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Death of English poet and antiquary John Leland. Leland made a number of journeys around England and Wales towards the end of Henry VIII<\/a>\u2018s reign, recording his observations. His notebooks became known as \u2018The Itinerary\u2019.<\/p>\n Death of Sir Henry Cole, organiser of the 1851 Great Exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Listeners who tuned in to hear BBC Radio\u2019s Good Friday evening news broadcast were informed that \u201cthere is no news\u201d.<\/p>\n Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor<\/a>, was killed when the plane in which he was flying was ambushed and shot down by american fighters near the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force. Ireland ceases to be a member of the commonwealth and King George VI<\/a> ceases to act as Irish head of state in international relations.<\/p>\n When a suicide bomber drives a van packed with explosives into the compound of the US embassy in Beirut, 63 people are killed and more than 120 injured.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Elinor Evans Published: Monday, 18 April 2022 at 12:00 am 18 April 1161 Death of Theobald of Bec, Archishop of Canterbury. Bec had held office during the wars between Stephen and Matilda and the early years of the reign of Henry II. He was succeeded by his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, one Thomas Becket. 18 April 1552 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":13446,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/18-april-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Monday, 18 April 2022 at 12:00 am 18 April 1161 Death of Theobald of Bec, Archishop of Canterbury. Bec had held office during the wars between Stephen and Matilda and the early years of the reign of Henry II. He was succeeded by his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, one Thomas Becket. 18 April 1552…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/13445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}18 April 1882<\/h3>\n
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