Today in History: April 18, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

In current times is Friday April the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On April the deadliest earthquake in U S history struck San Francisco followed by raging fires across the city More than people are maintained to have been killed by the quake which was estimated to have reached as high as magnitude on the Richter scale Also on this date In Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington Massachusetts warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching Related Articles portable chargers are under recall after particular consumers review fires minor burn injuries George Santos is unrepentant as he faces years in prison for fraud prosecutors say UnitedHealthcare killing suspect Luigi Mangione indicted as prosecutors push for death penalty Passengers on Southwest flight evacuated after engine fire forces plane s return Judge strikes down an Ohio law limiting kids use of social media as unconstitutional In in the first World War II attack on the Japanese mainland U S Army Air Force B- bombers conducted an air raid led by Lt Col James Doolittle over Tokyo and several other Japanese cities In physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton New Jersey at age In the Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of In people including Americans were killed at the U S Embassy in Beirut Lebanon by a suicide bomber driving a van laden with explosives In a ship carrying displaced persons from Africa sank in the Mediterranean off Libya As plenty of as people are presumed to have drowned In Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda s hip-hop stage biography of America s first treasury secretary won the Pulitzer Prize for drama In the final analysis from special counsel Robert Mueller s Russia analysis was made population It outlined Russian interference in the presidential voting process but did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian regime in its voting process interference pursuits In Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a million settlement in the voting machine company s defamation lawsuit averting a trial in a circumstance that exposed how the top-rated system promoted falsehoods regarding the presidential poll Currently s Birthdays Actor Hayley Mills is Actor James Woods is Actor Rick Moranis is Actor Eric Roberts is Journalist-author Susan Faludi is Actor Jane Leeves is Ventriloquist-comedian Jeff Dunham is Talk show host Conan O Brien is Actor Eric McCormack is Actor Maria Bello is Football Hall of Famer Willie Roaf is Actor David Tennant is Filmmaker Eli Roth is Football Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks is Filmmaker Edgar Wright is Actor Melissa Joan Hart is Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian is Former MLB All-Star Miguel Cabrera is Actor America Ferrera is Actor Vanessa Kirby is Actor Alia Shawkat is