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

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

At the age of 18, Johnson married 16-year-old Eliza McCardle in 1827 ; she was the daughter of a local shoemaker.

At age 18, the youth began a rapid advancement through the company, becoming the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division.

At 18: 20, as Goliath and Zealous rapidly bore down on them, the leading French ships Guerrier and Conquérant opened fire.

At 3 p. m. Duke Jeremi Wiśniowiecki led a successful charge of 18 cavalry companies against the right wing of the Cossack-Tatar Army.

At the age of 18, Clement received a bachelor's degree from Transvaal University College in Pretoria ( now the University of Pretoria ).

At 18, Beaux was appointed drawing teacher at Miss Sanford's School, taking over Drinker's post.

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

At a 18 June Presidium meeting at which two Khrushchev supporters were absent, the plotters moved that Bulganin, who had joined the scheme, take the chair, and proposed other moves which would effectively demote Khrushchev and put themselves in control.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old.

At that time, ΔT was already about 32. 18 seconds.

At the age of 18, he went to Athens for his two-year term of military service.

At about 18: 00, the brigade HQ was overrun.

At about 18: 15, 2nd Armoured Brigade engaged the German armour and halted the Axis eastward advance.

At 18 BDM members went generally to the eastern territory for their Pflichtdienst, or Landjahr – a year of labor on a farm.

At least 18, 000 people met their deaths under the guillotine or otherwise, after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities.

At the age of 18, the exile was lifted and he dwelt briefly in Constantinople and Nicomedia.

At the age of 18, Gödel joined his brother in Vienna and entered the University of Vienna.

At that time, the army was organised into 11 Border Defence and 4 Security Zones, one regime security brigade, 10 Tank Battalions, 10 Mechanized Infantry Battalions, 18 Infantry Battalions, 6 Commando Battalions, 22 Artillery Battalions, 4 SSM Brigade and 7 Air Defence Artillery Battalions.

At $ 18 million per annum the environment program of USAID / Madagascar is the second largest American program in Madagascar, and one of the largest programs of its kind in the world.

At the end of the first day of rescue efforts, 153 had been treated at St. Anthony Hospital, eight blocks from the blast, over 70 at Presbyterian, 41 at University, and 18 at Children's.

At the beginning of 2009, Poland ’ s banking sector had 51 domestic banks, a network of 578 cooperative banks and 18 branches of foreign-owned banks.

At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents, his father dying and his mother remarrying.

At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.

At the beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents ' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.

At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home.

At the time of Gustave's birth his father, an ex-soldier, was working as an administrator for the French Army but shortly after his birth his mother expanded a charcoal business she had inherited from her parents to include a coal-distribution business and soon afterwards his father gave up his job to assist her.

At the age of 23 he learned about his biological parents, contacted his mother, and met her and his then 16 year old sister for the first time.

At the time of his birth the city had a German-speaking majority, and this was the language of his parents.

At times, however, two metals will form alloys with different structures than either of the two parents.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents ' divorce, Sondheim became friends with James Hammerstein, son of the lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

At age fifteen his parents sent him to Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, where he received a classical education.

At age 16 Boole took up a junior teaching position in Doncaster, at Heigham's School, being at this point the breadwinner for his parents and three younger siblings.

At one point, he sat his parents down and recorded their answers to his questions.

At the age of three, Keaton began performing with his parents in The Three Keatons.

At about 12 years old he made a small dissecting kit ( including a scalpel crafted from a flattened pin ) which he used to dissect a bumblebee, but he got into trouble with his parents when he progressed to dissecting a larger specimen.

At six months of age, Sharon won the " Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas Pageant ", but her parents had no show business ambitions for their daughter.

" At this point Frederick's parents felt the only hope for their son was to emigrate to America and start his life over.

At one point, I heard my parents listening to the radio on the Sabbath and I smashed it.

At the age of fifteen, as the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the New York National Guard until his parents urged him to return home.

At the age of nineteen, she explained to her parents that she could not be married as expected, but was devoting herself to religious studies and taking care of the sick and needy.

At this time the school was a charitable foundation dedicated to the education and maintenance of children who had lost one or both parents.

At 8 a. m., his girlfriend left the house, inherited from Helen Harvey, to visit her parents.

* June 8, 1867: New York City At Public School No. 18, a 13 year old lad brought a pistol loaded and capped, without the knowledge of his parents or school-teachers, and shot and injured a classmate.

At an interview in October, 2000, Brin said, " I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and am very thankful that I was brought to the States.

At the death of his parents in 1924, he spent the next 3 years on an LDS mission in Switzerland and Belgium.