Yom HaAtzmaut 2013 began in the evening of
Monday, April 15
and ended in the evening of
Tuesday, April 16
No one is claiming credit.
Muslim groups often rush to claim they did it.
Leads me to believe it’s some Occupy group.
Mazel Tov!
The timing is very suggestive - I, too, have been wondering about this.
There’s a long list of past events somebody might be protesting on April 15. Here’s a very partial list.
• 769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
• 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years’ War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
• 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
• 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
• 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
• 1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
• 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
• 1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
• 1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
• 1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of theAfrican-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
• 1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
• 1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
• 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People’s Republic of China.