This Day In History

April 18

St. Apollonius

1637  First draft in America.
1775  The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere takes place from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusettes.
1846  The telegraph ticker patented by R.E. House of New York City
1877  Charles Cros wrote a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. While in France he is regarded as the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison gets the credit in the US.
1906  The Great San Francisco Earthquake kills thousands
1923  Yankee Stadium opens in the Bronx, New York and 75 years later in 1998 it is closed for opening day due to falling structures
1934  The first laundromat (called a washateria) opens in Fort Worth, Texas.
1945  War correspondent Ernie Pyle killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific Island of Ieshima off Okinawa.
1955  Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, New Jersey.
1998  Linda McCartney dies of cancer in Arizona.  Wife of musician Paul, animal rights activist and vegetarian.

1956

• Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

• Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle

• Moritat (A Theme from "The Three Penny Opera") - Dick Hyman

• Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1960

• The Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith

• Puppy Love - Paul Anka

• Sweet Nothin's - Brenda Lee

• Sink the Bismarck - Johnny Horton

1979

• What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers

• I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

• Music Box Dancer - Frank Mills

• If Loving You is Wrong I Don't Want to be Right - Barbara Mandrell

1988

• Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean

• Devil Inside - INXS

• Where Do Broken Hearts Go - Whitney Houston

• I Wanna Dance with You - Eddie Rabbitt

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