1775 - Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1906 - a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. About 700 people died.
1942 - an air squadron from the USS "Hornet" led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1945 - famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, 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, New Jersey.
1978 - the US Senate voted 68-to-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31st, 1999.
1980 - Zimbabwe Rhodesia became the independent nation of Zimbabwe.
1983 - 62 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
1994 - former President Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, New Jersey; he died four days later at a New York hospital.
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