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What happened in history on this day: April 18?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On April 18 in ...
- 1983 - Osborne Computer introduces The Osborne Executive portable computer. It features 4 MHz Z80A CPU, 128 kB RAM, 7-inch amber monitor, 24x80 text, detachable keyboard, two 204 kB 5.25-inch disk drives, two serial and one parallel ports, CP/M Plus, UCSD p-System, Wordstar, Supercalc, MBASIC, CBASIC, Personal Pearl. Weighing 28 pounds, it is priced at US$2495.
- 1983 - Osborne Computer introduces The Osborne Executive II portable computer. It is like the Executive, and adds a coprocessor board with a 4 MHz 8088 running MS-DOS or CP/M-86, and 630x200 graphics. Price is US$3195.
- 1988 - Dell announces its first PC using IBM's Micro Channel bus.
- 1989 - Quarterdeck Office Systems is granted a patent by the US Patent Office entitled "An Improved Display System and Memory Architecture and Method for Displaying Images in Windows on a Video Display". The technology allows multiple MS-DOS programs to run simultaneously in separate windows.
- 2003 - Intel halts the release of the 3 GHz Pentium 4 with 800 MHz bus, due to an anomoly.
- 2005 - Adobe Systems announces a US$3.4 billion bid to acquire Macromedia.
- 2005 - Intel releases the 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor, with dual cores, each with 1 MB level 2 cache. The processor incorporates 230 million transistors. Price is US$999 in 1000-unit quantities.
- 1927 - Film Booking Offices releases the Alice Comedy film Alice's Circus Daze to theaters. This film debuts Lois Hardwick as Alice, the fourth and final actor of the series.
- 1930 - Disney completes the Silly Symphony film Night.
- 1936 - The Silly Symphony film Three Little Wolves is released to theaters.
- 1947 - The Donald Duck film Straight Shooters is released. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1953 - The Mickey Mouse film The Simple Things is released. Pluto also appears.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel, a cable-TV network, begins broadcasting, at 7:00 AM, with a show called Good Morning, Mickey. The service runs for 18 hours per day.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the EPCOT Magazine show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series You and Me, Kid.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series New! Animal World.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series Welcome to Pooh Corner.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series The Scheme of Things.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the series Contraption.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the Mousercise show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing the Mouseterpiece Theater show.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel begins airing re-runs of the Zorro show.
- 1983 - The Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner opens in World Bazaar at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1994 - The Beauty and the Beast stage play opens at the Palace Theater in New York.
- 1997 - Disney announces it will acquire Starwave's Family Planet Web site, combining it with Family.com.
- 1997 - Joining of the two halves of the Disney Magic cruise ship is complete.
- 1998 - Disney launches the Toon Disney cable television network.
- 1998 - The name of the Festival of Foods area in Frontierland at Disneyland is changed back to Big Thunder Barbecue.
- 1998 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame show in Frontierland at Disneyland closes.
- 2002 - The Primeval Whirl roller coaster opens in Chester & Hester's Dino-Rama! in DinoLand U.S.A. in Disney's Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
- 2003 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures film Holes to theaters in the US.
- 2010 - The ABC Family Original Movie Beauty and the Briefcase airs.
- 2014 - Disney releases the Disneynature film Bears to theaters in the USA.
- 1959 - At the Marlboro Raceway in Maryland, the SCCA President's Cup race is held. Bill Mitchell's red Sting Ray racer makes its racing debut. Richard Thompson races it to fourth place overall, first in class.
- 1971 - In Danville, Virginia, a 300-mile IMSA race is held.
- Finishing 1st in GTO class and 2nd overall is the Or Costanzo #57 1969 Corvette L-88 driven by Dave Heinz.
- Finishing 2nd in GTO class and 18th overall is the #15 Corvette driven by Mel Shaw and Cress Taylor.
- 2002 - At the National Corvette Museum, the C5 Birthday Bash is held, over three days. The Museum raffles off a 2002 Electron Blue Z06 Corvette.
- 2004 - At the Long Beach Street Circuit in Long Beach, California, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach race is held, round one of the Motorock Trans-Am Series.
- Finishing 7th is the Hypermax Racing #83 Corvette, driven by Max Lagod.
- Finishing 9th is the Simms Motorsports #24 Corvette, driven by Philip Simms.
- Finishing 10th is the Derhag Motorsports #49 Corvette, driven by Randy Ruhlman.
- Finishing 12th is the #23 Corvette, driven by Bob Ruman.
- In 13th place, but not finishing the race, is the #06 Corvette, driven by Joey Scarallo.
- In 14th place, but not finishing the race, is the Lajas Racing #72 Corvette, driven by Edison Lluch.
- 1939 - USSR leader Josef Stalin proposes a triple treaty defensive alliance of Great Britain, France, and the USSR against Germany.
- 1940 - Allies land off Andalsnes, Norway.
- 1942 - Pierre Laval becomes head of France Vichy Government.
