1775 Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
1861 Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1906 SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city
1955 Albert Einstein developer of relativity theory, dies
1958 A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.
1971 Howard Hughes billionaire, dies
1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon
2007 The US Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
