Today is Saturday, April 19, on 109, 2025. 256 days are left in the year.
Today in history:
On April 19, 1995, Timothy Mcveight, who sought to attack the government that blamed the deaths of the Davidian branch two years before, destroyed the federal building Alfred P. Murrah in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Mcveight was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in 2001.)
Also on this date:
In 1775, the American revolutionary war began with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the beginning of an eight -year armed conflict between American settlers and the British army.
In 1897, Boston’s first marathon was a hero. The winner John J. McDermott ran the course in 2 hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds.
In 1943, World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, a brave uprising but ultimately useless instance against Nazis forces.
In 1977, the Supreme Court, in Ingraham v. Wright, ruling 5-4 that the equally severe buttocks of schoolchildren by the members of the Faculty did not violate the prohibition of the eighth amendment against the cruel and unusual punishment.
In 1989, 47 sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the training exercises of the USS Iowa in the Caribbean.
In 1993, the siege of 51 days in the Davidian branch complex near Waco, Texas, ended when the Davidians set fire to their complex after an FBI tear gas attack. Seventy -five people, including 25 children and sect leaders, David Koresh, were killed.
In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected Pope in the first conclave of the new millennium; He took the name of Benedict XVI.
In 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Joh-Hahr ‘Tsahr-Neeye’-EHV), a 19-year-old university student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings, was tasks in custody after a custody that had left the city virtually paralyzed. His older brother and his alleged accomplice, Tamerlan, 26 (Tam’-Ehr-Luhn), were previously killed in a furious attempt to escape the police.
In 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25 -year -old black man, died after suffering a spinal cord injury at the back of a Baltimore police while he was handcuffed and chained. (Six police officers were accused. Three were acquired and the main prosecutor of the city anyway left the remaining three cases).
Today’s birthday:
- Singer and composer Roberto Carlos is 84 years old.
- Actor Tim Curry is 79.
- The Member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame to Unser Jr. has 63.
- Actor Ashley Judd is 57 years old.
- The Latin pop singer, Luis Miguel, is 55 years old.
- Actor James Franco is 47 years old.
- Actor Kate Hudson is 46 years old.
- The actor Hayden Christensen is 44.
- The soccer hall, Troy Polamalu is 44 years old.
- The actor-comedian Ali Wong is 43.
- The member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Joe Mauer, is 42 years old.
- The former WNBA star, Candace Parker, is 39 years old.
- Former tennis player Maria Sharapova is 38 years old.
- Actor Simu Liu has 36.
