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ON THE APPROACHING EVENTFUL CYCLE AROUND APRIL 19
Posted April 15
Every year about this time, I get nervous, as there have been so many tragic events that have taken place between April 15th and the 21st. It happens as the transiting Sun in the U.S. chart I follow; that is for the signing of the Articles of Confederation, which happened on
It is interesting that it started out, way back when our country was not even born yet. That is, the Battles of Lexington and Concord which were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington and Concord. 
This was the first outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
In moving forward, and ironically, on that same date, April
As the regiment transferred between stations, a mob of secessionists and Southern sympathizers attacked the train cars and blocked the route. When it became apparent that they could travel by horse no further, the troops got out of the cars and marched in formation through the city. However, the mob followed the soldiers, breaking store windows and causing damage until they finally blocked the soldiers. 
The mob began throwing paving stones and bricks at the troops. Panicked by the situation, several soldiers fired into the mob, and chaos immediately ensued as a giant brawl began between the soldiers, the violent mob, and the Baltimore police. In the end, the soldiers got to the Camden Station, and the police were able to block the crowd from them. The regiment had left behind much of their equipment, including their marching band's instruments. Four soldiers {Corporal Sumner Needham of Co I; Privates; Charles Taylor; and Addison Whitney of Co D} and twelve civilians were killed in the riot. Sumner Henry Needham is considered to be the first Union casualty of the war.
Fast forward again to 1906, and the famous San Francisco Earthquake, which started with the terrifying rumble which shattered the early morning silence of April 18. The quake lasted only a minute but caused the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. Modern analysis estimates it registered 8.25 on the Richter scale. At almost precisely
The greatest destruction came from the fires the quake ignited. These ravaged the city for three days before burning themselves out. The maelstrom destroyed 490 city blocks, a total of 25,000 buildings, made over 250,000 homeless and killed between 450 and 700. Damage estimates topped $350,000,000.
On 18 April 1942 Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle and his squadron launched the first air raid by the United States which struck the Japanese home island of Honshū during World War II. The mission was notable since it was the only time in 
The Doolittle Raid demonstrated that the Japanese home islands were vulnerable to Allied air attack, and it provided an expedient means for U.S. retaliation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. All 16 aircraft involved were lost on the mission, and 11 crewmen were 
either killed or captured. The crews of 13 aircraft, however, were recovered and returned to the
On the morning of April 15, 1961, what is known as The Bay of Pigs, began, as three flights of B-26B Invader light bomber aircraft displaying Cuban Fuerza Armada Revolucionaria (FAR — Revolutionary Armed Force) markings bombed and strafed the Cuban airfields of San Antonio de Los Baños, Antonio Maceo International Airport, and the airfield at Ciudad Libertad.
Operation Puma, the code name given to the offensive counter air attacks against the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, called for 48 hours of air strikes across the island to effectively eliminate the Cuban air force, ensuring Brigade 2506 complete air superiority over the island prior to the actual landing at the Bay of Pigs. 
This failed because the air strikes were not continued as was originally planned. So by April 21st, the whole thing was over, with the whole fiasco being an embarrassment for the 
On April 19, 
Fire destroyed the compound, and seventy-six people, including 21 children and two pregnant women, along with Davidian leader Vernon Wayne Howell, better known as David Koresh, died in the fire. This has come to be known as the Waco Siege or the Waco Massacre.
The next terrible April 19th event took place in 1995 with the terrorist attack aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on
On 
Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. 
It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech massacre occurred; the school shooting which was comprised of two separate attacks about two hours apart on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. 
The perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many more before committing suicide, making it the deadliest school shooting in 
The incident received international media coverage and drew criticism of
The incident prompted immediate changes in
So now that we are getting close to this period this year, what might we expect? It is interesting that near the 1906 earthquake date, scientists are watching some underground rumblings in
And as we get closer to the date of the 
Nearly a dozen large charter buses loaded with women and children left with police escorts followed by reporters and photographers in their own vehicles. Some of the children waved at reporters as they were driven away.
The Desert News reported Sunday that the women and children being housed in the historic fort were complaining that illness was sweeping through the group and that there was no privacy.
"We have been more sick than usual. We don't like what they're doing," one woman at the shelter said. She did not want her name used because she was using her cell phone and feared losing it.
"There's tension in the air, that's for sure."
Another 170 children are being housed nearby at the Wells Fargo Pavilion, which is near the coliseum. There are 139 women, who are mothers or other close relatives of the children, living in the same conditions and taking care of them.
"Right now we are focusing on the actions by the Department of Child and Family Services who are seeking protection of the children," said Judge Barbara Walther of the
So hopefully this will be a smooth operation without anything getting out of hand!
Also there were two bogus school threats made yesterday (the 14th), so hopefully during this cycle there will not be another incident of that kind!
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