Posted on 19 April 2011. Tags: Alfred P. Murrah, American Revolution, Boston Marathon, Branch Davidian Building, Civil War, David Koresh, Earthquake, George Mickelson, Guatemala, John J. McDermott, John Pitcairn, Oklahoma City Bombing, Plane Crash, South Dakota, Texas, Timothy McVeigh, Waco, Warsaw, WWII
The American Revolution begins – First blood in the Civil War – First Boston Marathon held – Earthquake rocks Guatemala – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die – Oklahoma City bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building explodes
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Posted on 12 April 2011. Tags: Civil War, Columbia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jerusalem, John W. Young, Mark Strand Theatre, Robert L. Crippen, Space Shuttle, Suicide Bomber, Townshend Act, Vostok 1, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
British repeal hated Townshend Act – The Civil War begins – First movie “palace” opens – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies – First man in space – First space shuttle launched – A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda open-air market
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