- 1942 - Japanese patrol boat The Nitto Maru spots US task force with aircraft carrier Hornet carrying bombers for mission over Japan. The boat is sunk, but is assumed to have alerted Japan of the location of the ships.
- 1942 - The United States Army imposes a blackout of city lights on American east coast cities, to help protect ships from being seen by enemy submarines.
- 1942 - (about 1215 hours) Sixteen American B-25 bombers lead by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle bomb Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe, Japan. The planes were launched from the carrier Hornet 668 miles off Tokyo. 73 of the 80 crew survive as the planes land and crash in China.
- 1943 - US Navy planes shoot down the Japanese transport plane flying Admiral Isokuro Yamamoto (killing him) from Rabaul to the Solomon Islands. Sixteen American P-38G Lightening attack fighters from their base 430 miles away in Guadalcanal attack the three transport bombers and six Zero fighter planes. All but one P-38G fighter returns to base.
- 1943 - (evening) 178 British bombers attack La Spezia, Italy, again. One destroyer is sunk, but the target three battleships are unharmed.
- 1945 - 969 British bombers attack Heligoland island, destroying every building and most of the radar and flak defences.
- 1945 - About 320,000 German troops in Army Group B surrender in the Ruhr.
- 1945 - British 30th Corps begins operations against Bremen, Germany.
- 1945 - Death of Ernie Pyle, war correspondent, on Okinawa, shot by Japanese gun fire.
- 1990 - The Gambia issues fourteen postage stamps depicting British RAF World War II fighter planes.
- 1992 - Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, Japan.
- 1993 - Marshall Islands issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the interception of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
- 2002 - Microsoft announces a price drop on the Xbox in the United Kingdom from 299 pounds to 199.99 pounds as of April 26.
- 2006 - Nintendo releases the Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! video game for the Nintendo DS in the USA.
- 1632 - King Gustav Adolf arrives at Ingolstadt, a new fortress with excellent defences, a strong garrison under Tilly's nephew, and the Bavarian army nearby.
- 1635 - Axel Oxenstierna and French Cardinal Richelieu sign the Treaty of Compiègne in Paris, France. Sweden gains control of the Rhine area from Breisach to Strasbourg, and France accepts Sweden as an equal ally, and agrees to declare war on Spain. Both parties agree to assist Protestants in Germany by force, and not to obtain a separate peace.
- 2013 - (to April 21) CICF show, Heritage Auction of Nikita Collection of Canadian Coins, Canada 1-cent 1936 with dot, MS-63 PCGS: US$210,000 + 17.5% buyer's fee.
- 1831 - The President authorizes coinage of silver dollars again.
- 1911 - The Denver Mint strikes its first quarter eagles.
- 2010 - (to April 24) National Coin Week, sponsored by the American Numismatic Association. This year's theme is "Beautiful Places: Landmarks and Mintmarks".
- 1869 - First international cricket match, held in San Francisco, is won by a Californian.
- 1899 - John McGraw, at age 36, makes managerial debut as Baltimore Orioles' manager.
- 1908 - Tommy Burns knocks out Jewy Smith in five for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1918 - Cleveland Indians' center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play.
- 1922 - Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0.
- 1923 - 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, USA.
- 1935 - General Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th wins him his second Masters tournament of golf.
- 1942 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3.
- 1944 - 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Coté of Canada in 2:31:50.4. This is his second straight and third career win.
- 1946 - Jackie Robinson debuts as second baseman for the Montreal Royals.
- 1950 - First opening night-game, Saint Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2.
- 1950 - New York Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Boston Red Sox 9-0 in 6th inning.
- 1954 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open.
- 1958 - National League single-game attendance record of 78,682, San Francisco Giants lose to Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5, in Los Angeles, California.
- 1959 - NHL Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1.
- 1962 - 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3.
- 1963 - Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1.
- 1964 - Sandy Koufax is first to strike out the side on 9 pitches.
- 1968 - First ABA basketball championship begins.
- 1971 - Gavaskar makes 220 in second inning versus West Indies after 124 in first.
- 1971 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic.
- 1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten - Ping Golf Open.
- 1977 - 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33.
- 1977 - 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46.
- 1977 - Baltimore Orioles' Eddie Murray hits his first homerun.
- 1981 - A Minor League baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
- 1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International.
- 1982 - Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Houston Astros).
- 1983 - 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43.
- 1983 - 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Massachusetts in 2:09:00.
- 1987 - Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race.
- 1987 - Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs. Robinson-Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1987 - Pat Knauff, France sets one-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph).
- 1988 - 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30.
- 1988 - 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43.
- 1990 - Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in the WLAF.
- 1991 - John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136.
- 1991 - A sellout crowd of 42,191 watch the Chicago White Sox play their first game at new Comiskey Park and sees the home team get crushed by the Detroit Tigers, 16-0.
- 1992 - Start of South Africa's first Test Cricket since 1970 (versus West Indies Bridgetown).
- 1993 - 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo.
- 1993 - Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship.
- 1994 - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45.
