[whirlwind]

isnt today hitlers birthday? (apr-20)i was wondering cause i was thinking that they blew up the fed building in oklahoma city on hitlers birthday but havent heard the usual tributes to the victims on tv?

[Doglips]

hitler's birthday is april 20

(4/19) IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED THE CHURCH AND LIVING QUARTERS OF THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN RELIGIOUS SECT NEAR THE U-S CITY OF WACO, TEXAS

August 21 will be the Ruby Ridge Anniversary

Some say OKC was in retaleation for WACO....the Hitler B-day part is also sited....maybe Jannet Renno just strck WACO a day early?????????

[Doglips]

Adolf Hitler
Pronunciation: [ä´dôlf hit´lur]
1889–1945, founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazis), and German dictator; born in Braunau in Upper Austria. Early Life
The son of Alois Hitler (1837–1903), an Austrian customs official. Adolf Hitler dropped out of high school, and after his mother's death in 1907 he moved to Vienna. He twice failed the admission examination for the academy of arts. His vicious anti-Semitism (perhaps influenced by that of Karl Lueger) and political harangues drove many acquaintances away. In 1913 he settled in Munich, and upon the outbreak of World War I he joined the Bavarian army. During the war he was gassed and wounded; a corporal, he received the Iron Cross (first class) for bravery. The war hardened his extreme nationalism, and he blamed the German defeat on betrayal by Jews and Marxists. Upon his return to Munich he joined with a handful of other nationalistic veterans in the German Workers' party.

[SexyRedXterra]

Isn't this around the Columbine anniversary too?

[Doglips]

i belive so

[whirlwind]

i had the mother of all motorcycle wrecks in april too!...APRIL SUX!

[Despoiler]

On April 19, 1529 In Germany at the Diet of Spires (Speyer), a document signed by Lutheran leaders in fourteen cities lodged a "protest" which demanded a freedom of conscience and the right of minorities. Henceforth, the German Lutheran Reformers were known as "Protestants".

April 19, 1587: English captain Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour.

April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commanded by King George III to suppress the rebellious Americans, had ordered 700 British soldiers, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John Pitcairn, to seize the colonists' military stores in Concord, some 20 miles west of Boston.

April 19, 1783: Cessation of Hostilities, American Revolution

April 19, 1861 Civil War threatened to destroy the fledgling Republic of the United States of America, first blood was drawn, when a Baltimore mob attempted to stop Massachusetts troops heading for Washington, D.C. (Lincoln also ordered a blockade of Confederate ports on that same day.)

April 19 was designated as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts in 1894 to commemorate the opening battles of the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord in 1775, and the end of the war in 1783.

April 19, 1903: Eliot Ness born

April 19, 1906: San Francisco earthquake and fire.

April 19, 1933The U.S. went off the gold standard, which wasn't necessarily a violent event, although they may as well have sliced America's jugular, it's just a slower bleed this way.

April 19, 1939: Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights.

April 19, 1943: Germans assault the Warsaw Ghetto

April 19, 1951 -- Gen. Douglas MacArthur, dismissed by President Harry Truman as commander of the U.N. and Far East Commands, addresses a joint session of Congress April 19 quoting a line from a ballad: ''Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'' The packed chambers and gallery full of diplomats, military leaders and citizens, give standing ovations to the general before and after his speech, and interrupt him several times with prolonged applause.

April 19, 1989: A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

April 19, 1993: FBI Assault on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco Texas. 81 people perished in that firestorm and gunfire.

April 19, 1995: One hundred sixty-eight people died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

April 19, 1996, the largest single-day total of tornadoes ever struck the state of Illinois. 36 tornadoes were documented, some as strong as F-3 on the Fujita tornado intensity scale. Tornadoes also were reported in parts of Missouri, Iowa, Indiana and Kentucky.

April 19, 1997: Flooding from the Red River forced more than 50,000 residents to abandon Grand Forks, N.D.

April 20, 1889 Adolph Hitler born

April 20, 1999: 14 students (including killers) and 1 teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in the nation's deadliest school shooting.