Today is Sunday, April 18, the 108th day of 2010. There are 257 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
ON THIS DATE
In 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.
In 1945, famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.
In 1946, the League of Nations went out of business.
In 1949, the Republic of Ireland was proclaimed.
In 2000, Robert L. Yates Jr. was arrested in Spokane and charged with murdering a teenage prostitute. (Yates later confessed to killing 13 people, and was sentenced to 408 years in prison; he was subsequently convicted of two other killings and sentenced to death.)
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actress Barbara Hale is 89. Actor Clive Revill is 80. Actor James Drury is 76. Actor Robert Hooks is 73. Actress Hayley Mills is 64. Actor James Woods is 63. Actress-director Dorothy Lyman is 63. Actress Cindy Pickett is 63. Country musician Walt Richmond (The Tractors) is 63. Country musician Jim Scholten (Sawyer Brown) is 58.
Actor Rick Moranis is 57. Actress Melody Thomas Scott is 54. Actor Eric Roberts is 54. Actor John James is 54. Rock musician Les Pattinson (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 52. Author-journalist Susan Faludi is 51. Actress Jane Leeves is 49.
Talk show host Conan O’Brien is 47. Bluegrass singer-musician Terry Eldredge is 47. Actor Eric McCormack is 47. Actress Maria Bello is 43. Actress Mary Birdsong is 42. Rock musician Greg Eklund (The Oolahs) is 40. Actor David Tennant is 39. Country musician Marvin Evatt is 36.
Rock musician Mark Tremonti is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Trina (Trina and Tamara) is 36. Actress Melissa Joan Hart is 34. Actor Sean Maguire is 34. Actress America Ferrera is 26. Actress Alia Shawkat is 21. Actor Moises Arias (“Hannah Montana”) is 16.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Love has the quality of informing almost everything — even one’s work.” — Sylvia Ashton-Warner, New Zealander author and educator (1908-1984).
Associated Press
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