A bit of April 18th history…
1506 - Cornerstone of St Peter’s Basilica is laid in the Vatican
1783 - Fighting ceases in the American Revolutionary War - 8 years to the day that it began
1861 - Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1968 - London Bridge sold to US oil company and erected in Arizona (pictured)
1985 - Wham becomes 1st western pop act to release an album in China
2020 - Canada’s worst modern mass shooting as a gunman kills 18 people across Nova Scotia
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