Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April 18
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- 1025 - Boleslaw I Chrobry is crowned as the first in history king of Poland.
- 1506 - Construction of St. Peter's Basilica (pictured right) in Vatican City began.
- 1518 - Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland.
- 1775 - Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons. Only Prescott finishes the ride.
- 1906 - A very large earthquake hit San Francisco, California.
- 1942 - World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Tokyo occurs.
- 1947 - The British Royal Navy detonated 6,800 tonnes of explosives in a concerted attempt to destroy the small island of Heligoland, Germany, creating the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.
- 1955 - The first Bandung Conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia, with the aim of promoting Afro-Asian economic and cultural co-operation and opposing colonialism or neocolonialism.
- 1955 - Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- 1980 - The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) came into being.
- 1983 - A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
- 1996 - Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre).
- 2002 - A new order of insects, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.