- 1994 - 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15.
- 1994 - Brian Lara scores 375 for West Indies versus England to beat Sobers' world record.
- 1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football.
- 1999 - "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky plays his final National Hockey League game.
- 2010 - Kevin Martin defeats Brad Gushue 8-7 at the Grey Power Players' Championship curling event, in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2021 - Twelve football clubs, including three from La Liga and leading clubs from the Premier League and Serie A, agree to join a new breakaway European Super League, prompting international condemnation.
- 2022 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats Atlanta Braves by score 7-4.
- 2022 - At Petco Park in San Diego, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: San Diego Padres beats Cincinnati Reds by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Oakland Athletics beats Baltimore Orioles by score 5-1.
- 2022 - At Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Colorado Rockies beats Philadelphia Phillies by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Houston Astros beats Los Angeles Angels by score 8-3.
- 2022 - At Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago Cubs beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 4-2.
- 2022 - At American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Milwaukee Brewers beats Pittsburgh Pirates by score 6-1.
- 2022 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Minnesota Twins beats Boston Red Sox by score 8-3.
- 2022 - At SAP Center in San Jose, California, USA, NHL regular season game: San Jose Sharks beats Columbus Blue Jackets by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, NHL regular season game: Ottawa Senators beats Vancouver Canucks by score 4-3.
- 2022 - At Honda Center in Anaheim, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Los Angeles Kings beats Anaheim Ducks by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, NHL regular season game: Nashville Predators beats Calgary Flames by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Enterprise Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, NHL regular season game: Boston Bruins beats Saint Louis Blues by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, USA, NHL regular season game: Florida Panthers beats New York Islanders by score 3-2.
- 2022 - At Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, USA, NHL regular season game: New York Rangers beats Winnepeg Jets by score 3-0.
- 2022 - At Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, USA, NHL regular season game: Detroit Red Wings beats Tampa Bay Lightning by score 4-3.
- 1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
- 2018 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.
- 2019 - NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
- 1997 - The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
- 1775 - In Massachusetts, Paul Revere and William Dawes ride calling "the British are coming!" to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams to escape.
- 1806 - US Congress passes an act forbidding imports of certain goods from Great Britain.
- 1846 - R.E. House of New York City receives a US patent for the telegraph ticker.
- 1853 - US Vice President William King dies a month after his inauguration.
- 1861 - Union forces marching from Pottsville, Pennsylvania to Washington DC encounter hostile crowd of Southern supporters in Baltimore. Oliver Christian Bosbyshell is hit by a brick, first Union injury of the war.
- 1861 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command US armies.
- 1862 - Union ships begin assault on New Orleans, beginning with mortar shelling of forts Saint Philip and Fort Jackson.
- 1864 - Battle of Poison Springs, Arkansas (Camden Expedition).
- 1865 - Confederate General Johnson surrenders to USA General Tecumseh Sherman in North Carolina.
- 1879 - Trial begins of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians' citizen rights.
- 1890 - New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton.
- 1906 - At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long. An estimated 3,000 people die from the quake and fires. Almost 30,000 buildings are destroyed, including most of the city's homes and nearly all the central business district.
- 1924 - First crossword puzzle book published (in USA by Simon and Schuster).
- 1925 - World's fair opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1934 - First "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas).
- 1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 1942 - Stars and Stripes paper for US armed forces starts.
- 1942 - (about 1215 hours) Sixteen American B-25 bombers lead by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle bomb Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kobe, Japan. The planes were launched from the carrier Hornet 668 miles off Tokyo. 73 of the 80 crew survive as the planes land in China.
- 1950 - Canadian Avro Jetliner makes first international jet transport flight in North America, from Toronto to New York.
- 1968 - 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike.
- 1968 - London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona).
- 1968 - San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice is demolished.
- 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1976 - 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win.
- 1978 - The U.S. Senate votes 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
- 1983 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for The Color Purple.
- 1983 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
- 1983 - The Disney Channel, a cable-TV network, begins broadcasting, at 7:00 AM, with a show called Good Morning, Mickey. The service runs for 18 hours per day.
- 1986 - Robert M Gates becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1986 - Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
- 1987 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia.
- 1988 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
- 1990 - Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines.
- 1990 - US Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home.
- 1991 - US Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census.
- 1991 - US Congress ends railroad workers' one day strike.
- 1995 - Houston Post newspaper folds after 116 years.
- 1997 - The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
- 2008 - A 5.2-5.4-magnitude earthquake rocks Illinois, USA, centered near West Salem, the largest in the region in 40 years, and felt 350 miles away.
- 2018 - NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.
- 2022 - The US government announces a unilateral moratorium on antisatellite missile tests.
Other history:
- 1775 - Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "the British are coming!".
- 1906 - San Francisco Earthquake (one of the most significant earthquakes of all time) kills about 3000 people and ensuing fire destroys 80% of the city. Estimated magnitude 7.8 on Richter scale. Damage estimated at $500 million.
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