Daily Almanac: April 18, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset:

RISE: 7:05 a.m.     

SET: 8:29 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

High: 53 °F

Low: 33 °F

Wacky Holiday Today:

• Boston Marathon Day

• Patriots’ Day

• National Animal Crackers Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1506 Construction of the current St. Peter’s Basilica begins

• 1906 A massive earthquake destroys San Francisco

• 1949 Ireland becomes an independent republic

Births On This Day:

• 1964 Niall Ferguson

Scottish historian

• 1971 David Tennant

Scottish actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1955 Albert Einstein

German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1943 Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese Admiral