On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
President Trump will give Canada, Mexico and the European Union another 30-day reprieve from steel and aluminum tariffs, delaying punishing levies on key allies.
The administration, fearing Chinese technological dominance, is considering tighter restrictions on Chinese researchers in the United States as a trade fight escalates.
The questions provide the most detailed look yet at the special counsel investigation and show an effort to learn about the president’s thinking.
John Legere was once a conventional numbers guy, but now his brash approach has resulted in a proposed mega-merger for T-Mobile and Sprint.
A pair of two-part productions, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the revival of “Angels in America,” were also showered with affection.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 25, 2018, covering May 1, 2018.
Jason Aldean
Cardi B
Breaking Benjamin
Soundtrack
John Prine
2018Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) resumes the Deir ez-Zor campaign in order to clear the remnants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq–Syria border.[†]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2018, the world population was approximately 7,729,902,781 people[†]