Dominican counterpart about a coup attempt in the Haitian palace.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: A mob injures the president of the FED, John Garc\u00eda, and sets fire to his vehicle at the UASD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: Hillary Clinton tasks President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez with mediating between the U.S. and Latin America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Monsignor Freddy Bret\u00f3n assumes as archbishop of Santiago.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Seven presidential candidates participate in the first televised debate in the entire country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International: April 18th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1506: Pope Julius II lays the first stone of St. Peter's Basilica.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1906: Earthquake in San Francisco, California.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1909: Beatification of Joan of Arc in Rome.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1943: U.S. downs Japanese Admiral Yamamoto's plane.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1946: The League of Nations is officially dissolved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1956: Grace Kelly becomes a princess by marrying Rainier III of Monaco.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1972: Rodolfo Galimberti presents a key document of Peronist youth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1983: Suicide bombing destroys the U.S. embassy in Beirut.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1988: U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iran.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1999: John Paul II canonizes Marcellin Champagnat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Cuba approves economic reform plan at the VI Communist Party Congress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta as CIA director.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: Chamber of Deputies of Haiti closed due to the irruption of alleged armed military personnel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Trump's cabinet debates whether the U.S. should remain in the Paris Agreement.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: In Chile, Edgar Cevallos Jones is released due to dementia, accused of the death of Alberto Bachelet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Putin and Zelensky visit troops on the front lines; U.S. and allies continue to assess military support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: Fox News accepts settlement in US$1.6 billion lawsuit for electoral misinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births: April 18th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1480: Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1904: Dorothy Revier, American actress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1938: Lucio Dell'Angelo, Italian footballer and coach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths: April 18th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1955: Albert Einstein, German-American scientist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: Rub\u00e9n Suro, Dominican poet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: El\u00edas Wessin y Wessin, retired general and key figure in the Dominican counterrevolution of 1965.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-&nbsp;The ephemeris of&nbsp;April 18th,&nbsp;are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.&nbsp;Below, the main ephemeris of&nbsp;April 18th: Today&#8217;s Saints: Saints Eleuterius, Crispin, Apollonius, and Perfectus. Saint Antia. 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