历史上的今天-Today in History 2012-04-18
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April 18th, 1906A devastating1 earthquake strikes San Francisco, flattening2 buildings and setting off raging fires. Estimates of the final death toll3 range between three-thousand and six-thousand in one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit an American city.
1775, In Massachusetts, several post riders set out to warn
colonists4 of the British attack that starts the American Revolution.
One
patriotic5 myth growing out of that movement begins with a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem called “Paul Reverie’s Ride.”
1983, A suicide
bomber6 kills 63 people including 17 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
1955,
Physicist7 Albert Einstein, considered the greatest scientist of the 20th Century, dies in Princeton, New
Jersey8. He was 76.
And 1999, Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky plays his last NHL game at New York's Madison Square Garden. Gretzky, nicknamed “The Great One” for setting so many records, says it's time to move on.
“It's hard. This is a great game, but it's a hard game. I’m ready.”
Today in History, April 18th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
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