Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 18

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  Damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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  Damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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  St. Peter's Basilica in 2004
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  Saint Peter's Basilica by Giovanni Paolo Pannini
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  A B-25 launching from the USS Hornet during Col. Doolittle's Raid
• Ezra Pound
  Ezra Pound
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  Robert Mugabe

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Zimbabwe (1980)	refimprove sections
1506 – Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, to replace the old basilica built in the Template:Nowrap, began.	refimprove section
1738 – By royal decree, King Philip V established the Real Academia de la Historia, tasked with studying the history of Spain.	Undue weight on controversies, lack of sourcing
1847 – Mexican–American War: Winfield Scott's United States troops out-flanked and drove Santa Anna's larger Mexican army from a strong defensive position in the Battle of Cerro Gordo.	self-contradictory
1906 – A major earthquake and resulting fires devastated San Francisco, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving more than half of the city's population homeless.	POTD for 2022
1923 – The New York Yankees of Major League Baseball began playing their games in the newly constructed Yankee Stadium.	refimprove section
1942 – World War II: Sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet carried out the Doolittle Raid, the first Allied attack on the Japanese home islands.	refimprove section
1947 – In one of the largest non-nuclear single explosive detonations in history, the Royal Navy set off 4,000 tonnes of surplus ammunition in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland, Germany.	refimprove, self-contradictory
1955 – Representatives from 29 African and Asian countries met in the inaugural Bandung Conference in Indonesia to promote economic and cultural cooperation.	unsourced material, weasel words in WP voice
1961 – The Soviet Pluton planetary radar performed the first successful radiolocation of the planet Venus.	outdated
1983 – A suicide bomber destroyed the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing over 60 people with a car bomb.	needs more footnotes
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. naval forces attacked Iranian forces in retaliation for damage to the American frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts due to mines in the Persian Gulf.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Provincial militia and citizens in Boston revolted, arresting officials of the Dominion of New England.
• 1864 – American Civil War: African-American Union soldiers were massacred and mutilated during and after the Battle of Poison Spring.
• 1938 – Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of DC Comics, made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic book.
• 1946 – The final session of the League of Nations concluded in Geneva, with delegates agreeing to transfer much of its assets to the United Nations.
• 1958 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., in which he had been incarcerated for twelve years.
• 1980 – Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, beginning a 37-year period in power.
• 1996 – Operation Grapes of Wrath: Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 110 others at a United Nations compound.
• 2007 – A ladle spilled 30 tonnes (33 tons) of molten steel in a factory in Liaoning, China, killing 32 workers.
• 2019 – The United States Department of Justice released a redacted version of the Mueller report about the investigation of Russian influence on the U.S. presidential election to Congress and the public.
• Born/died: | Theobald of Bec |d|1161| Gratian |b|359| Lucrezia Borgia |b|1480| John Leland |d|1552| Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran |b|1838| Ludwig Levy |b|1854| Clara Elsene Peck |b|1883| Bertha Isaacs |b|1900| Pigmeat Markham |b|1904| Martha Ripley |d|1912| Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney |d|1942| Robert Christgau |b|1942| Universo 2000 |b|1963| David Tennant |b|1971| Thepchaiya Un-Nooh |b|1985|

Notes

• Battles of Lexington and Concord appears on April 19; the midnight ride and the 1689 revolt should not appear in the same year

April 18 Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists Paul Revere and William Dawes, later joined by Samuel Prescott, began a midnight ride to warn residents of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, about the impending arrival of British troops.
• 1881 – The painted ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London, were unveiled when the building opened its doors to the public.
• 1915 – World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (pictured) landed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner by German forces.
• 1949 – The Republic of Ireland Act 1948 came into force, describing Ireland as a republic and ending its membership in the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1975 – Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.