^B{^#!16!18 April^N! Feast day of St Laserian, St Galdinus, St Idesbald, St Apollonius, and Saints Eleutherius and Anthia.
^B{1775^B} At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, US patriot Paul Revere rode from Charleston to Lexington, warning people as he went that British troops were on their way. ^B{1881^B} The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, UK, was opened. ^B{1906^B} An earthquake and the fire that followed it destroyed most of the city of San Francisco, and killed over 450 people. ^B{1934^B} The first launderette, called a 'washeteria', was opened in Fort Worth, Texas. ^B{1949^B} Eire proclaimed itself the Republic of Ireland. ^B{1968^B} The old London Bridge was sold to a US company, who shipped it, stone by stone, from Britain to Arizona, where it was re-erected.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara, ^B{1480^B}; Leopold Stokowski, US conductor and composer, ^B{1882^B}; Clarence Darrow, US lawyer, ^B{1857^B}; Barbara Hayle, US film actress, ^B{1922^B}; Hayley Mills, English actress, ^B{1946^B}; Malcolm Marshall, West Indian cricketer, ^B{1958^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Albert Einstein, German-born US physicist, ^B{1955^B}; George Jeffreys, the 'hanging judge', ^B{1689^B}; Erasmus Darwin, English physician and writer, ^B{1802^B}; Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, ^B{1936^B}; Will Hay, English comedian, ^B{1949^B}; Benny Hill, English comedian, ^B{1992^B}; Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor, ^B{1993^B}.
