While some of the events are not as significant as others.
I find it sad that our news orgs are not mentioning the two that should be clear and honored today.
The start of our fight for independance and the deaths of 168 innocent people.
I cannot believe our illustrious leader has not made mention of and remembrance of the ones who died in Ok city ?
April 19th has always been an important day in our American history.
It is the day Crispus Attucks fired the shot heard round the world in 1775.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
It is the day in 1933 America moved away from the gold standard and went to a paper currency based system.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
April 19th is also a memorable day in world history.
1936 – First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
It is same day in 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
I find it sad that our news orgs are not mentioning the two that should be clear and honored today.
The start of our fight for independance and the deaths of 168 innocent people.
I cannot believe our illustrious leader has not made mention of and remembrance of the ones who died in Ok city ?
April 19th has always been an important day in our American history.
It is the day Crispus Attucks fired the shot heard round the world in 1775.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
It is the day in 1933 America moved away from the gold standard and went to a paper currency based system.
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
April 19th is also a memorable day in world history.
1936 – First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
It is same day in 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
