April 18

Portrait of St. Eusebius 310: St. Eusebius of Vercelli starts his rule as Catholic Pope.

Painting of Martin Luther 1521: Martin Luther stands up to the sovereign Charles V, declining to withdraw views which prompted his excommunication. 1676: Sudbury, Massachusetts is assaulted by native Indians.

Painting of Paul Revere

Painting of William Dawes 1775: American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride through the towns of Massachusetts warning that "the British are coming."

Portrait of Louis XVI 1791: National Guardsmen stop Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris. 1818: A regiment of Indians and blacks is vanquished at the Battle of Suwannee, in Florida, finishing the First Seminole War.

Portrait of William Lamb 1834: William Lamb becomes the prime minister of England.

Commodore Charles Wilkes, commander of the Expedition 1838: The Wilkes' expedition toward the South Pole sets sail. 1847: U.S. forces vanquish Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest skirmish's of the Mexican-American War. 1853: The first train in Asia starts running from Bombay to Tanna.

Photo of Colonel Robert E. Lee 1861: Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to take charge of the Union armed forces. 1895: The First Sino-Japanese War closes. 1906: An enormous earthquake hits San Francisco, measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale.

Photo of Babe Ruth 1923: Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1.

Photo of Leon Trotsky 1937: Leon Trotsky calls for the ousting of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/James_H_Doolittle.jpg Photo of General James H. Doolittle 1942: General James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese urban areas.

Photo of Isoroku Yamamoto 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the genius of the assault on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighter planes. 1946: The League of Nations breaks down. 1949: The Republic of Ireland withdraws from the British Commonwealth. 1950: The first transoceanic jet passenger plane flight is completed. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Gamal-002.jpg Photo of Gamal Abdel Nasser (middle) 1954: Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes control of Egypt. 1978: The U.S. Senate supports the exchange of the Panama Canal to Panama. 1980: Zimbabwe's (Rhodesia) formal freedom from Britain is proclaimed. 1983: A suicide plane murders U.S. Marines at the U.S. Government office in Lebanon. Born on April 18

Painting of Lucretia Borgia 1480 Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI.

Portrait of George Henry Lewes 1817: George Henry Lewes, philosophical essayist.

Photo of Clarence S. Darrow 1857: Clarence S. Darrow, legal advisor. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Richard_Harding_Davis.jpg Photo of Richard Harding Davis 1864: Richard Harding Davis, columnist. 1918: Clifton Keith Hillegass, founder of the study guides known as Cliff's Notes. 1940: Ed Garvey, labor leader. All images are supplied by Wikimedia creative commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page