About the day » Saturday April 18, 1959Calender converter

• Mary Lin MURPHY, Provo,Utah,Utah,ÉTATS-UNIS d'AMÉRIQUE († 1960)
• Melanie Wynne Rosema, Michigan († 1965)
• Jan Overberg, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland († 1984)
• Petronella Johanna Francisca Maria (Nelly) Thiesen, Egchel,, Limburg, Nederland († 1960)
• Eerke Kamies, Valthermond, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2017)
• OG van Beelen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1959)
• Edwin de Beurs, Amersfoort
• Berendina Hendrika van Putten, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 1959)
• Cornelis van Arkel, Zoelen († 1977)
• Antonia de Jong, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2020)

• Adriaan Dingemanse (82), Gapinge, Nederland
• Adrianus RAZENBERG (73)
• Amy Simpson (36), Vught
• Berendina Jansen (73), Ommen
• Abraham Kanes Italianer (67), Amsterdam
• Beertje Visser (76), Oldemarkt
• Arie Rietveld (79), 's-gravenhage (zuid holland)
• Agnes McLean Clark (73), Milton, Clutha, Otago, New Zealand
• Berend Lawant (63), Westerhaar, Nederland
• Adrianus Jan Vermaat (66), Schiedam

• 1957 » Ian Campbell, Australian jumper
• 1958 » Gabi Delgado-López, Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F.
• 1958 » Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach († 1999)
• 1959 » Frank Mulholland, Lord Mulholland, Scottish judge, former Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord Advocate
• 1959 » Susan Faludi, American journalist and author
• 1960 » John Chiedozie, Nigerian international footballer
• 1960 » Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Ukrainian runner
• 1961 » Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer
• 1961 » John Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1961 » Kelly Hansen, American singer-songwriter

• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
• 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)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Hendrik
6. Willem
7. Robert
8. Gerrit
9. Pieter
10. Petrus
11. Ronald
12. Paul
13. Dirk
14. David
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Yvonne
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Ingrid
12. Margaretha
13. Petronella
14. Linda
15. Karin
16. Anita

• 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 December 22, 1957 to May 19, 1959 the cabinet Beel II, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
• February 22 » Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
• August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
• October 2 » Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”

The temperature on April 18, 1959 was between 6.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.