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April 18 | |
| 1857 | Birth date of Clarence Darrow, lawyer. (died 3/13/38) |
| 1882 | Birth date of Leopold Anthony Stokowski, conductor. (died 9/13/77) |
| 1942 | U.S. bombers raid Tokyo. |
| 1943 | While on an inspection tour in the Northern Solomon Islands, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is shot down by American P-38 fighters. |
| 1945 | Columnist and war correspondent Ernie Pyle killed by Japanese machine gun fire. |