APRIL 18 IN HISTORY

A lot of significant events seem to have happened on April 18 in the past. This Day in History, on the History Channel website, lists several in different categories, highlighting Paul Revere's famous ride. 440 International's Those Were The Days also highlights Paul Revere's ride (once the 18th is past, go to "archives" and click on that date on the calendar). The Library of Congress website's Today in History highlights the San Francisco Earthquake, which occurred today in 1906. More information on this event can be found on the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco website. Dan Kurzman's 2001 book, Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906(979.461 KUR) is available at the Elk Grove Village Library; it's in Large Print as well. To many of us, though, the quintessential account of that event is the 1936 movie entitled San Francisco starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Jeanette MacDonald. The library does have a copy of this on VHS.