Extensive study and investigation of historical records dating back over 500 years of written history highlights a strange and troublingly high number of violent incidents which occurred on April 19th.
On an April 19 in the 1980’s Ronald Reagan reported that you can’t change the system, it ends up changing you.
April 19 in History:
2013 - Boston Lock-down and Boston Marathon Bomb Suspects 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.
Suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombings are identified as Kyrgyzstan-born Muslims Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, age 19, and his 28-year old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev
1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.
1994 - A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King for violation of his civil rights.
1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire. They used Methylene Chloride as a solvent to atomize CS particulate and release it into the Davidian Compound. Methylene Chloride is highly toxic. It is highly caustic, it strips paint and emits significant amounts of noxious vapors.
1989 - The battleship USS Iowa‘s number 2 turret explodes. 47 sailors were killed.
1989 - Central Park Attack on Jogger On the 19th approximately 30 teenage perpetrators committed several attacks, assaults, and robberies in the northernmost part of New York City's Central Park. Around the same time an attack on Trisha Meili occurred, who was jogging on her own on her usual path in Central Park shortly before 9 pm. She was raped and beaten almost to death, at 1:30 AM she was found naked, gagged, and tied up, covered in mud and blood. Five juveniles (called the "Central Park 5") were interviewed for hours about the crime and intimidated into confessions. Since no DNA evidence tied the suspects to the crime, the prosecution's case rested almost entirely on the confessions. They were all found guilty but the convictions were overturned in 2002 after Matias Reyes, a convicted rapist and murderer, confessed to the crime and was linked to it with DNA evidence. The city was forced to pay out $41 million in damages.
1987 - U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1985 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1983 - France performs nuclear test
1973 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1972 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Militant black students at Cornell Univ. use force to take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program, after a deal was reached with the administration the news showed students leaving the hall carrying rifles although they were never used.
1969 - Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall
1961 - Cuba Bay of Pigs April 17th 1,500 CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles invaded southern Cuba at the "Bay of Pigs" by the 19th 118 were killed and 1,202 are captured by Cuban forces. President Kennedy inherited the operation from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and approved the operation but it has to be one of the worst planned and executed covert invasions in modern times poorly thought out, as Cuban and Soviet Forces knew almost to the day where and when the operation would occur.
1947 - French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1945 - U.S. offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
1945 - U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1943 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poland) began on April 19
1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days. Nazi Panzer division ended by burning the resistance out at the standoff
1939 - Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years.
1938 - General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1934 - Herbert Hoover violated Posse Comitias utilizing tanks, guns, and troops to run the protesters out the “Bonus protesters”. Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, George S. Patton were involved.
Bonus Army 17,000 veterans, 26,000 others on the first day 2 dead; 1,017 injured. The Army used 500 infantry men, 500 cavalry, 6 Renault FT tanks, 800 policemen.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard.
1928 - The combined nationalist Northern Armies under Chiang continue drive onto Peking as part of the Civil war continuing in China.
1928 - China Civil War
1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
1874 - Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1861 - U.S. President Lincoln ordered a blockade of Confederate ports.
1861 - The Baltimore riots resulted in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed.
1782 - The Netherlands recognized the new United States.
1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA. British moved to take the people’s muskets and cannons at Lexington. The American Revolution begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. British regulars are chased back into Boston and besieged. “The shot heard round the world” ignites a full-scale revolt in the America’s 13 colonies.
1775 - American Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1770 - Captain James Cook discovered New South Wales, Australia. Cook originally named the land Point Hicks.
1764 - The English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money.
1689 - Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros.
1587 - On this day in history sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
