PRAYER CORRECTION TODAY IN HISTORY

Lord, we come to you with a heavy heart and thank you for your forgiveness, as the words “thank you” will never be enough. Amen.

“Where is money going to fight homelessness? No one knows,” April 17, Opinions, 4B:

The column mischaracterized the source of the estimated $1 billion in annual spending in Arizona on homelessness. The source is a mixture of tax dollars and private money.

Today is Thursday, April 18, the 109th day of 2024. There are 257 days left in the year. On this date in:

1775: As British advancement began against Concord and Lexington in Massachusetts, Paul Revere, William Dawes and other riders raised the alarm bells across the countryside, rousing the Minutemen to meet the British forces.

1783: The first usage of the ThreeFifths Compromise in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. The notion was to count three-fifths of a state’s slave population toward that state’s total population for the purpose of determining seats in the House of Representatives and taxes. This concept was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.

1906: A massive earthquake with a magnitude of a least 7.7 rocked San Francisco, devastating most of the city. It ignited three days of raging fires and destroyed 500 city blocks. An estimated 3,000 people died, more than half the population were left homeless and 28,000 buildings were destroyed. It remains the deadliest earthquake in U.S. history and one of the worst natural disasters in America.