1689: Massachusetts Governor Edmond Andros is booted for being an autocratic @sshole.1775: Mob of ruffian farmers on Lexington Green start shooting on Redcoats (who are the army of the country of which the ruffian farmers are citizens, by the way) as the Redcoats are in transit to Concord to arrest some fellows who were plotting against the Government.
1861: Mobs of ruffian city folks riot in Baltimore, attack Union troops on their way to Washington DC. Four union soldiers and nine civilians are killed.
1898: Congress grants President McKinley's request for War with Spain.
1917: The S.S. Magnolia encountered a German U-Boat and fired what is believed to be the first American shots fired in WWI.
1993: The government storms the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Seventy-four religious extremists die in resulting conflagration / mass suicide / murder.
1995: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols explode a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168, including 19 children.
Now, if I were Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I wouldn't get out of bed today...
4 comments:
I'd be more afraid that he was going to fling his boogers at me. Do you think he could have jammed his finger any further up his nose?
i'll have to remember this date.
them americans sound like my kind of people.
HM: Yup, that was some pretty gross stuff there.
Gino: I figured... You'd have liked the 1780s much better, I would think.
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