2008 Woodie Awards
On this day...April 18th
Issue date: 4/18/08 Section: News
1506 - The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
1775 - American Revolution: British advancement by sea begin; riders warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
1880 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 - Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1909 - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1923 - Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.
1943 - World War II: "Operation Peacock;" Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over the Solomon Islands.
1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
2007 - The US Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
Births:
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English
dramatist
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian
composer
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball
player
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, singer and
actress
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown,
American musician
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial
killer
1961 - Steve Lombardi, American
wrestler
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American
comedian
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American
actress
1986 - Maurice Edu, American soccer
player
1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
Deaths:
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English
physician and botanist
1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize
laureate
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American
football player & professional wrestler
1775 - American Revolution: British advancement by sea begin; riders warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
1880 - An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1881 - Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1909 - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1923 - Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.
1943 - World War II: "Operation Peacock;" Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over the Solomon Islands.
1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1988 - U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
2007 - The US Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
Births:
1580 - Thomas Middleton, English
dramatist
1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian
composer
1888 - Duffy Lewis, American baseball
player
1919 - Virginia O'Brien, singer and
actress
1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown,
American musician
1947 - Herbert Mullin, American serial
killer
1961 - Steve Lombardi, American
wrestler
1963 - Conan O'Brien, American
comedian
1969 - Princess Sayako of Japan
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American
actress
1986 - Maurice Edu, American soccer
player
1989 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
Deaths:
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English
physician and botanist
1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize
laureate
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American
football player & professional wrestler
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