2008 Woodie Awards
This day in history
Issue date: 4/18/08 Section: News
1775 Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
1906 A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.
1934 The first laundromat (called a "washateria") opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
1942 An air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1978 The Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.
1980 The independent nation of Zimbabwe, formerly Zimbabwe Rhodesia, came into being.
1983 Sixty-three people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
2003 Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. (Peterson was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2007 The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law in 2003.
-compiled by The Associated Press
1906 A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000.
1934 The first laundromat (called a "washateria") opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
1942 An air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1978 The Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.
1980 The independent nation of Zimbabwe, formerly Zimbabwe Rhodesia, came into being.
1983 Sixty-three people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
2003 Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. (Peterson was later convicted and sentenced to death.)
2007 The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law in 2003.
-compiled by The Associated Press
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