IN HISTORY - April 18th:

1999 - Wayne Gretzky plays his last game in the NHL, as his New York Rangers lose 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1947 - Dorothy Lyman, Minneapolis Mn, (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)Actor
1947 - James Woods, Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
1953 - Rick Moranis, Toronto Ontario, Canadian actor (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
1961 - Jane Leeves, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser), born in London, England
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
1956 - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco

GOODBYE TO:

1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)

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2012 - Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, dies from a heart attack at 82
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