Four anniversaries next week: OKC, Waco, Nixon, and Columbine

[UrbScotty]

April 19, 1993: About 70 people were killed in the Waco siege

April 22, 1994: Richard Milhous Nixon, 81, died after a stroke

April 19, 1995: 168 people were killed in an attack on the Alfred P. Murragh Federal Building in Oklahoma; for six and a half years, that would sand as the deadliest attack in the continental US

April 20, 1999: 12 students and a teacher died in the deadliest school shooting in US history at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO

April 16, 2004: Clinton, I'm sure, is still blamed for all of this (even Nixon's death)

Just watch out, folks. I don't think anything bad will happen (besides what is happening now), but just be vigilant.

[RoyGBiv]

1. Bad Month

April is harsh.

I have this compulsive habit of saving local newspapers with headlines relating to dramatic events. I have quite a number of newspapers from April. The newspapers I have for the OKC bombing fills a box.

I have a cousin who was injured in the OKC bombing and an uncle who worked there and had retired three weeks before. To this day, both suffer from "survivor's guilt."

Ignore me. Just rambling.

[bobbieinok]

2. April 19 1775 - Battles of Lexinton and Concord

and Emerson's poem 'Concord Hymn'

By the rude bridge that arched the flood......

[coloradodem2005]

3. Columbine really hit me close to home.

I went to a nearby high school. I don't cry in public much but I was crying after that happened. I was in my first year of college at this point and I heard this on the news. I could not believe that this was going on so close to my childhood home. I went to church around this time and a girl that I new from there was killed. Her name was Cassie Bernall. While she has become known as the "She said Yes" girl and was propped up as a poster child for the evangelicals, I knew her. I think she was very real about her beliefs and I saw her as a very shy, nice and pretty girl and it sickened me that she died and it sickened me the way the evangelicals exploited the tale of her death.

[UrbScotty]

5. My aunt lives in Littleton.

She has since about 1995 or 1996, I'd say.

As you can imagine, it hit close to home for me, too. My aunt's real estate agent's daughter died there.

Six degrees of seperation.

[name not needed]

4. apr. 20th stoner christmas

:)

[NMDemDist2]

6. the numerology fringe is "predicting" Sears Tower terror attack on the 19t

911 days, 911 minutes after 9-11 at 3PM something when you add the 911 seconds

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=46682

[mot78]

22. I'm really scared of April 19th

Even if there's no Sears Tower attack, there's an eclipse that day...and for LIHOP/MIHOP people, * can't afford to let/make another attack, but maybe he'd tell the Sheeple that he "foiled" one.

[yella_dawg]

7. The network execs must be drooling all over their shoes.

The amount of eyewash tape spooled up, ready to broadcast, must be huge.

[NoPasaran]

8. Not all bad

April 19, 1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord

"By The Rude Bridge That Arched The Flood,
Their Flag to April's Breeze Unfurled,
Here Once The Embattled Farmers Stood,
And Fired The Shot Heard Round The World."

http://earlyamerica.com/shot_heard.htm

[BabsSong]

9. We go on vacation on this school vacation week (varies) here in

the Northeast. And these things happend on every one. Each time we go we wonder what good think we will come back to the hotel and see this time. I'm surprised 9/11 didn't happen in April!!!!!

[UrbScotty]

10. Just remember: Hitler eas born April 20, 1889

[TahitiNut]

11. It's my first wife's birthday, too.

[mediaman007]

12. April 19,...Bombing of gov't center in Oklahoma City!

Its my son's birthday...He is the only thing good that ever happened on that day!

[fujiyama]

13. Some really terrible events

I was a senior in HS during Columbine. I remember spending several days discussing it in classes. It definetely was a shock because the school I attended was very similar in many ways.

Luckilly we never did have any school shootings.

I also remember worrying about the racist backlash that occured after the OK city bombings was at first, falsely blamed on Arabs.

[osaMABUSh]

14. May 1, 2003 * declares Mission Accomplished - War Ends

You know, IJ Day, Victory in Iraq. I'm sure your grandkids will read about in History books some day.

[Valerie5555]

15. April 24 - 25 1980 Operation Eagle's Claw or as some

:tinfoilhat: types call it "Operation Get Carter"


Bet those 8 fallen commandoes could have shown Bush a thing or 2 about gutsiness.

[hang a left]

16. Some other events

April 19

•The American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington & Concord, 1775
•Spanish-American War began, 1898
•First Lady Lucretia Garfield born, 1832
•A truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Bldg., in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 and injuring 500, 1995

[proud patriot]

17. Wow real Crappy week in history

x(

[hang a left]

18. Here are some more

April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). There are 256 days remaining.

{{msg:AprilCalendar}}


Events
1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London
1539 - The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz Harbor
1770 - Captain James Cook first spots Australia
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord - British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts. The American Revolutionary War begins.
1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
1839 - The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom
1861 - American Civil War: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland attacks United States Army troops marching through the city
1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is destroyed by fire.
1909 - Joan of Arc is declared a saint
1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful parachute jump and free fall
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex
1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces that the United States will be leaving the gold standard
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer
1938 - RCA-NBC begins regular television broadcasts
1943 - World War II: German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1946 - The League of Nations dissolves itself transferring its powers to the United Nations.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure
1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders.
1987 - The Simpsons make their first appearance on television, on The Tracey Ullman Show, in the short episode called "Good Night"
1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1989 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park jogger" is raped
1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168
1999 - The German Parliament returns to Berlin.
2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes nearby Davao airport killing 131\n\n

[Pastiche423]

19. Pastiche turns 50 on April 23

:wow:

[hang a left]

20. Oh stop it , you are in your prime.

and if I don't see ya, Happy B Day :-)

[NMDemDist2]

24. AZDem turns 49 (again) on the 24th n/t

[mitchum]

21. "April is the cruelest month..."

[nomatrix]

23. This will go down in history

"With the announcement of the deaths of four more Marines, at least 87 troops have been reported killed in action in less than two weeks. Previously, November had seen the most deaths, 82. Roughly 680 U.S. troops have died in Iraq.

Some 880 Iraqis have been killed this month. Among those are more than 600 Iraqis — mostly civilians — killed in Fallujah, according to the city hospital's director."

http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=28449

[yelladawg]

25. Time to send in the chickenhawks

Time to send the supporters of this war to fight it.

[UrbScotty]

26. Yeah

:-(