Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2007. There are 257 days left in the year. On this date in 1906, a devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of

Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 108th day of 2007. There are 257 days left in the year. On this date in 1906, a devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll stand at more than 3,600.
In 1775, several post riders set out to warn colonists of the British attack that starts the American Revolution. One patriotic myth that grows out of that movement begins with a poem Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called "Paul Revere's Ride." In 1857, American lawyer Clarence Darrow is born near Kinsman, Ohio. In 1907, San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel opens, a year to the day after the earthquake. In 1934, the first laundromat (called a "washateria") opens, in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1942, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raids Tokyo and other Japanese cities. In 1945, famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, is killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. In 1946, the League of Nations goes out of business. In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, N.J., at age 76. In 1983, 63 people, including 17 Americans, are killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
April 18, 1982: More than half the students taking Youngstown State University's mandatory English Placement Test score below acceptable college levels and have to take remedial work.
Girard city officials say they face a large deficit by the end of the year and they are wondering when the city's financial fortunes will turn around.
Youngstown Mayor George Vukovich is soliciting support of mayors in the Mahoning Valley for a campaign to defeat a proposal that would give townships a share of income taxes collected by municipalities.
April 18, 1967: Kindergarten, sports programs, driver education and drama programs will be cut in Youngstown schools if a 7.5-mill levy on the May 2 ballot is defeated.
The United Veterans Council, representing 10,000 veterans and 30 different organizations in Mahoning County, goes on record against moving the Man on the Monument from Youngstown's Central Square. Moving the monument has been suggested as part of a remodeling of the square.
More than 150 boys gather at Hammond and Staatz drives in Austintown apparently to witness a fight between two boys. Yards and flower gardens in the area were damaged and police picked up 26 boys for questioning.
April 18, 1957: Youngstown Mayor Frank X. Kryzan says he's ready to sit down with city council to discuss the possibility of raises for the city's 1,300 employees.
A plan to modernize the fronts of Federal Street stores -- dubbed "Operation Facelift" -- will be discussed at a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Pick-Ohio.
Sheriff Tom Flagula of Ashtabula County testifies in Columbus that the General Assembly should give county sheriffs more power to deal with riots in connection with strikes and other disturbances.
April 18, 1932: Jack Durrell, 35, a Youngstown amateur pilot, and Carl Hannold, 28, his passenger, are killed when their plane falls from 300 feet onto the Webb farm just West of Youngstown.
Three striking miners at Cadiz are shot in the legs when they fail to disburse on the order of Ohio National Guardsmen.
A one-cent increase in gasoline prices brings gasoline at Standard Oil stations in the Youngstown area to 16, 18 and 21 cents a gallon.