On This Day:
Saturday April 18, 2015 This is the 108th day of the year, with 257 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: brain The brain weighs about 1,500 grams and constitutes about two percent of total body weight.
Holidays Feast day of St. Laserian, St. Galdinus, St. Idesbald, St. Apollonius, and Saints Eleutherius and Anthia.
Zimbabwe: Independence Day.
Events 1521 - Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, defied the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by refusing to recant his writings.
1775 - Paul Revere and William Dawes began the famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.
1906 - A devastating 8.3 earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires, killing an estimated 3,000 people.
1921 - Junior Achievement, created to encourage business skills in young people, was incorporated.
1923 - The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City; the New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1924 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first crossword puzzle book.
1934 - The first launderette (called a "washeteria") was opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
1942 - For the first time during World War II, the mainland of Japan was bombed.
1949 - The Republic of Ireland was proclaimed and it withdrew from the British Commonwealth.
1956 - U.S. actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil ceremony.
1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to turn the Panama Canal over to the Panama government on December 31, 1999.
1980 - Southern Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1982 - The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 provided Canada with new laws and civil rights.
1983 - The U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was almost completely destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that killed 63 people, including 17 Americans.
2003 - Scott Peterson was arrested in La Jolla, California in connection with the death of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner.
2005 - Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia.
Births 1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.
1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney.
1946 - Hayley Mills, London-born actress.
1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver.
1954 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comic actor.
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian and TV personality.
Deaths 1945 - During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America's most popular war correspondent, was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on a Pacific island.
1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist.
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina from 1958 until 1962.
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer.
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji, and President of Fiji from 1993 to 2000.
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