tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post5053738399280996129..comments2023-11-05T01:54:07.412-07:00Comments on Aftermath 2022 Blog: Inauspicious April DatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-66217855815781910792014-09-02T16:05:20.082-07:002014-09-02T16:05:20.082-07:00On April 20, 1964, Boulder District Court Judge Wi...On April 20, 1964, Boulder District Court Judge William Buck declared that Colorado laws banning marijuana use were unconstitutional. The stunned Colorado Supreme Court overruled Buck and reinstated the law the following yearNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-26972104837152561562014-09-02T15:52:06.910-07:002014-09-02T15:52:06.910-07:00April 24, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh. An 8-story bu...April 24, 2013 - Dhaka, Bangladesh. An 8-story building containing a garment factory collapsed, killing 1,129, in the worst industrial accident ever to occur in Bangladesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapseNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-48432590392515386072013-04-07T22:26:54.194-07:002013-04-07T22:26:54.194-07:00April 5, 2010 - Upper Big Branch Mine disaster oc...April 5, 2010 - Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. Twenty-nine out of thirty-one miners at the site were killed.<br />April 10, 1963 - USS Thresher submarine disaster. This was the deadliest submarine disaster in US history, and 129 men died during deep-dive testing off of Cape Cod.<br />April 4, 1933. USS Akron crashes in the ocean. This was the world's worst airship disaster, in which 73 of the 76 passenger and crew on board perished. <br />April 1989 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989. This was on the list of people on the Clinton Body Count and I haven't been able to independently verify it.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-65561209068275413242013-04-07T20:49:09.697-07:002013-04-07T20:49:09.697-07:00April 4, 1991 - Sen. John Heinz dies when his plan...April 4, 1991 - Sen. John Heinz dies when his plane collided with a helicopter over Merion, PA. His widow, Teresa Heinz, later marries John Kerry, 2004 presidential candidate.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-2178624135685199642013-04-05T20:11:17.968-07:002013-04-05T20:11:17.968-07:00April 28, 1953 - Hooker Chemical sells the Love Ca...April 28, 1953 - Hooker Chemical sells the Love Canal dump to the Niagara Falls City School District with a contract that mentioned toxic wasted and disclaimed any liability.<br />April 27, 1978 - Willow Island disaster. A cooling tower for a power plant under construction in Willow Island, West Virginia collapsed, killing 51 construction workers. <br />April 18, 2007 - Qinghe Special Steel Corporation (China) disaster. A ladle holding molten steel separated from the overhead iron rail, fell, tipped, and killed 32 workers, injuring another 6.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-73394165053489109062013-04-05T20:10:49.493-07:002013-04-05T20:10:49.493-07:0011 April 2001. The Ellis Park Stadium disaster wa...11 April 2001. The Ellis Park Stadium disaster was the worst sporting accident in South African history. 43 people were crushed to death.<br />April 20, 2012 - Pakistani jet flying near the Islamabad airport carrying 127 people, crashes with no survivorsNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-55810248747661526602013-04-05T19:32:09.244-07:002013-04-05T19:32:09.244-07:00April 26, 1942 - Benxihu Colliery (China) mining d...April 26, 1942 - Benxihu Colliery (China) mining disaster. 1,549 miners lost their lives in the worst mining disaster of all time.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-86345104612192772182013-04-05T19:15:31.763-07:002013-04-05T19:15:31.763-07:00April 18, 1955 - Albert Einstein dies
April 21, 19...April 18, 1955 - Albert Einstein dies<br />April 21, 1946 - John Maynard Keynes dies<br />April 21, 2012 - Charles Colson, Nixon adviser, dies <br />April 18, 1587 - John Foxe, who wrote Foxe's book of martyrs, dies<br />Apri 18, 1874 - David Livingstone, adventurer, dies and is buried in Westminster Abbey<br />April 17, 1790 - Benjamin Franklin dies<br />April 16, 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville dies<br />April 23, 1616 - Miguel Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, dies on the same day as Shakespeare. Another source says that he died on April 22.<br />April 23, 1860 - William Wordsworth, American poet, dies<br />April 15, 1889 - Father Damien, who ministered to people with leprousy on the island of Molokai, dies<br />April 15, 1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, the richest man in the world at that time, dies when the Titanic sunk<br />April 15, 1980 - Jean-Paul Sarte, existenialist, dies <br />April 15, 1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and holocaust survivor, dies<br />April 15, 1990 - Greta Garbo, American Actress, dies at the age of 84<br />April 15, 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, diesNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-49795123763405054482013-04-05T18:12:29.230-07:002013-04-05T18:12:29.230-07:00April 13, 1953 - the Central Intelligence Agency d...April 13, 1953 - the Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorized the MK-ULTRA project.