Little-Acorn
04-19-2009, 12:42 PM
April 19, 1775
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.
April 19, 1897
The first Boston Marathon was run.
April 19, 1933
The United States went off the gold standard.
April 19, 1943
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.
April 19, 1993
The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound, shooting inflammable tear gas into the buildings. The resulting fire killed over 80 people.
April 19, 1995
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.
April 19, 1897
The first Boston Marathon was run.
April 19, 1933
The United States went off the gold standard.
April 19, 1943
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.
April 19, 1993
The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound, shooting inflammable tear gas into the buildings. The resulting fire killed over 80 people.
April 19, 1995
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.