April 18: Tax Day in the United States (2017)
Bolesław I of Poland
- 1025 – Bolesław I the Brave (pictured) became the first King of Poland.
- 1689 – Provincial militia and citizens gathered in Boston, and arrested officials of the Dominion of New England.
- 1909 - The ceremony of Joan of Arc's beatification was held in Rome.
- 1958 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he had been incarcerated for twelve years.
- 1996 – Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, during Operation Grapes of Wrath, killing more than 100 civilians and injuring more than 110 others at a UN compound.
Lucrezia Borgia (b. 1480) · John Leland (d. 1552) · Albert Einstein (d. 1955)
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