Many forget but I wanted to remind you guys of the importance of Apr 19 historically....Lexington Green in 1775. Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.....Waco in 1993 to name a few.....A forgotten date in our history but an important one I've always felt.
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1889 – Hitler's birthday (April 19th here, April 20th in Austria at the time)
1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. (Da furk???)
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
Things that are scheduled:
Patriot's Day (Massachusetts, Maine, Wisconsin)
Things that popped out at me celebrated this day:
Expeditus Give it a read, gets the paranoia button REALLY glowing red hot. (Making human sacrifices, anyone?)You're still walking free. Enjoy it while you can.
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