<br />Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-34214346007644337922013-04-05T18:09:30.830-07:002013-04-05T18:09:30.830-07:00April 28, 1996 - The Port Arthur massacre of 28 Ap...April 28, 1996 - The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 23 wounded, mainly at the historic Port Arthur prison colony, a popular tourist site in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-55091762188354450472013-04-05T18:04:24.938-07:002013-04-05T18:04:24.938-07:00April 13 (April 2 o.s.), 1743 - Thomas Jefferson b...April 13 (April 2 o.s.), 1743 - Thomas Jefferson born<br />April 28, 1758 - James Monroe born<br />April 23, 1791 - James Buchanan born<br />April 27, 1822 - Ulysses S Grant born<br />April 15, 1783 - Congress ratifies the peace treaty signed in November 1782<br />April 19, 1783 - Gen. Washington informs his troops that hostilities have ended, exactly 8 years after they beganNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-77922606527981254472013-04-05T17:50:46.404-07:002013-04-05T17:50:46.404-07:00April 22, 1980 - Military coup in Liberia. A numb...April 22, 1980 - Military coup in Liberia. A number of former officials are publicly executed.<br />April 22, 1993 - Holocaust Museum opens in Washington DC<br />April 22, 2005 - Zacarias Moussaoui ( a French citizen of Moroccan descent ) pleads guilty to conspiring with other al-Qaeda members as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-80505908088640233432013-04-05T17:36:50.331-07:002013-04-05T17:36:50.331-07:00April 21, 1930 - A fire at Ohio State Penitentiary...April 21, 1930 - A fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320 inmates, and many burn to death when they are not unlocked from their cells. <br />April 21, 1967 - A series of 17 tornadoes strike Illinois, including several in Chicago, killing more than 50<br />April 21, 1992 - California resumes executions after a 25 year hiatus, gassing Robert Alton Harris<br />April 21, 2012 - Train crash in the Netherlands injures 117Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-29684131801698770962013-04-05T17:25:08.219-07:002013-04-05T17:25:08.219-07:00April 15, 1912 - Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Ko...April 15, 1912 - Kim Il-Sung, dictator of North Korea, bornNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-29118240675040010862013-04-01T21:57:18.856-07:002013-04-01T21:57:18.856-07:00April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E Lee surrenders at Ap...April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Courthouse<br />April 19, 1969 - Militant black students at Cornell Univ. use force to take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program<br />April 19, 1987 - First episode of The Simpson's airs<br />April 19, 2011 - Seventeen people died as the result of a helicopter crash in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.<br />April 20, 1871 - "Third Force Act" passed. Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). <br />April 20, 1971 - Supreme Court issues Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, upholding the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.<br />April 20, 1975 - President Thieu of Vietnam resigns in protest over lack of US support<br />April 20, 2005 - New Bankruptcy Law in US passes, making it more difficult to declare bankruptcy.<br />April 20, 2008 - Pope Benedict visits Ground Zero<br />April 21, 2011 - Japan declares it illegal to enter evacuation zone around Fukushima<br />April 20, 2012 - Mt. Popocatépetl erupts in MexicoNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-80208603120248490432013-04-01T21:29:16.631-07:002013-04-01T21:29:16.631-07:00April 4, 1841 - William Henry Harrison died of pne...April 4, 1841 - William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia only 1 month after inaguration, the first victim of Tecumseh's curse<br />April 12, 1945 - Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhageNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-62264050608362612952013-04-01T21:18:22.404-07:002013-04-01T21:18:22.404-07:00April 7, 2009 - Gunman opens fire at Korean Christ...April 7, 2009 - Gunman opens fire at Korean Christian retreat center in Temecula, CA, killing 1, injuring 4Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-20525978460727477602013-04-01T21:05:45.967-07:002013-04-01T21:05:45.967-07:00April 26, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot by a Union...April 26, 1865 - John Wilkes Booth shot by a Union soldier.Nathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-40154177476356939002012-09-02T19:16:15.494-07:002012-09-02T19:16:15.494-07:00April 15, 1984 - Christopher Thomas shot 10 people...April 15, 1984 - Christopher Thomas shot 10 people (8 children and 2 women) execution style on Palm Sunday in BrooklynNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-41595758293738316152012-07-20T10:53:28.546-07:002012-07-20T10:53:28.546-07:00April 3, 2009 Binghampton, NY. Shooter kills 14 (...April 3, 2009 Binghampton, NY. Shooter kills 14 (including himself) at immigration centerNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538022923392519713.post-46486621774399775992012-04-06T22:31:14.557-07:002012-04-06T22:31:14.557-07:00April 28, 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty
April 28...April 28, 1789 - Mutiny on the HMS Bounty<br />April 28, 1945 - Benito Mussolini is executedNathan Vanderhoofvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02775031485991583883noreply@blogger.com