1995 USA Oklahoma Bombing
1995: A truck full of explosives destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people. In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and on June 11, 2001 he was executed by lethal injection.
1943 Poland Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943: On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the police and SS auxiliary forces entered the Ghetto under the command of SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg, planning to clean out insurgents who had begun an uprising in January. But Jewish insurgents, who shot and launched Molotov cocktails and hand grenades at them from alleyways forced them to halt the exercise and withdraw. SS-Oberführer Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg was replaced by Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop who proceeded with a better organized assault that included artillery support and on April 29, 1943, the Jewish resistance was crushed. Following two years of misery for thousands of Jews forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi's where they had been starved, and living with disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps which had dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 71,000. The Nazi's planned effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the Treblinka extermination camp caused the Jewish people to begin a revolt against the Nazi's beginning on January 18th, 1943.
1993 USA Waco Cult Raid
1993: An assault on the Waco cult headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas ends in a deadly fire (believed to have been started by those inside) and ends with the death of 70 cult members including the cults leader Mr Koresh. The buildings have been surrounded since February when four agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) were killed as they attempted to arrest Mr Koresh on firearms charges.
1897 USA Boston Marathon
1897: The Worlds oldest annual marathon run in Boston, Massachusetts, United States races for the first time. The Boston Marathon ranks as one of the world's most prestigious road racing events with an average of 20,000 taking part. The marathon is one of five members of the World Marathon Majors which include the cities of Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York City.
1927 Mae West Sentenced
1927: Mae West was sentenced for an obscene stage performance to ten days in a work house and fined $500.
1928 China Civil War
1928: The combined nationalist Northern Armies under Chiang continue drive onto Peking as part of the Civil war continuing in China.
1934 USA Shirley Temple
1934: Shirley Temple appears in the American musical movie with many well known actors and actresses steals the show and goes on to appear in 10 movies in 1934 , including 4 starring roles in major feature-length films.
1936 German Military
1936: In the biggest show of military strength since World War I Germany pays homage to Hitler with a show of 300 tanks.
1940 Jimmy Dorsey
1940: Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra record the song "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga."
1942 France Vichy Government
1942: The New Vichy Government Headed by Pierre Laval at the bidding of his German masters in an attempt to bring the insurgent french people back into line with Nazi ruling by promising to protect the people from the Nazi Regime by gaining concessions.
1945 Popular Musical Carousel
1945: The popular musical "Carousel" opens at the prominent Majestic Theatre in New York City. The production was based on the 1909 play by Ferenc Molnar about a man named Liliom and his lover, Julie.
1956 Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier Honeymoon
1956: Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier start their honeymoon on Deo Javante II 138 ft Yacht but due to heavy seas spent the night in the harbor.
2008 Saudi / U.S.A. The publication of Perpetual Minors
2008: The Human Rights Watch group has said that Saudi women are being kept in perpetual childhood so that male relatives can exercise "guardianship" over them. The New York-based group says that they have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel, study, marry or even receive health care. The group's report, Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia has been published today, and draws on more than one hundred interviews with Saudi women. It says that they are denied the legal right to make trivial decisions for their children, and that they can't open bank accounts for them, enroll them in school, obtain school files or travel with them without written permission from their fathers.
2010 American Charged with Funding Terrorist Activities
2010: An American businessman has been sentenced to ten years in prison for trying to send money to an Afghan militant training camp. Abdul Alishtari had admitted charges of financing terrorism at an earlier hearing in New York. A United States District Judge has said that he was facilitating the transfer of $152,500, believing that it would be used in Afghanistan and Pakistan to train terrorists, and understood that these funds would be used to purchase equipment needed at a terrorist training camp. The man with whom he was working to transfer the money was actually an undercover law enforcement officer.
2011 India Helicopter Crash Kills Seventeen
2011: Seventeen people died as the result of a helicopter crash in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The helicopter carrying twenty-three people caught on fire as it approached the city of Tawang. The exact cause of the crash was unknown but officials suspected the sixteen year old helicopter had technical problems.
2012 India Tests Agni-V Long-Range Missile
2012: India successfully launched a the Agni-V long-range intercontinental ballistic missile. The missile would be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and had a range of more than 3,100 miles. While India has denied the claim, several analysts have argued that the goal of the test was to deter China.
2013 Boston Lock-down and Boston Marathon Bomb Suspects
2013: The Boston Lock-down started with The shelter-in-place requests for several Boston-area neighborhoods in and around the Watertown area early Friday morning and extended to the entire city around 8 a.m. ET. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev runs over his brother Tamerlan dragging him a short distance down the street. Tsarnaev's cause of death was "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities, blunt trauma to head and torso," and "shot by police then run over and dragged by motor vehicle." Police trap and capture the other brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The trial began in federal court in Boston on March 4, 2015 and On May 15, 2015, a verdict was reached sentencing Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection. He is currently held in ADX Florence Federal Supermax prison (Colorado) on death row.
2013 Japan Oldest Man Celebrates Birthday
2013: The world's oldest man Jiroemon Kimura, from Japan, celebrated his 116th birthday. Kimura was believed to be the last living person to have lived across three different centuries.
2013 Actress Reese Witherspoon Arrested
2013: Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia for disorderly conduct after her husband was pulled over on suspicion of driving while drunk.
2014 Bahrain Car Explosion Kills Two
2014: Two people have died and a third passenger was injured after the car that they were traveling exploded. Investigators were unclear as to whether the car had been targeted by an attack or if those in the car had been planning an attack of their own.
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