This Day in History, April 19th

1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish Fleet in Cadiz harbor.

1775- The first battle of the American Revolution starts, the battle of Lexington and Concord.

1933- FDR announces that the US will abandon the Gold Standard. Our money has been worthless ever since.

1961- Bay of Pigs invasion ends in failure because Kennedy refuses to commit enough resources to finish it.

1987- The Simpsons make their TV debut on the Tracey Ullman Show.

1993- Janet Reno orders the Branch Davidian compound in Waco to be stormed. The seige ends.

1995- The OKC bombing. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is bombed, killing 168 men, women and children. It is the worse act of terrorism on American soil at that time. 12 years later, we still don't know what really happened, but since Timothy McVeigh is dead, we will never truely know.

2005- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI.


I will post more on the OKC bombing at a later date.