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Also on April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.
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on this day... I should've been shoved back in!!!
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April 19, 1775
The American Revolution begins At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment's hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. ---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:34 AM ---------- April 19, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins In Warsaw, Poland, Nazi forces attempting to clear out the city's Jewish ghetto are met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. ---------- Post added at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 AM ---------- April 19, 1993 Branch Davidian compound burns At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launches a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending a tense 51-day standoff between the federal government and an armed religious cult. By the end of the day, the compound was burned to the ground, and some 80 Branch Davidians, including 22 children, had perished in the inferno. ---------- Post added at 12:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:39 AM ---------- April 19, 1995 Truck bomb explodes in Oklahoma City Just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble. 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. |
Also on April 19, 1933, Jayne Mansfield was born...
Jayne Mansfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 19, 1933- The United States went off the gold standard.
Maybe some one knew was we had Jayne nobody was going to care about the gold? |
On April 20th, 1999- Two students went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives.
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Also on April 20, 1972, Carmen Electra was born...
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On April 21st, 1986- A vault in Chicago's Lexington Hotel that was linked to Al Capone was opened during a live TV special hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Except for a few bottles and a sign, the vault was empty.
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On April 22nd, 1952- An atomic test conducted in Nevada became the first nuclear explosion shown on live network TV.
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Also on April 22, 1451, Queen Isabella I was born...
Isabella I of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
On April 23, 1967,Melina Kanakaredes was born...
Melina Kanakaredes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Also on April 23rd, 1971- The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released.
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Also on April 24, 1898- Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
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On this day, my spicy dinner from last night seems like a mistake.
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Also on April 25th, 1507- "America" was first used as the name of a continent on a map. German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller used the name in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
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Also on April 26, 1986- The world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately.
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On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
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Also on May 3rd, 1988- The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule President Ronald Reagan's activities.
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May 3rd, 1469- Italian philosopher/writer Niccolo Machiavelli was born.
1937- Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind won the Pulitzer. 1952- pilot William P. Benedict and co-pilot Joseph O. Fletcher flew the first aircraft to the north pole. they were also the first to set foot on the north pole. |
On May 4, 1970, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Allison Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer died...
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Also on May 4th, 1946- A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended after five people were killed.
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Have you seen the "KNOWING" movie guyz? you sounds like this movie.. :)
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Also on May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla
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On May 6, 1959, Mare Winningham was born...
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Also on May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.
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May 7, 1915 - German submarine U-20 sinks the RMS Lusitania
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