On This Day for April 18 - The midnight ride of Paul Revere, Albert Einstein is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-18 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-18 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 18

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Albert Einstein

FEATURED EVENT

1775

The midnight ride of Paul Revere

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2012: American television personality and businessman Dick Clark, who was the longtime host of American Bandstand (1957–87), died in California.

1999: Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky, considered one of the game's greatest players, skated in his last NHL game. [ Find out if Wayne Gretzky tops our list of the 10 greatest hockey players of all time.]

1980: Zimbabwe achieved its independence from the United Kingdom .

Rainier III, prince de Monaco, and Grace, princesse de Monaco

1956: Abandoning her Hollywood career, American actress Grace Kelly wed Rainier III, prince de Monaco , in a civil ceremony; an opulent religious ceremony took place the following day.

1945: During the U.S. invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa in World War II, American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed on nearby Ie Island by Japanese gunfire.

1906: San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake caused by slippage along the San Andreas Fault. [ See the damage caused by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1963

Conan O'Brien
American talk-show host

1944

Robert Hanssen
American law enforcement agent and spy

1480

Lucrezia Borgia
Italian noble

1590

Ahmed I
Ottoman sultan

1772

David Ricardo
British economist