At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

As the Russian Revolution of 1905 progressed, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and smaller non-Russian social democratic parties operating within the Russian Empire attempted to reunify at the Fourth ( Unification ) Congress of the RSDLP held at Folkets hus, Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, April 1906.

The final meeting of the Rules Committee tasked with reshaping the game was held on April 6, 1906, at which time the forward pass officially became a legal play.

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

Gödel was born April 28, 1906, in Brünn, Austria-Hungary into the ethnic German family of Rudolf Gödel, the manager of a textile factory, and Marianne Gödel ( born Handschuh ).

The application date submitted by Caleb Bradham for the second trademark is Saturday, April 15, 1905 with the successful registration date of April 15, 1906, over three years after the original date.

A government proposal to this effect was signed on April 7, 1906, by education minister Fridtjuv Berg ( 1851 – 1916 ), and put before the parliament of 1907.

* April 8 – King Christian IX of Denmark ( d. 1906 )

* April 7, 1906 — Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

* April 18, 1906 — The 1906 San Francisco earthquake ( estimated magnitude 7. 8 ) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, USA, killing at least 3, 000, with 225, 000 – 300, 000 left homeless, and $ 350 million in damages.

* April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author who the pseudonyms Mary Gervaise, Hilary Wayne and Bellamy Brown ( b. 1906 )

* April 25 – George Sanders, British actor ( b. 1906 )

* April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director ( b. 1906 )

* April 24 – John Carroll, American actor ( b. 1906 )

* April 22 – Paul Dresser, American songwriter ( d. 1906 )

* April 21 – Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist ( d. 1906 )

* April 24 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur ( b. 1906 )

The university was closed for two months in 1905 in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday: Stravinsky was prevented from taking his final law examinations and later received a half-course diploma in April 1906.

San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

On order of Burley, April 17, 1906 the San Francisco Police Department padlocks the Paradise.

Then, at 5: 13 a. m. April 18, 1906, the earthquake hits and then the fires erupt.

Francis Pharcellus Church ( February 22, 1839 – April 11, 1906 ) was an American publisher and editor.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

Known as a savvy dresser, he made the April 1988 cover of GQ magazine.

The revised edition of Robyn was released in the UK in April 2007, and contains two new tracks —" With Every Heartbeat " ( a collaboration with Kleerup ) and " Cobrastyle " ( a cover of a 2006 single by Swedish rockers Teddybears )— alongside slightly altered versions of two of the original songs.

In 1949, Rockwell donated an original Post cover, " April Fool ", to be raffled off in a library fund raiser.

In April 1993, Select magazine featured Suede's lead singer Brett Anderson on the cover with a Union Flag in the background and the headline " Yanks go home !".

The white limestone on the mountain's barren peak means it appears from a distance to be snow-capped all year round ( its snow cover actually lasts from December to April ).

Sports Illustrated ran the cover story in issue for the week of April 3, 1989.

The April 6, 1970 cover of Newsweek magazine featured a red Gremlin for its article, " Detroit Fights Back: The Gremlin ".

Snow cover disappeared earlier, from late April in the 1930s to late March in the 1980s.

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

* Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12 ( April 1985 – March 1986 ) was collected in hardcover ( December 1998 ; ISBN 1-56389-434-3 ) and trade paperback ( January 2001 ; ISBN 1-56389-750-4 ) editions, with original cover art by George Pérez and Alex Ross.

" The album's singles — the Bruce Johnston-produced original " Bluebirds Over the Mountains " ( Billboard # 64 ) and the Carl Wilson-produced cover of The Ronettes ' " I Can Hear Music "— won lukewarm attention, with the latter reaching # 24 on the Billboard single chart in April 1969 ; the lead track, the Wilson / Love-authored " Do It Again ", an unabashed throwback to the band's earlier surf hits, had been an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching # 20 in the US charts and # 1 the UK while also scoring well in other countries.

Weeks later the group's success broke wide open, with " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " from the musical Hair topping the Hot 100 in April and May and " Wedding Bell Blues " doing so in November, with a U. S. # 20 cover of Neil Sedaka's " Workin ' On A Groovy Thing " in-between.

SNCF's TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on April 3, 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, was able to cover more ground with each rotation and had a stronger 25, 000 hp ( 18, 600 kW ) engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

In a story written by E. Nelson Bridwell for World's Finest Comics # 262 ( cover date April / May 1980 ), Shazam's origins are further explored.

On April 4, 1989, many Chicago media outlets descended on Sauk Village to cover the election of Joseph Wiszowaty, a high school student who was elected to the Village Board of Trustees, and became the youngest man elected in the State of Illinois.

On April 22, 1756, Washington wrote to Ashby that if he was attacked by Native Americans to wait for the cover of darkness then blow up the fort and retreat to Fort Cumberland, taking what ammunition they could.

The band's final album, Mardi Gras, was released in April 1972, featuring songs written by Fogerty, Cook, and Clifford and a cover of " Hello Mary Lou " ( a song Gene Pitney originally wrote for Ricky Nelson.

The next album, New City in April 1975, featured Clayton-Thomas back fronting the band and contained half cover tunes ( Janis Ian, Randy Newman, The Beatles, Blues Image ) and half original material.

In April 1980 the band was able to release an EP entitled Holiday ' 80, containing the principal track " Marianne " and a cover of " Nightclubbing " ( written by Bowie and Iggy Pop ).

When Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Daltrey played the lead role, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for " Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture " and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on 10 April 1975.

He had appeared on the cover once before, in April 1985.

Assuming that the bulk of the Austrian army was deployed so as to cover their bridgehead at Landshut and the main highway to Vienna, on 20 April 1809, Napoleon launched most of his army in an attack to the Southwest.

On April 22, 2008, the BBC Radio 1 Rockshow broadcast a new session of Down recordings featuring alternate versions of " NOD ", " Beneath the Tides ", and " Jail ", along with a cover of " When The Levee Breaks " ( written by Kansas Joe McCoy and his wife Memphis Minnie, and famously covered by Led Zeppelin ).

The cover of Adventure Comics # 247 ( April 1958 ), the Legion's first appearance.