Posted on 04/19/2017 6:02:15 AM PDT by 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
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.
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
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
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
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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
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.
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.
1987 The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
You forgot 1985, the beginning of the siege of the CSA compound in Missouri.
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