Category: This Day In History April 18

Categories: This Day In History April

Historic Events:
1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "regulars are coming!"

1853 - 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)

1881 - Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals Image:TDIH Images.gif

2013 - 27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq; Two earth-like planets are discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62

Famous Birthdays:
1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)

1590 - Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17); constructed the Blue Mosque

1797 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France

1857 - Clarence Seward Darrow - American attorney often associated with unpopular causes

1953 - Rick Moranis, Toronto, (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)

1963 - Conan Chris O'Brien, Brookline Massaschusetts, TV host (Late Night)

Famous Deaths:

• 1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
• 1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
• 2012 - Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, dies from a heart attack at 82

五十六 (高野) 山本 04 Apr 1884 日本新潟県長岡市 - 18 Apr 1943

Clarence Darrow 18 Apr 1857 Kinsman, Ohio - 13 Mar 1938

Albert Einstein 14 Mar 1879 Ulm, Königreich Württemberg, Deutsches Reich - 18 Apr 1955

Paul Revere 01 Jan 1735 Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England - 10 May 1818

Katherine Schmidt 06 Feb 1899 Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States - 18 Apr 1978

William Stone 18 Apr 1846 Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States - 01 Mar 1920

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