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Edited on Mon Apr-11-11 12:40 PM by El Supremo
April 12 1861 - The Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1945 - FDR died.
April 13 1970 - Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.
April 14 1865 - President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth. 1912 - The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began to sink.
April 15 1861 - President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
April 16 1947 - America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas.
April 17 1961 - About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the southwestern coast of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
April 18 1906 - A major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.
April 19 1775 - The American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord. 1993 - A 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended when fire destroyed the structure after federal agents smashed their way in. Dozens of people, including sect leader David Koresh, were killed. 1995 - A truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.
April 20 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
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