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Little-Acorn
04-19-2009, 12:42 PM
April 19, 1775
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.

April 19, 1897
The first Boston Marathon was run.

April 19, 1933
The United States went off the gold standard.

April 19, 1943
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.

April 19, 1993
The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound, shooting inflammable tear gas into the buildings. The resulting fire killed over 80 people.

April 19, 1995
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.

Noir
04-19-2009, 02:05 PM
April 19, 1990 - I was born!

Seems the 19th April is quite an important day in human history ;)

Jeff
04-19-2009, 02:16 PM
April 19, 1990 - I was born!

Seems the 19th April is quite an important day in human history ;)

Happy Birthday Noir

Kathianne
04-19-2009, 02:18 PM
Indeed! Happy Birthday! :beer:

Mr. P
04-19-2009, 05:51 PM
Happy Birthday, Kid!

Just curious, you seem like an intelligent young man, what are your plans/dreams for your future life?

Noir
04-20-2009, 05:40 PM
Happy Birthday, Kid!

Just curious, you seem like an intelligent young man, what are your plans/dreams for your future life?


Cheers all,

At the moment trying to get to univesity, exams start in three weeks,hoping to go on and study law and politics. Afterwards I wish to go on and work within British politics at either a local or national level(most prob local level.

Also as a side note, revision has taken up allot of my time recently, so I have not been able to post much at all, but I will be back on properly around summer time.