April 18
1775 - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists to the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution.
1831 - The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was officially opened.
1865 - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.
1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed over 4 sq. miles of the city and killed more than 3,000.
1910 - Suffragists showed up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures demanding that women be given the right to vote.
1942 - An air squadron led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1949 - The Irish Republic was proclaimed.
1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power as he became prime minister of Egypt.
1955 - Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1956 - American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1968 - London Bridge was sold to an American where it was then shipped and rebuilt in Arizona.
1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to hand over control of the Panama Canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.
1983 - A suicide bomber killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
2002 - Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, returned after 29 years in exile.
2004 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
2007 - The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a federal ban on a medical procedure that opponents calls partial-birth abortion.
2011 - Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term outlook for the U.S. government's fiscal health from "stable" to "negative."
2012 - American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve host Dick Clark died from heart failure at age 82.
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.
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. (Mueller offered no conclusion on the question of whether the president obstructed justice.)
2020 - Police in Hong Kong arrested at least 14 veteran pro-democracy lawmakers, activists and a media tycoon on charges of joining unlawful protests in 2019.
Birthdays
27 - Moises Arias (actor)
29 - Chloe Bennett (actress)
31 - Britt Robertson (actress)
32 - Alia Shawkat (actress)
33 - Vanessa Kirby (actress)
34 - Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (actress/model)
34 - Ellen Woglom (actress)
34 - Samantha Jade (singer)
36 - Tom Hughes (actor)
37 - America Ferrera (actress)
38 - Miguel Cabrera (baseball player)
42 - Kourtney Kardashian (reality star)
44 - Bryce Johnson (actor)
45 - Kevin Rankin (actor)
45 - Sean Maguire (actor)
45 - Melissa Joan Hart (actress)
50 - David Tennant (actor)
50 - Fredro Starr (actor)
50 - Tamara Braun (actress)
51 - Lisa Locicero (actress)
53 - David Hewlett (actor)
53 - Mary Birdsong (actress)
54 - Maria Bello (actress)
58 - Eric McCormack (actor)
58 - Conan O'Brien (talk show host)
59 - Jeff Dunham (comedian)
60 - Jane Leeves (actress)
65 - John James (actor)
65 - Eric Roberts (actor)
65 - Melody Thomas Scott (actress)
68 - Rick Moranis (actor)
74 - Cindy Pickett (actress)
74 - James Woods (actor)
75 - Hayley Mills (actress)
84 - Robert Hooks (actor)
91 - Clive Revill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 18
1923 - The first game was played at Yankee Stadium (the "House that Ruth built"). The Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1942 - The Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1959 - The Montreal Canadiens win a fourth straight Stanley Cup after defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1962 - Bill Russell (Boston Celtics) scored 30 points and got 40 rebounds in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers. It was the fourth straight NBA title for the Celtics.
1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out the side on 9 pitches, for league leading third time in his career
1966 - Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first Black coach.
1982 - The Atlanta Braves set a National League record when they won their eleventh straight game from the start of the season.
1985 - Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players.
1987 - Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hit his 500th career home run.
1991 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz breaks his own NBA single-season assists record with 1,136.
1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana retired from professional football.
1996 - Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed in a field near Raymond, Nebraska; he was 22 years old.
1998 - The Indianapolis Colts select Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1998 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1998 NFL Draft: DE - Grant Wistrom (1st round, 6th pick, St. Louis Rams); DT - Jason Peter (1st round, 14th pick, Carolina Panthers); QB - Scott Frost (3rd round, New York Jets); RB - Ahman Green (3rd round, Seattle Seahawks); C - Aaron Taylor (7th round, Indianapolis Colts); and CB - Eric Warfield (7th round, Kansas City Chiefs).
1999 - Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer, played his last professional game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
2005 - It was announced that the NFL's "Monday Night Football" would leave ABC in 2006 for a new home on ESPN. MNF had been on ABC since it began in 1970.
2008 - NBA owners approve the move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.
2016 - Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2:03:02, the fastest anyone had ever run the 26.2 mile distance; fellow Kenyan Caroline Kilel won the women’s race in 2:22:36.
1775 - Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists to the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution.
1831 - The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was officially opened.
1865 - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.
1906 - The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed over 4 sq. miles of the city and killed more than 3,000.
