At 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, an earthquake woke up residents of San Francisco and tossed them from their beds. Little did they know that it was going to be one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. Read our article, Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.””
Daily Calendar for Saturday, April 18, 2026
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Died
- Edouard Albert Roche (astronomer) –
- Albert Einstein (physicist) –
- Thor Heyerdahl (Norwegian adventurer and author) –
- Dick Clark (entertainer) –
Born
- James Woods (actor) –
- Eric Roberts (actor) –
- Conan O'Brien (talk show host) –
- Melissa Joan Hart (actress) –
- Miguel Cabrera (baseball player) –
- America Ferrera (actress) –
Events
- Paul Revere’s ride began in Boston, Massachusetts. –
- San Francisco earthquake –
- Beatification ceremony for Joan of Arc held in Rome, Italy –
- Old Yankee stadium opened in N.Y.C. –
- First U.S. public laundromat opened, Fort Worth, Texas –
- League of Nations dissolved –
- Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil ceremony –
- Lighted fishing pole patented –
- The longest professional baseball game started on this night. The 33-inning game spanned 3 days, beginning on April 18, extending into April 19, and ending on June 23. The Pawtucket (Rhode Island) Red Sox beat the Rochester (New York) Red Wings 3-2. Cal Ripken was playing 3rd base for the Red Wings –
- Beauty and the Beast was the first Disney animated film to become a Broadway musical. It opened on this day at New York’s Palace Theater –
- Cardinals gathered in Rome to select Pope John Paul II’s successor –
- Catherine Ndereba, of Kenya, won the 109th Boston Marathon for an unprecedented fourth time in the women’s division –
- Aaron Caissie set a world record by balancing 17 spoons on his face –
- The Banshee roller coaster opened in Mason, Ohio, establishing a new record for longest inverted coaster (4,124 feet) –
Weather
- The temperature soared to 90 degrees F in New York City –
- Logan Airport in Boston reported a temperature of 2 degrees F –
- The Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead region of North Dakota rose more than 20 feet above flood stage. –
- The temperature reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit in Del Rio, Texas –