April 18 (UPI) – On this date in history:
In 1775, American patriot Paul Revere began his famous cavalcade through the Massachusetts countryside by shouting “The British are coming!”to bring the Minutemen together.
In 1906, an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7. 8 struck San Francisco, collapsing buildings and sparking fires that destroyed much of what was left of the city. Researchers and historians have concluded that about 3,000 more people died during the earthquake and its aftermath, and about 3,000 more people died in the earthquake and its aftermath. Another 250,000 people were left homeless.
In 1912, three days after the sinking of the Titanic, its survivors arrived in New York aboard the RMS Carpathia.
In 1923, the first Yankee Stadium opened in New York City. The stadium was demolished in 2010 after being replaced a year earlier by the new Yankee Stadium.
In 1945, American journalist Ernie Pyle, a popular World War II correspondent, was killed by a Japanese gun shot on the Pacific island of Ie Shima.
In 1949, the Republic of Ireland declared its independence from Great Britain.
In 1968, McCulloch Oil Corp. paid $2. 24 million to buy London Bridge, which sank into the Thames under the weight of 20th-century traffic. The oil corporation rebuilt the bridge block by block over Lake Havasu in Arizona.
In 1980, Rhodesia became the independent African country of Zimbabwe.
In 1983, the U. S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was badly vandalized by a car bomb that killed 63 people, in addition to 17 Americans.
In 1992, an 11-year-old boy from Florida filed a lawsuit to “divorce” his biological parents and remain with his adoptive parents. The boy won the case.
In 2002, former U. S. Senator Bob Kerrey, a Nebraska Democrat, revealed that at least thirteen civilians had been killed through his U. S. Navy unit in a Vietnamese village in 1969.
In 2007, more than 125 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a Baghdad market.
In 2014, an avalanche on a famous road leading to the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas killed 16 Sherpa guides.
In 2018, Saudi Arabia’s first movie theaters opened their doors with a public screening of Black Panther.
In 2023, a $787. 5 million settlement was reached in Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading false data about the 2020 presidential election.