Mike Chase (April 17, 1952 – April 18, 2025)

Chase was a professional stock car racing driver. Winner of
the 1994 series championship in the NASCAR Winston West
Series, he also competed in the Winston Cup Series, Busch
Series, and Craftsman Truck Series and worked for Penske
Racing as a crewman. He was 73.

After retiring from competition, Mike Chase worked for several
race teams, including Wood Brothers Racing; he worked for
Penske Racing as a fabricator. Chase was also a crew chief
in the Nationwide Series.

Chase was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of
Fame in 2010.
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Islamist militants have reportedly killed thousands of Christians in Nigeria.

Fears remain this Easter that
Christians in Nigeria are being
‘wiped out’ by Muslim extremists.

Just after 9 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a massive truck bomb
exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the
country, and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks
later the death toll stood at 168 people killed, including 19
young children who were in the building’s day-care center
at the time of the blast.

Einstein in 1893, age 14

   
    
   
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist
who is best  known for developing the theory of
relativity.       

   
On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal
bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal
aortic aneurysm.        

       
He died in the Princeton Hospital early the next
morning at the age of 76

Charles Frazier Stanley Jr.
(September 25, 1932 – April 18, 2023)         
        

Charles Stanley was senior pastor of First Baptist Church
in Atlanta for 49 years and took on emeritus status in 2020.

He founded and was president of In Touch Ministries which
widely broadcasts his sermons through television and radio.

Stanley also served two one-year terms as president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, from 1984 to 1986.

Charles Stanley died at his home in Atlanta at age 90. No
cause of death was released.