About the day » Wednesday April 18, 1979Calender converter

• Y02 X02, Bruxelles, 1000, Brabant, Belgique
• Ludwig Philipp Louis Philippe, Edinburgh († 1980)
• Lodewijk Philips Albert Frans Maria de Bourbon-Orléans, Edinburgh († 1980)
• loes andrea sophia (loes) van horen, helden-panningen
• Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, Édimbourg, Écosse, Grande-Bretagne († 1980)

• Abraham van der Walle (74), //
• Anna Timmermans (70), Vaals, Limburg, Nederland
• Bouwina Dost (24), Zwartemeer Emmen
• Aalderikus Mattheus Baalman (78), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• angèle BERTIAUX (83), Mons (Belgium)
• Bertus Marinus Kroger (72), Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands
• Alaide Werneck Garcez (73), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonius van den Hurk (84), Heeswijk
• Auguste Johanne MARIE FILTER (77)
• Bertha Vos (79), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1977 » Cindy Taylor, Paraguayan model and actress
• 1977 » Dan LaCouture, American ice hockey player
• 1979 » Anthony Davidson, English racing driver
• 1979 » Ethan Cohn, American actor
• 1979 » Kourtney Kardashian, American model and businesswoman
• 1979 » Matt Cooper, Australian rugby league player
• 1979 » Michael Bradley, American basketball player and coach
• 1980 » Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist († 2008)
• 1980 » Rabiu Afolabi, Nigerian footballer and manager
• 1981 » Brian Buscher, American baseball player

• 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Erik
14. Paul
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Nathalie

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
• December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
• December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The temperature on April 18, 1979 was between 1.4 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.