About the day » Thursday April 18, 1968Calender converter

• Sandra Lee Viet, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic, Iowa City († 2010)
• Hubertus Johannes Maria Scholte, Schiedam († 1968)
• Jeroen van Noije († 1992)
• Jeanette van Gool († 1991)
• Dirk Jozef De Ryck, Lier, België
• Debra Jane Gimse, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, V.S
• Roel Savert
• Jeffrey L. Hoyt, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, V.S
• Jeanette van Gool († 1991)
• Alexandra Maria Saedt († 1997)

• Celina Genyn (72), Willebroek, 2830, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Berendje van de Burg (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Haarbosch (70), Breda, Nederland
• Christina Elisabeth Cornelia Vermeltfoort (87), Sint Oedenrode
• Achilles Ludovicus Vekemans (60), Leuven, 3000 België
• Aalbert Kamps (68), Zaandam
• Aafke Dam (74), Cleveland
• Berendtje van de Burg (72), Haarlem
• Catharina van der Heijden (77), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Bakers (74), Eindhoven

• 1966 » Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1967 » Maria Bello, American actress and writer
• 1969 » Keith DeCandido, American author
• 1969 » Robert Změlík, Czech decathlete
• 1969 » Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1970 » François Leroux, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
• 1970 » Greg Eklund, American drummer and guitarist
• 1970 » Rico Brogna, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 » Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon
• 1970 » Tatiana Stefanidou, Greek journalist and talk show host

• 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)
• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Robert
4. Peter
5. Johan
6. Hendrik
7. Richard
8. Michael
9. Marcel
10. Willem
11. Cornelis
12. Mark
13. John
14. Patrick
15. Eric
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Ingrid
5. Sandra
6. Petra
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Elisabeth
10. Yvonne
11. Jolanda
12. Karin
13. Jacqueline
14. Cornelia
15. Linda
16. Sylvia

• 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
• January 22 » Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• March 12 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
• March 17 » As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
• June 5 » Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
• July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
• December 26 » The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.

The temperature on April 18, 1968 was between 9.7 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.