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.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

( John ) Boutflower of Christ's was twelfth in the list, coming from Perse School under Mr. Lovering as pensioner 20 April 1625 under Mr. Alsop.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.

On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

It was a Saturday evening in April with a mist-like rain, and I was a little high on the good taste of life.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

On April 9, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the war was effectively over.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.