APRIL 18
1775:Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott begin their famous rides from Boston to the towns of Lexington and Concord to alert American patriots that “the British are coming, the British are coming!”
1906: More than 3,000 people are killed and 28,000 buildings are leveled when a rupture along the San Andreas Fault causes an earthquake that strikes San Francisco, engulfing much of the city in fire.
1983: Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple, becoming the first African American woman to win the prize for fiction.
1906: More than 3,000 people are killed and 28,000 buildings are leveled when a rupture along the San Andreas Fault causes an earthquake that strikes San Francisco, engulfing much of the city in fire.
1983: Alice Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple, becoming the first African American woman to win the prize for fiction.
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