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óæå ïðîøëî 18 April

1906 : Earthquake in San Francisco On 18 April 1906, an earthquake strucked the city of San Francisco, California. Much of the city was destroyed and 300 people were killed. The earthquake led to a series of fires which spread throughout the city.
1955 : Albert Einstein On 18 April 1955, the famous physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein died at the age of 76.
1956 : Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco On 18 April 1956, the American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco at the Palace of Monaco. Alfred Hitchcock was her best man.
1983 : Suicide bombing against the U.S. embassy in Beirut On April 18, 1983, a truck containing 500kg of explosives strucked the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack was claimed by Hezbollah, and killed 63 people.
1996 : Greek tourists killed in Cairo On April 18, 1996, gunmen fired on a group of Greek tourists, outside the Europa Hotel in Cairo, Egypt. The Islamic group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya claimed the attack, stating that they thought they were Israeli tourists.
2007 : Nearly 200 died in bomb attacks in Iraq On April 18, 2007, a series of bombs exploded in Baghdad killing nearly 200 people. It had been the bloodiest day since U.S. troops invaded in 2003.

Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine politician and daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1480)
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (1819)
George H. Hitchings, American doctor, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1905)
Virginia O'Brien, American actress (1919)
Jean Richard, French actor (1921)
Barbara Hale, American actress (1922)
Bob Hastings, American actor (1925)
Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1940)
Hayley Mills, English actress (1946)
Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor (1946)
James Woods, American actor (1947)
Régis Wargnier, French director (1948)
Rick Moranis, Canadian actor (1953)
Eric Roberts, American actor (1956)
Laurent Baffie, French comedian (1958)
Eric McCormack, Canadian actor (1963)
Zazie, French singer (1964)
Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian athlete (1973)
Edgar Wright, English director (1974)
Olivier Besancenot, French politician (1974)
Melissa Joan Hart, American actress (1976)
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model (1987)

Gustave Moreau, French painter (1898)
John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist (1945)
John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist (1945)
Óscar Carmona, Portuguese politician (1951)
Albert Einstein, German american physicist (1955)
Ben Hecht, American screenwriter and writer (1964)
Marcel Pagnol, French writer (1974)
Pierre Desproges, French comedian (1988)
Arturo Frondizi, Argentine politician (1995)
José Garcia Moreno (Garcimore), Spanish illusionist and humorist (2000)
Jean Drucker, French director of television (2003)
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and member of the Resistance (2008)

For your greens stay very green when you cook them, add baking soda to the cooking water.

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