On this day in history
April 18
JewishChristianEgyptian
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on April 18 this year.
- R. Tzvi Ashkenazi (the Chacham Tzvi)d. 1718 CE
Ashkenazi-Sephardi halachist; rabbi in Amsterdam and Lemberg
- R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebskd. 1788 CE
Hasidic leader of the aliyah to the Land of Israel; buried in Tiberias
Trace this life → - R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg (Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz)d. 1778 CE
Hasidic master and rabbi of Nikolsburg
Trace this life →
- 1902 CEJewish · born
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe who led a worldwide revival of Chabad-Lubavitch, was born in Nikolaev.
- 1521 CEChristian
At the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther declined to recant his writings unless convinced by Scripture or by clear reason.
- 1906 CEEgyptian · born
Labib Habachi, the Egyptian Egyptologist known for his fieldwork and inscriptions across Upper Egypt and Nubia, was born.