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Thursday, April 22, 2004

April is the Cruellest Month

Sunday 4/18, Monday 4/19, and Tuesday 4/20 are, to a degree, a demi-week of days that will live in infamy.
CBS Newspath featured video for all of these "days in history":

--98 years ago Sunday 4/18/04, San Francisco was rocked by the Great (Earth)Quake of 1906, killing 3,000 and making 225,000 homeless. Not a national story, no, but worthy of note.

--11 years ago Monday 4/19/04, Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh and followers died in a fire at Waco, TX. Then-US Attorney General Janet Reno will never forget.

--9 years ago Monday 4/19/04 was the Oklahoma City bombings. 168 people killed in the attack.

--And 5 years ago Tuesday 4/20/04 was the Columbine High School shootings. Teens Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold eventually took their own lives after killing 12 classmates and a teacher at the school in a Denver suburb. 20 other students hurt.

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