A big, big day, historically speaking, for all sorts of reasons.
The 24 hour period that begins with sunrise on April 19 is a very busy day in history.
- 1775—American Revolutionary War: The war begins at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
- 1782—The Netherlands becomes the first nation to officially recognize the United States as being an independent nation
- 1861—First Union soldier of the Civil War is killed by rioters in Baltimore while quelling pro-secession riot
- 1865—Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral is held
- 1943—World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- 1989—A gun turret of the USS Iowa explodes. I was nearby on another ship. Had friends on the crew. The Navy tried to make one of the dead sailors into a patsy.
- 1993—The Government kills 76 people in Waco, TX in revenge for the killing of 4 ATF agents. The original raid was due to the failure to pay taxes on rifles.
- 1995—Murrah Building is bombed by Tim McVeigh in revenge for the Waco killings.
Coincidence? I think n…uhh, well, actually, it’s hard to know quite WHAT to think about this. Believe it or not—and it’s equally hard to—there’s even more yet.
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