Ultima-Ratio
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Never Forget Folks!
April 19 Is An Important Date Isn't IT?
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deanf
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Yes. A lot of bad things have happened on this date.
WonderNine
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It's the third anniversary of the day I learned to play tuba.
Sean Cloherty
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It's my Birthday!
Detachment Charlie
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Let's see......
two groups of men confronted each other at a bridge. A shot was fired. It was heard around the world.
two groups of men confronted each other at a bridge. A shot was fired. It was heard around the world.
Lexington & Concord
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Waco
http://carolmoore.net/waco/
OKC Bombing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Oklahoma_City_Bombing
Warsaw Ghetto info:
http://www.davenportlibrary.com/ref/hist/hid/histhidholo.htm scroll down to Ghettos>The Warsaw Ghetto
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Waco
http://carolmoore.net/waco/
OKC Bombing
http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Oklahoma_City_Bombing
Warsaw Ghetto info:
http://www.davenportlibrary.com/ref/hist/hid/histhidholo.htm scroll down to Ghettos>The Warsaw Ghetto
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html
Detachment Charlie
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And about 85 years later, the first real shots of the war between the states were fired in Baltimore, MD. A group of Rebels fired on troops from Massachusetts...12 Rebels and 4 Union Troops died.
sm
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Yep !
Sean Cloherty,
Yep me too.
Like me you probably a bit hesitant about turning on news upon awakening on this day.
Sean Cloherty,
Yep me too.
Like me you probably a bit hesitant about turning on news upon awakening on this day.
Henry Bowman
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Wasn't there something that started in Waco, TX in 1993, also? 
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sm
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Mr. Bowman - Yessir
Two events of more recent times:
Waco
OK Bombing
( hesitant to turn on the news this am as well...)
Two events of more recent times:
Waco
OK Bombing
( hesitant to turn on the news this am as well...)
TheBluesMan
Senior Member
Gen. Douglas MacArthur retired on this day in 1951.
April 19 is best known as Patriot's Day.
No, not Patriot Day, Patriot's Day!
April 19 is best known as Patriot's Day.
No, not Patriot Day, Patriot's Day!
4570Rick
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April 19 On this day...
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
April 19 On this day...
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
1995 My son, Tanner, came in to this world.
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes US
1852 California Historical Society forms
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
1995 My son, Tanner, came in to this world.
4570Rick
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Ironbarr
Hells bells, I edited 95% of the data from this web site before posting.
Hells bells, I edited 95% of the data from this web site before posting.
Diggler
Member
Suicide?? OK, if Ms. Reno says so...
Fed168
Member
Richard Wayne Snell executed (tied into OKC).
El Tejon
Member
fog, Red Raiders did their deed on Hitler's birthday, the 20th.
Moparmike
Member
For some number of years I kept wondering what would happen on my birthday, July 17. Hell, 2 or 3 planes crashed on my birthday, most noteably being TWA 800. I had a conspiracy theory going on if a historic event would take place on my birthday, +/- 5 days. Something happened like clockwork for about 7 years straight.
Huh. Donald Sutherland and I have the same birthday. (Hawkeye from MASH movie)
DonP
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1st failed attempt at gun control, 4/19/1775
Sarah Brady's great, great, great, great uncle (in my fevered imagination I imagine Sarah with a slightly heavier moustache), commanding a troop of British soldiers and German Hessian mercenaries, attempted to confiscate the weapons and powder of the Massachusetts militia stored at Concord via the Lexington green.
This attempt at early gun control was remarkably unsuccessful and the Brits ran all the way back to Boston to stay with the Kerry's and Kennedy's, strong sympathizers of their gun confiscation programs.
History tells us that Diane Feinstein, only 35 at the time and considered quite a hottie by the Kennedy family but far too poor for the Kerry's, served as a bar wench for the British and Hessian troops.
... and that is this day in history, April 19, 1775.
Sarah Brady's great, great, great, great uncle (in my fevered imagination I imagine Sarah with a slightly heavier moustache), commanding a troop of British soldiers and German Hessian mercenaries, attempted to confiscate the weapons and powder of the Massachusetts militia stored at Concord via the Lexington green.
This attempt at early gun control was remarkably unsuccessful and the Brits ran all the way back to Boston to stay with the Kerry's and Kennedy's, strong sympathizers of their gun confiscation programs.
History tells us that Diane Feinstein, only 35 at the time and considered quite a hottie by the Kennedy family but far too poor for the Kerry's, served as a bar wench for the British and Hessian troops.
... and that is this day in history, April 19, 1775.
anapex
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Important for me because my second son was born then.
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