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REMEMBERING PASTOR CHARLES STANLEY
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.
THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
On April 18, 1906, at 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close
to 8.0 on the Richter scale struck San Francisco, California, killing
an estimated 3,000 people as it topples numerous buildings.
The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a
segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.
San Francisco’s brick buildings and wooden Victorian structures
were especially devastated. Fires immediately broke out and–
because broken water mains prevented firefighters from stopping
them–firestorms soon developed citywide.
At 7 a.m., U.S. Army troops from Fort Mason reported to the Hall
of Justice, and San Francisco Mayor E.E. Schmitz called for the enforcement of a dusk-to-dawn curfew and authorized soldiers
to shoot to kill anyone found looting.
Meanwhile, in the face of significant aftershocks, firefighters and
U.S. troops fought desperately to control the ongoing fire, often dynamiting whole city blocks to create firewalls.
By April 23, most fires were extinguished, and authorities
commenced the task of rebuilding the devastated metropolis.
It was estimated that some 3,000 people died as a result of the
Great San Francisco Earthquake and the devastating fires it
inflicted upon the city. Almost 30,000 buildings were destroyed,
including most of the city’s homes and nearly all the central
business district.
Charles Francis Richter (1900 – 1985)
was an American seismologist and
physicist. He is the namesake and
one of the creators of the Richter
scale.
ENTERTAINMENT ICON DIED ON THIS DAY
Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
On April 18, 2012, Dick Clark, the TV personality and producer
best known for hosting “American Bandstand,” an influential
music-and-dance show that aired nationally from 1957 to 1989
and helped bring rock `n’ roll into the mainstream in the late
1950s, died of a heart attack at age 82 in Santa Monica, California.
The clean-cut, youthful-looking Clark, dubbed “America’s Oldest Teenager,” also was the longtime host of the annual telecast
“New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and headed an entertainment empire
that developed game shows, awards shows, talk shows, made-
for-TV movies and other programs.
‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.’
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar
spacecraft that suffered a severe malfunction on its journey
to the moon, safely returned to Earth on April 17, 1970.
On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was
launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell,
John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise.
The mission was headed for a landing on the Fra Mauro
highlands of the moon. However, two days into the mission,
disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank
No. 2 blew up in the spacecraft.
Swigert reported to mission control on Earth, “Houston, we’ve
had a problem here,” and it was discovered that the normal
supply of oxygen, electricity, light and water had been disrupted.
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