On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000. Click here for more Today in History.
This photo, taken later in the day following the earthquake on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, shows the damage caused by the natural disaster along a broad avenue in San Francisco, Ca. This is a photo showing the destroyed American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, following a car bomb, April 19, 1983. Portrait of Albert Einstein taken in Princeton, USA, in June 1954. Einstein was born at Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879.
In 1865, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina, bringing further closure to the Civil War, which had formally ended.
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