In 1966, Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first Black coach.
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.In 1923, the first game was played at the original Yankee Stadium in New York; the Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1.In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, at age 76.In 2002, police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, nearly a year earlier .
Ten years ago: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized for gruesome photographs published in the Los Angeles Times that purported to show U.S. soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan two years earlier.In 2016, “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop stage biography of America’s first treasury secretary, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
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Today in sports history: April 18In 1966, Bill Russell is named the coach of the Boston Celtics to become the first Black head coach of an NBA team. See more sports moments from this date:
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Today in sports history: April 17In 1987, Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers becomes the third player to score 30,000 points in his pro career. See more sports moments from this date:
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