Monday, April 18, 2022

History for April 18

History for April 18 - On-This-Day.com
Clarence Darrow 1857 - Attorney, famous for his part in the Scopes 'monkey trial'
  • 1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that the Regulars were coming out. 
  • 1847 - U.S. troops defeated almost 17,000 Mexican soldiers commanded by Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo. (Mexican-American War)
  • 1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.
  • 1938 - Superman made his debut when he appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. (Cover date June 1938)
  • 1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
  • 1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
  • 1989 - Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.

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