Be on the Lookout! This Day in History

A lot of interesting things happen around this time of year. Today was when the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired during the battles of Lexington and Concord, kicking off the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Which is why I found it particularly disconcerting when they locked down the entire city of Boston on this day in 2013. Everyone was terrified of one 19 year old kid named Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I imagine the founding fathers would have been spinning in their graves, if their souls hadn't moved on and found something better to do.

Here are a few more tidbits from "Today in History" by the Associated Press:

"In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but ultimately futile battle against Nazi forces."

"In 1989, 47 sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa in the Caribbean. (The Navy initially suspected that a dead crew member had deliberately sparked the blast, but later said there was no proof of that.)"

"In 1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; about 80 people, including two dozen children and sect leader David Koresh, were killed."

"On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people."

There are a number of noteworthy things that took place on this day, as well as April 20 (Hitler's birthday): including the Columbine massacre (1999) and the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon explosion (2010). You might want to watch out for what might happen today, as it is a Tuesday which is traditionally ruled by Mars (the god of war).