Today is Friday, April 18, he 108th day of 2014. There are 257 days left in the year.
1853 ― First train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1902 ― Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1906 ― Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1909 ― Joan of Arc declared a saint
1924 ― First crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1948 ― International Court of Justice opens at The Hague, Netherlands
1949 ― Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1954 ― Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes P.M. of Egypt
1975 ― John Lennon releases “Stand by Me”
1987 ― An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in midair