Good Friday
Birth anniversary of American attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938).
Happy Birthday! Barbara Hale, Hayley Mills, Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, David Tennant, James Woods
1775 - American revolutionaries Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott rode though the towns of Massachusetts giving the warning that "the Regulars are coming out." Later, the phrase "the British are coming" was attributed to Revere.
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee turned down an offer to command the Union armies during the U.S. Civil War.
1906 - San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The original death toll was cited at about 700. Later information indicated that the death toll may have been 3 to 4 times the original estimate.
1934 - The first Laundromat opened in Fort Worth, TX.
1937 - Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1938 - Superman, the world's first super hero, appeared in the first issue of Action Comics. The cover date was June 1938.
1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1942 - The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France.
1943 - Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
1955 - Albert Einstein died.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco were married. The religious ceremony took place April 19.
1978 - The U.S. Senate approved the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999.
1980 - Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1983 - The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a suicide car-bomber. 63 people were killed including 17 Americans.
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