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On This Day:
Saturday April 18, 2009
This is the 108th day of the year, with 257 days remaining in 2009.
Fact of the Day: Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual foot race. It starts in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts and goes eight cities and towns to the Back Bay
section of Boston, a distance of 26 miles, 385 yards. It was first held in 1897
and is run on the third Monday in April - the date picked, basically, to honor
the 1775 ride of Paul Revere. In 1972, it became the first marathon race to
officially admit women runners.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Laserian, St. Galdinus, St. Idesbald, St. Apollonius,
and Saints Eleutherius and Anthia.
Zimbabwe: Independence Day.
Events
1521 - Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, defied the
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V by refusing to recant his writings.
1775 - Paul Revere and William Dawes began the famous ride from
Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning American colonists that the
British were coming.
1846 - The telegraph ticker was patented by R.E. House of New York City.
1906 - A devastating 8.3 earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by
raging fires, killing an estimated 3,000 people.
1921 - Junior Achievement, created to encourage business skills in young
people, was incorporated.
1923 - The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City; the
New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1924 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first crossword puzzle book.
1934 - The first launderette (called a "washeteria") was opened, in Fort
Worth, Texas.
1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin.
1942 - For the first time during World War II, the mainland of Japan was
bombed.
1949 - The Republic of Ireland was proclaimed and it withdrew from the
British Commonwealth.
1956 - U.S. actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a
civil ceremony.
1978 - The U.S. Senate voted to turn the Panama Canal over to the Panama
government on December 31, 1999.
1980 - Southern Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1982 - The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 provided Canada with new
laws and civil rights.
1983 - The U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was almost completely
destroyed by a car-bomb explosion that killed 63 people, including 17
Americans.
2003 - Scott Peterson was arrested in La Jolla, California in connection
with the death of his wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner.
2005 - Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia.
Births
1480 - Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara.
1857 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney.
1946 - Hayley Mills, London-born actress.
1949 - Geoff Bodine, American race car driver.
1954 - Rick Moranis, Canadian comic actor.
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian and TV personality.
Deaths
1945 - During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America's most popular
war correspondent, was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on a Pacific island.
1955 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist.
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina from 1958 until 1962.
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer.
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji, and
President of Fiji from 1993 to 2000.
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