Haymarket Affair, 4 May 1886
Kent State, 4 May 1970
Just sayin’. Be careful out there, comrades.
we just passed the 3rd week of april:
– April 19, 1993: the FBI’s siege of the Waco compound leaves 76 dead.
– April 19, 1995: the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people.
– April 20, 1999: A mass shooting at Columbine High School leaves 15 dead.
– April 16, 2007: The Virginia Tech massacre kills 33.
just saying. . . we could probably do this for just about any date! the govt and wackos (two groups with alot of overlap) dont plan things according to the calendar
mc
May the Fourth be with you.
It is also the anniversary of Cinco de Mayo circa 1862 very soon (not to be confused with the condiment or the medical clinic). I am not trying to scare anyone but, all I am saying, is to guard your Margarita mix and salsa much better than usual.
And also with you.
Even just the 15th has a lot of blood.
April 15, 1865: Abraham Lincoln assassinated
April 15, 1912: RMS Titanic sinks killing at least 1,500 passengers
April 15,1941: German Luftwaffe bombs Belfast, leaving 1,000 dead
April 15, 1969: North Korea shoots down an American surveillance plane, killing all 31 sailors and marines on board.
April 15,1989: 96 people crushed to death in Hillsborough Stadium and Tianianmen Square protest begins
April 15,2013: Boston Marathon bombing kills three (and the bombers shut the city down again on the 19th, killing another two people)
And with your spirit.
(or maybe “and with your blue glowy force-ghost”)
Revenge of the Fifth.
I see where the OP is coming from and I concur.
Today’s a real doozy:
1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1886 – The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura, Greece.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
2014 – Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
Beware the revenge of the Fifth!
The OKC bombing is actually an exception to this. Mcveigh chose 4/19 as the date of his attack specifically because it was the anniversary of the Waco siege.
yea i know. . .i was trying to make a point, and picked the wrong date. . .there’s also speculation that the columbine boys wanted “to rival the Oklahoma City bombing and other deadly incidents in the United States in the 1990s.” so they may have picked the date as well!
mc
Given a moment of thought, apparent synchronicities seem important. Give them another moment of thought and Shallow Time starts being silly leaving us with but 365 days, every damn year, to cram every year into.
If you type in a day of the year in Wikipedia, it gives all the things that happened on that day in history. Here’s May 6:
You mean “Et cum spirit 2-2-0” [sup]1[/sup]
Or that.
[sup]1[/sup] A Catholic joke, and a very dated one at that.