Year 1336
Harihar and Bukka established the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar.
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18 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 18 April.
Observances & Special Days
World Heritage Day
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zimbabwe from the United Kingdom in 1980.
Army Day (Iran)
Year 1831
Establishment of the University of Alabama.
Year 1859
Tatya Tope, leader of the 1857 Rebellion, was executed.
Year 1898
Damodar Chapekar, assassinator British officer Rand, was executed.
Year 1912
Carpathia arrived in New York with 705 survivors aboard the Titanic.
Year 1924
Simon and Schuster published the first book of crossword puzzles.
Year 1930
Surya Sen and 62 people from the Indian Republican Army attacked the Chittagong Shastra.
Year 1936
Shaniwarwada in Pune, the Peshwa’s capital, handed over to the Archaeological Department.
Year 1950
Vinoba Bhave’s Bhudan movement started in Pochampalli village in Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana).
Year 1954
Gamal Abdel Nasser took power in Egypt.
Year 1971
1971: Air India’s first Boeing 747 jumbo jet arrived at Santa Cruz Airport.
Year 1991
Kerala became the first fully literate state of India.
Year 2001
GSLV-D1 carrier launched successfully from Sriharikota base.
Year 2020
Coronavirus Pandemic: Europe surpassed 100,000 COVID -19 deaths.
Born 1809
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, an Indian poet of English.
Born 1858
Dhondo Keshav Karve, a social reformer in India.
Born 1910
Vishwanath Nageshkar, Indian, Govekar painter.
Born 1916
Lalita Pawar, an Indian actress.
Born 1958
Malcolm Marshall, a Barbadian cricketer.
Born 1962
Poonam Dhillon, an Indian Hindi-language film, theatre, and TV actress.
Born 1963
Conan O’Brien, an American television host, comedian, writer, podcaster, and producer.
Born 1992
KL Rahul, an Indian international cricketer.
Died 1859
Tatya Tope, an Indian revolutionary.
Died 1898
Damodar Hari Chafekar, an Indian revolutionary.
Died 1945
Sir John Ambrose Fleming, an English electrical engineer, and physicist.
Died 1955
Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
Died 1859
Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
Died 1955
Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
Died 1966
Swami Kuvalayananda, a researcher and educator.
Died 1972
Pandurang Waman Kanke
Died 1999
Raghuveer Singh, an internationally acclaimed Indian photographer.
Died 2002
Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer, and ethnographer.