These historical events took place on April 18th.
1861: Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies in the United States Civil War.
1862: Battle of Fort Jackson begins in Fort St Philip and New Orlean’s, Louisiana.
1865: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to General William T. Sherman in North Carolina.
1906: San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city.
1916: United States Secretary of State Warns Germany that the United States of America may break diplomatic relations unless torpedo attacks on unarmed ships stop.
1936: Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1942: “Stars & Stripes” paper for United States armed forces starts.
1943: Operation Vengeance: United States Army Air Force P-38G fighter aircraft from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal ambush and shoot down the transport bomber aircraft of Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy and mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack.
1958: A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1963: Dr James Campbell out of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania performed the first human nerve transplant.
1972: “Lost in the Stars” based on the novel “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 39 performances.
1973: United States Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.