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Sometimes It Snows In April and then some.
4/20/1889 - Birthday of Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born Führer of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death (d. 1945) 4/19/1993 - The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. 4/19/1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murder Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas. 4/20/1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre. 4/16/2007 - Virginia Tech massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, leaves thirty-three dead, including the killer. Seriously, WTF is in the air around this week? | |
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Although it was not in the US...
April 6, 1994 - the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide. More then 800,000 killed in the end. Remember HBO did a movie called, Sometimes in April, about the genocide. I digress... "It's not what they call you, it's what you respond to." - Mabel "Madea" Simmons | |
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