This post is completely not related to the kids, but about stuff that happens between April 15-20. It's very bizarre, but this time frame is like the modern day Ides of March. All kinds of bad stuff. Here is a list:
April 15 (Tax Day)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.
1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, causing the deaths of about 1,503 people.
1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, a football stadium in Sheffield, resulting in 96 deaths.
April 16
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in American history, leaves 33 dead, including the killer.
April 18
1880 - A F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1906 - An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.9, destroys much of San Francisco, California.
April 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.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
April 20
1889 - Born: Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator who ruled Nazi Germany during the Second World War (d. 1945)
1914 - Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre.
Sorry for such a downer post.
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