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Today in History – April 18
Today is Tuesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2023. There are 257 days left in the year.
Notable Events in History
On this day in history:
- 1775: Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.
- 1865: Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.
- 1906: A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.
- 1923: The first game was played at the original Yankee Stadium in New York; the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
- 1954: Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power as he became prime minister of Egypt.
- 1955: Physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 76.
- 1966: Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first Black coach.
- 1978: The Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.
- 1983: 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
- 2002: Police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, nearly a year earlier (Blake was acquitted at his criminal trial but found liable in a civil trial).
- 2015: A ship believed to be carrying more than 800 migrants from Africa sank in the Mediterranean off Libya; only about 30 people were rescued.
- 2016: “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop stage biography of America’s first treasury secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
- 2019: The final report from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was made public; it outlined Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election but did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.
Birthdays
Notable individuals born on this day include:
- Clive Revill (93)
- Hayley Mills (77)
- James Woods (76)
- Rick Moranis (70)
- Eric Roberts (67)
- Jeff Dunham (61)
- Conan O’Brien (60)
- Maria Bello (56)
- Melissa Joan Hart (47)
- Moises Arias (29)
