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Originally Posted by Tala
Okay, where the hell is CDSmith??
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Late, as usual.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1775 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died.
1923 The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
1942 An air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1945 American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.
1946 The League of Nations went out of business.
1949 The Irish Republic was proclaimed.
1955 Physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, N.J., at age 76.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1978 The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999.
1983 A suicide bomber killed 62 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1989 Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy tried to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.
1994 Former President Richard Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, N.J.; he died four days later.
1999 Wayne Gretzky played his last National Hockey League game, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
2002 Four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were killed when they were mistakenly bombed by an American F-16.
2002 Police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted of murder.)
2002 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl died at age 87.
2003 Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. (Peterson was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2004 Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered a withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq.