April 18<\/p>\n
1506 \u2013 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is laid.<\/p>\n
1521 \u2013 The trial of Martin Luther continues into its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 Paul Revere and others ride to warn the leadership of the rebellion, and militia, that British troops are moving out from Boston towards Concord.<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 The first instance of slaves in the U.S. being counted as 3\/5th of persons (at this time, for the purpose of taxation), is introduced as a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation to be part of the Articles of Confederation.<\/p>\n
1831 \u2013 The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<\/p>\n
1847 \u2013 U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott outflank General Santa Anna’s forces in battle at Sierra Gordo, near Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz,\u00a0 during the Mexican-American War, opening the way for the further invasion of Mexico.<\/p>\n
1906 \u2013 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing over 3000 people.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia<\/em> brings 705 of the survivors from the RMS Titanic<\/em> to New York City.<\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York opens for the Yankees’ first home game, hosting the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013\u00a0 U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, leading 51 Officers and 28 Airmen, flying 16 specially modified B-25B Mitchell<\/em> bombers, are launched from the U.S. Navy carrier, CV-8 USS Hornet<\/em> on a mission to attack targets on the main islands of\u00a0 Japan.<\/p>\n 1943 \u2013 Over Bougainville Island in the Solomons, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto IJN is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. P-38 Lightning<\/em> fighters, after radio messages informing Japanese bases of the schedule of his inspection tour had been intercepted and decoded.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 In retaliation for the USS Samuel B. Roberts<\/em> striking an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. launches Operation Praying Mantis<\/em> against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Due to heavy snow and ice melts up stream, several dikes are breached along the Red River of the North, causing flooding in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Southern Manitoba, resulting in over $3.5 billion in property damage.<\/p>\n 2019 – A redacted version of the Mueller Report is released to the United States Congress and the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 18 1506 \u2013 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is laid. 1521 \u2013 The trial of Martin Luther continues into its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. 1775 \u2013 Paul Revere and others ride to warn the leadership of the rebellion, and militia, that British troops … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66955"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91921,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66955\/revisions\/91921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}