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On This Day: April 18

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On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off
raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.

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On April 18, 1857, Clarence Darrow, the defense attorney in many dramatic criminal trials, was born. Following his death on March 13, 1938, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1775	Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1923	The first baseball game was played at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, with New York beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1942	An air squadron led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1946	The League of Nations went out of business.
1949	The Irish Republic was proclaimed.
1955	Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76.
1956	Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1978	The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control in 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.
1999	Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer, played his last professional game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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.

Current Birthdays

Comedian-talk show host Conan O'Brien turns 48 years old today.

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera turns 28 years old today.

AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

1934	James Drury, Actor ("The Virginian"), turns 77
1946	Hayley Mills, Actress, turns 65
1947	James Woods, Actor, turns 64
1953	Rick Moranis, Actor, turns 58
1956	Eric Roberts, Actor, turns 55
1956	Melody Thomas Scott, Actress ("The Young and the Restless"), turns 55
1961	Jane Leeves, Actress ("Frasier"), turns 50
1963	Eric McCormack, Actor ("Will and Grace"), turns 48
1967	Maria Bello, Actress, turns 44
1976	Melissa Joan Hart, Actress ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch"), turns 35
1984	America Ferrera, Actress ("Ugly Betty'), turns 27

Historic Birthdays
Clarence Darrow
4/18/1857 - 3/13/1938 American defense lawyer; represented Eugene V. Debs and John T. Scopes (Go to obit.)
39	Lucrezia Borgia 4/18/1480 - 6/24/1519 Italian Renaissance noblewoman of the Borgia family
79	Gaetano Vestris 4/18/1729 - 9/23/1808 French ballet dancer
61	George Henry Lewes 4/18/1817 - 11/28/1878 English philosopher, critic, actor, scientist and editor
55	Carlos Cespedes 4/18/1819 - 3/22/1874 Cuban revolutionary; early fighter for independence from Spain
104	Dhondo Keshav Karve 4/18/1858 - 11/9/1962 Indian social reformer; supported the education of women
80	Max Weber 4/18/1881 - 10/4/1961 Russian-born American painter, printmaker and sculptor
95	Leopold Stokowski 4/18/1882 - 9/13/1977 English-born American conductor
93	George H. Hitchings 4/18/1905 - 2/27/1998 American Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1988)
79	Little Brother Montgomery 4/18/1906 - 9/6/1985 American jazz pianist and vocalist