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.
- 1976 – Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
- 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
- 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.
- 1999- The Columbine massacre was carried out the morning of April 20th
- 2013- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police.
- 2020- A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest shooting rampage in the country’s history. This led directly to the Canadian Prime Minister banning the sale of all “assault weapons” immediately by fiat on May 1.
- 2021- Derek Chauvin trial ends and heads to the jury.
- 2021- The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
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MrLiberty · April 19, 2023 at 8:56 am
It has been important to sully the date of a secessionist/anti-government/pro-freedom uprising (Lexington and Concord) with their own domestic terrorism against their citizens ever since. Even worse that they had the nerve to “rename” 9-11 “Patriot Day” as a further slam (despite of course their OWN role in executing the events of 9-11).
MN Steel · April 19, 2023 at 7:58 pm
Nothing of note happened in the US between 1865 and 1976?
McChuck · April 21, 2023 at 4:18 am
The four ATF agents were killed by each other and the FBI in a remarkably stupid crossfire. The simultaneously breached the house in two teams on opposite sides of the same 2nd story room, and shot each other. The civilians were all hiding in the basement.
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