April Showers Bring Tragedy

It seems odd that it should be this way, but the month of April appears to be the most deadly month throughout history. Even more so in 2007.

Take a look at April today and years gone by...

• The American Revolution (Started with Paul Revere's Ride: April 18-19 April 1775)
• The American Civil War (Started April, 1861, ended April 1865, thus "Across Five Aprils")
• The Bosnian War began in the first days of April, 1992
• The Rwandan Genocide began in April, 1994
• The Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915

Other events that have occurred in the month of April include:

• Two deadliest volcanic eruptions in world history: Tambora, Indonesia and Unsen, Japan (April 5, 1815) and (April 1, 1793)
• President Abraham Lincoln's assassination (April 14, 1865)
• The Frank Slide (April 29, 1903)
• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 18, 1906)
• The sinking of the RMS Titanic (April 14-15 April 1912)
• The Armenian Genocide (April 24, 1915)
• The Deir Yassin Massacre in Palestine (April 9,1948)
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination (April 4, 1968)
• Adolf Hitler was born and died on April 20th and April 30th, respectively.
• Jumbo Tornado Outbreak (April 3-4, 1974)
• Woo Bum-Kon spree killing (April 26-27, 1982)
• Chernobyl nuclear accident (April 26, 1986)
• The 1992 Los Angeles Riots after the Rodney King verdict (April 29, 1992)
• The bloody end to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas (April 19, 1993)
• Kurt Cobain commits suicide (April 5, 1994)
• The Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)
• In Lebanon, at least 106 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre). (April 18, 1996)
• The Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia (April 28, 1996)
• The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado (April 20, 1999)
• The 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in Blacksburg, Virginia (April 16, 2007).
• A man with a hand gun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center before killing a male hostage and himself. (April 20, 2007)
• Blue Angels plane crashes into a neighborhood during South Carolina air show, killing the pilot and setting homes on fire

What wil we continue to add to the list in the next 9 days......?