1910 - Suffragists showed up at the U.S. Capitol with half a million signatures demanding that women be given the right to vote.
1942 - An air squadron led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1949 - The Irish Republic was proclaimed.
1954 - Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power as he became prime minister of Egypt.
1955 - Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey.
1956 - American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1968 - London Bridge was sold to an American where it was then shipped and rebuilt in Arizona.
1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to hand over control of the Panama Canal to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999.
1983 - A suicide bomber killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
2002 - Afghanistan's former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, returned after 29 years in exile.
2004 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.
2007 - The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld a federal ban on a medical procedure that opponents calls partial-birth abortion.
2011 - Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term outlook for the U.S. government's fiscal health from "stable" to "negative."
2012 - American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve host Dick Clark died from heart failure at age 82.
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.
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. (Mueller offered no conclusion on the question of whether the president obstructed justice.)
2020 - Police in Hong Kong arrested at least 14 veteran pro-democracy lawmakers, activists and a media tycoon on charges of joining unlawful protests in 2019.
Birthdays
27 - Moises Arias (actor)
29 - Chloe Bennett (actress)
31 - Britt Robertson (actress)
32 - Alia Shawkat (actress)
33 - Vanessa Kirby (actress)
34 - Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (actress/model)
34 - Ellen Woglom (actress)
34 - Samantha Jade (singer)
36 - Tom Hughes (actor)
37 - America Ferrera (actress)
38 - Miguel Cabrera (baseball player)
42 - Kourtney Kardashian (reality star)
44 - Bryce Johnson (actor)
45 - Kevin Rankin (actor)
45 - Sean Maguire (actor)
45 - Melissa Joan Hart (actress)
50 - David Tennant (actor)
50 - Fredro Starr (actor)
50 - Tamara Braun (actress)
51 - Lisa Locicero (actress)
53 - David Hewlett (actor)
53 - Mary Birdsong (actress)
54 - Maria Bello (actress)
58 - Eric McCormack (actor)
58 - Conan O'Brien (talk show host)
59 - Jeff Dunham (comedian)
60 - Jane Leeves (actress)
65 - John James (actor)
65 - Eric Roberts (actor)
65 - Melody Thomas Scott (actress)
68 - Rick Moranis (actor)
74 - Cindy Pickett (actress)
74 - James Woods (actor)
75 - Hayley Mills (actress)
84 - Robert Hooks (actor)
91 - Clive Revill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 18
1923 - The first game was played at Yankee Stadium (the "House that Ruth built"). The Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1942 - The Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1959 - The Montreal Canadiens win a fourth straight Stanley Cup after defeating the Toronto Maple Leafs.
1962 - Bill Russell (Boston Celtics) scored 30 points and got 40 rebounds in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers. It was the fourth straight NBA title for the Celtics.
1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out the side on 9 pitches, for league leading third time in his career
1966 - Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first Black coach.
1982 - The Atlanta Braves set a National League record when they won their eleventh straight game from the start of the season.
1985 - Tulane University abolished its 72-year-old basketball program. The reason was charges of fixed games, drug abuse, and payments to players.
1987 - Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hit his 500th career home run.
1991 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz breaks his own NBA single-season assists record with 1,136.
1995 - Quarterback Joe Montana retired from professional football.
1996 - Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed in a field near Raymond, Nebraska; he was 22 years old.
1998 - The Indianapolis Colts select Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1998 - The following Huskers were selected in the 1998 NFL Draft: DE - Grant Wistrom (1st round, 6th pick, St. Louis Rams); DT - Jason Peter (1st round, 14th pick, Carolina Panthers); QB - Scott Frost (3rd round, New York Jets); RB - Ahman Green (3rd round, Seattle Seahawks); C - Aaron Taylor (7th round, Indianapolis Colts); and CB - Eric Warfield (7th round, Kansas City Chiefs).
1999 - Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer, played his last professional game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
2005 - It was announced that the NFL's "Monday Night Football" would leave ABC in 2006 for a new home on ESPN. MNF had been on ABC since it began in 1970.
2008 - NBA owners approve the move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City.
2016 - Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2:03:02, the fastest anyone had ever run the 26.2 mile distance; fellow Kenyan Caroline Kilel won the women’s race in 2:22:36.