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Moments in Time The History Channel + On April 20, 1906, firefighters halt the spread of flames in San Francisco after an earthquake two days earlier caused a substantial part of the city to burn. Nearly 700 people lost their lives and 200,000 were left homeless. + On April 18, 1929, "Small Talk," the first Our Gang picture with sound, debuts. The series' mischievous band of kids, later known as the Little Rascals, quickly caught on with the public, especially after characters Spanky, Alfalfa and Darla were added in the early 1930s. + On April 16, 1943, in Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist, accidentally consumes LSD- 25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938. Widespread use of the so-called mind-expanding drug did not begin until the 1960s. + On April 19, 1957, the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass., near Harvard University, presents its first showing of "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart, spawning a cult following. Bogart had been wounded aboard a Navy ship in World War I. His upper lip was scarred and partially paralyzed, giving him the tough-guy poker face and slight lisp that characterized his acting. + On April 17, 1964, Ford introduces the Mustang on the first day of the New York World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. The base price for the Ford Mustang was $2,368, but buyers purchased an average of $1,000 worth of options. + On April 22, 1970, Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world's environmental problems, is celebrated for the first time. In July of that year, the Environmental Protection Agency was established to regulate and enforce national pollution legislation.
(c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.
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