This Day In History
- 1775 Paul Revere began his ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
- 1906 The Great San Francisco Earthquake occurred at 5:13 a.m. The tremendous earthquake was responsible for some 3,000 deaths and catastrophic damage. There were many fires that followed the quake and they took days -- even weeks -- to contain. Survivors of the earthquake gathered annually for memorial services beginning at the moment the predawn temblor struck and became history.
- 1923 The first game was played at Yankee Stadium in New York City, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
- 1934 The first Laundromat opened -- in Fort Worth, TX. For the first time, folks could rent washing machines for laundering clothes. Eventually progress made it possible to rent dryers, too!
- 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.
- 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 pilot.
- 2002 Police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, nearly a year earlier.
- 2002 Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl died in Italy 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.
- 1921 Barbara Hale (actress: Perry Mason, The Oklahoman, The Defense Never Rests, Airport)
- 1946 Hayley Mills (actress: The Parent Trap, The Moon Spinners, Pollyanna; singer: Let?s Get Together)
- 1963 Conan O'Brien (TV talk show host: Late Night with Conan O?Brien; Emmy Award-winning writer: Saturday Night Live [1989]; The Simpsons; producer: Lockwell; comedian: Not Necessarily the News)
- 1976 Melissa Joan Hart (actress: Clarissa Explains It All, Twisted Desire, Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
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