Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The April Curse comes back with a vengeance

I started researching the April Curse about 10 years ago and found so many instances that I freaked out and tried to ignore it in hopes I was mistaken or it would go away.  Unfortunately, it is back.

April 15, 2019 - Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is on fire causing extensive damage.

April 17, 2019 - Sol Pais, the 18-year-old Florida woman who FBI officials said was “infatuated with Columbine” and whose presence in Colorado triggered hundreds of schools to close, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound off of a trail at the base of Mount Evans, Clear Creek County Sheriff Rick Albers said. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/17/sol-pais-columbine-woman-dead/

April 20, 2019 - 20th anniversary of the Columbine shooting massacre.

April 16, 2019.  Florida Today writes an article about the April Curse. The cruelest week: These 13 historic tragedies happened during the week of April 15.  The 13 events it mentioned are:
1. The Lincoln Assassination: April 15, 1865
2. The San Francisco Earthquake: April 18, 1906
3. The Sinking of the Titanic: April 15, 1912
4. The Ludlow Massacre: April 20, 1914
5. The Hillsborough Disaster: April 15, 1989
6. The Waco Siege ends: April 19, 1993
7. The Oklahoma City Bombing: April 19, 1995
8. The Columbine High School Massacre: April 20, 1999
9. The Virginia Tech Shooting: April 16, 2007
10. The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: April 20, 2010
11. The Boston Marathon Bombing: April 15, 2013
12. The West Fertilizer Company Explosion: April 17, 2013
13. The Notre Dame Cathedral Fire: April 15, 2019

April 15, 2019.  SF Gate writes an article about the April Curse. The events is mentioned are:
  1. The Donner Party Begins Its Trek - April 14, 1846
  2. Lincoln Assassinated - April 14, 1865
  3. Black Sunday - April 14, 1935 (dust storm in Texas and Oklahoma)
  4. The Black Hawk Incident in Iraq - April 14, 1994 
  5. Titanic Sinks - April 15, 1912 
  6. The Great Mississippi Flood - April 15, 1927
  7. Boston Marathon Bombing - April 15, 2013
  8. Texas City Explosion - April 16, 1947
  9. Virginia Tech Shooting - April 16, 2007
  10. Bay of Pigs Invasion - April 17, 1961
  11. West Plant Explosion in Texas - April 17, 2013
  12. The British Invade - April 18, 1775
  13. San Francisco Earthquake - April 18, 1906
  14. U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut - April 18, 1983
  15. USS Iowa Explosion - April 19, 1989
  16. The Waco Seige - April 19, 1993
  17. The Oklahoma City Bombing - April 19, 1995
  18. The Ludlow Massacre - April 20, 1914
  19. The Columbine School Shooting - April 20, 1999
  20. Deepwater Horizons (BP) Oil Spill - April 20, 2010
It mentions some positive events as well:

  • April 14: The first abolition society is formed (1775); the first commercial movie house opens in New York City (1894); "The Grapes of Wrath" is published (1939); the Human Genome Project is completed (2003). 
  • April 15: The preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified 1783); Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in Major League Baseball (1947); McDonald's opens its first franchised restaurant (1955); the Ford Mustang debuts (1964). 
  • April 16: Boston Garden, America's oldest hockey arena, opens (1910). 
  • April 17: George Lucas begins writing "Star Wars" (1973). 
  • April 18: Paul Revere takes his midnight ride (1775); Yankee Stadium opens in New York (1923). 
  • April 19: Americans earn their first Revolutionary War victory over the British at the Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775); "The Simpsons" premieres on as a cartoon short on "The Tracey Ullman Show" (1987). 
  • April 20: The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law (1871).

Note that the Civil Rights Act of 1871 was passed to fight the Ku Klux Klan.  Oh, don't forget that April 20, 1889 was the birthday of Adolf.

I've written extensively on this in the past and don't care to revisit the subject.  I hope the April Curse is done this year.
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Update: Recent events that may or may not be considered part of the April Curse.
April 21, 2016 - Death of Prince Rogers Nelson
April 19, 2017 - Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, acquitted of a 2012 double murder but serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, is found hanged in his prison cell, and is pronounced dead an hour later.
April 19, 2018 - Miguel Diaz-Canel became president of Cuba.  He was born on April 20, 1960
April 19, 2018 - Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was executed in Alabama for the 1989 letter bomb murder of Robert Vance, a US federal judge.

Update 2:
April 17, 2019 - Alan Garcia, ex-president of Peru, dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound as police were preparing to arrest him.

Update 3:  Maybe other recent events fit this as well.
April 11, 2019 - Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecudorian embassy and arrested.  He hadn't left the embassy since 2012.
April 18, 2019 - Attorney General William Barr releases a heavily redacted version of the Mueller report.
April 21, 2019 - Easter Sunday (varies from year to year)

Update 4:
April 18, 2019 - a man was arrested for bringing gas cans and lighter fluid into St Patrick's Cathedral in NYC.

Update 5:
April 27, 2019 - A 19-year old gunman attacked a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one woman.  He left a manifesto saying that he was called to action by Brenton Tarrant's attack on a mosque on March 15, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand, thus linking it to the April Curse as well.

Update 6:
April 21, 2019 - 3 Christian churches and 3 luxury hotels were attacked by terrorists in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 253 people

Update 7:
April 20, 2019 - SpaceX launches a rocket from Cape Canaveral which exploded after liftoff.

Update 8:
April 20, 1920.  John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice, was born.

Update 9:
April 19, 2015.  Freddie Gray, who was severely injured while in police custody in Baltimore, dies, causing massive protests.

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