##April 18…
1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake
American Revolution
1775 Revere and Dawes warn of British attack
Automotive
2009 Fifty-year-old Mark Martin wins NASCAR race
Civil War
1864 Confederates inflict pain at Battle of Poison Spring
Cold War
1989 Chinese students protest against government
Crime
1974 The Red Brigade terrorizes Italy
Disaster
1880 Missouri is ravaged by tornadoes
2014 Mt. Everest sees its single deadliest day
General Interest
1521 Luther defiant at Diet of Worms
1775 Revere and Dawes ride
1942 Doolittle leads air raid on Tokyo
1945 Journalist Ernie Pyle killed
1983 Suicide bomber destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut
Hollywood
1956 Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier marry
2012 Dick Clark, host of “American Bandstand” and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” dies
Literary
1958 Federal court decides to release Ezra Pound
Music
1906 Enrico Caruso survives the San Francisco earthquake
Old West
1906 San Francisco earthquake
Presidential
1961 JFK denies U.S. military intervention in Cuba
Sports
1983 Benoit wins Boston Marathon
Vietnam War
1969 Nixon says prospects for peace in Vietnam are better
World War I
1915 Germans shoot down French pilot Roland Garros
World War II
1945 Ernie Pyle killed at Okinawa