today in history
April 19 is usually a bad day in history.1927 - Mae West gets 10 days in jail on obscenity charges for a play called "sex".
1933 - The dollar leaves the gold standard.
1943 - German troops go into the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining jews, starting the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The insurrection, of course, was crushed, by a group led by Jurgen Stroop, who was executed in 1952 in Poland, and the site was later used as a concentraion camp.
1961 - The bay of pigs invasion ends in failure.
1993 - Waco, Texas: after blasting bad music in a failed attempt to drive people crazy, the government drives tanks through David Koresh's cult headquarters, which burns to the ground, killing 81 people. Before killing everybody, the FBI played Nancy Sinatra music, Tibetan chants and the noises made by dying rabbits.
1995 - Oklahoma City: The Edward J. Murrah federal building is bombed, killing 168.
Birthdays:
Eliot Ness
Jayne Mansfield
Tim Curry
Al Unser, Jr.
Kate Hudson
Today in 1882 Charles Darwin died. They buried him next to Isaac Newton because he was a complete fucking genius.
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