Saturday, April 19th, 2008

It's actually about tomorrow and the next day, but I'm posting today. Whatever. Just follow the bouncing ball.

I have no idea why this is, but April 19th is a very bad day in the history if of this world. More so than any other particular day, it seems.

April 19th, through the years:

1904 - Much of Toronto, Canada is destroyed by fire.

1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenityfor her play Sex.

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.

1943 - Bicycle Day: Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC.

1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life for the Sharon Tate murders.

1985 - U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R. The explosive is hydrogen.

1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors, the result of one distraught sailor's suicidal bent.

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, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas.

2001 - Orlando, FL. The monster comes to roost at my house.

A footnote: April 20th was Columbine and April 16th Virginia Tech. Beware the ides of April, my friend.

April.