On this date in 1775, 1993, 1995

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[FNU LNU]

On this date in:

1775 - American Revolution Begins

1993 - FBI at Waco

1995 - OKC Bombing

1925 - Hugh O'Brian Born

1937 - Elinor Donahue Born

[FNU LNU]

Has been an especially eventful day.

[Verginius Rufus]

It’s also Roger Sherman’s birthday—Signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution of the United States. Among his descendants have been 3 US Senators and the late Archibald Cox.

[HokieMom]

U.S. Secret Service‏Verified account @SecretService 27m27 minutes ago

Secret Service Remembers Fallen Colleagues on the 22nd Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing http://bit.ly/2oV1rUn

[HokieMom]

Appomattox CH NHP‏Verified account @AppomattoxNPS 39m39 minutes ago

#OTD in 1865, funeral services are held for President Abraham Lincoln in the East Room of the @WhiteHouse. #NPS #CivilWar

[HokieMom]

FBI‏Verified account @FBI 13m13 minutes ago

22 yrs ago #OTD in 1995, 168 ppl were killed in bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/oklahoma-city-bombing …"

[HokieMom]

Erick Erickson Retweeted Daniel Hannan‏Verified account @DanielJHannan 2h2 hours ago

#OTD 1775, shots were fired at Lexington in what was to become the Second Anglosphere Civil War. https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Invented-Freedom-Why-Matters/dp/1781857547 …

[T-Bone Texan]

I will never forget the slaughter of innocent children at Waco, nor will I forgive.

God willing, there will be justice in my lifetime.

Many gov’t employees deserve the death penalty for their part in that atrocity.

Wesley Clarke, for instance, but also a whole lot more.

[fredhead]

1989 - The USS Iowa turret explosion occurred in the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) on 19 April 1989. The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret’s crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret itself.

[COBOL2Java]

1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

[Zionist Conspirator]

You forgot 1985, the beginning of the siege of the CSA compound in Missouri.

[bus man]

1915 -- The Japanese battle cruiser Haruna is commissioned. The ship would later be upgraded and re-rated as a fast battleship, and she would fight in almost every major battle of World War II in the Pacific.