TODAY IN HISTORY

MONDAY APR 18, 2022

1775

Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.

1865

Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.

1906

A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.

1923

The first game was played at the original Yankee Stadium in New York; the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.

1954

Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power as he became prime minister of Egypt.

1955

Physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 76.

1966

Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’S first Black coach.

1978

The Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.

1983

63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.

2002

Police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, nearly a year earlier.

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.

2016

“Hamilton,” Lin-manuel Miranda’s hip-hop stage biography of America’s first treasury secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.