Light up 3 good ones for Tania Payne, Richard Saylor and Wayne
"CigarSki" Sikorski, who have birthdays, today.
Elsewhere in history:
Apr 19 1910
Halley's comet reappears, last seen in 1835. The Earth passes safely
through the comet's tail with no perceptible effect, not counting the
death of Mark Twain.
Apr 19 1943
During an early-morning operation to exterminate the residents of the
Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi troops experience heavy casualties and are forced to
retreat before nightfall. Jewish resistance fighters, armed with rifles
and molotov cocktails, manage to kill or wound at least 200. The battle
will rage on for another three weeks.
Apr 19 1956
UK Frogman disappeared bugging underside of Khruschev's warship in
Portsmouth (1956)
Apr 19 1989
47 crewmen aboard the battleship USS Iowa are killed when a gun turret
explodes during a training exercise in the Atlantic. Navy investigators
later rule out all accidental causes, and conclude that someone manning
the gun, "most probably" one Clayton Hartwig, had sabotaged its
operation as a suicide attempt. The Navy ignored the fact that the
propellant bags were 44 years old and proven to be chemically unstable.
Apr 19 1993
More than 80 Branch Davidians burn to death in Waco, Texas as the FBI
stages a disastrous final assault on their compound. This brings a
sudden end to the 51-day siege.
Apr 19 1995
Timothy McVeigh kills 168 Oklahomans when his truck bomb detonates in
front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.
Apr 19 1995
Singer Bobby Brown is arrested at Disneyworld for beating a man and
tearing off his ear. Neil Kelly, the man with the reattached ear, later
sues Brown for $6.6 million but eventually settles out of court for an
undisclosed sum.
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