Today in History: April 19, federal building bombed in Oklahoma City
In the modern day is Saturday April the th day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On April Timothy McVeigh seeking to strike at the governing body he blamed for the Branch Davidian deaths two years earlier destroyed the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing people McVeigh was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in Also on this date In the American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord the start of an eight-year armed conflict between American colonists and the British Army Related Articles FSU shooting casualties include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting transgender Americans Judge says detained Tufts participant must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont NASA s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid Lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students In the first Boston Marathon was held Winner John J McDermott ran the curriculum in hours minutes and seconds In during World War II tens of thousands of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but ultimately futile uprising against Nazi forces In the Supreme Court in Ingraham v Wright ruled - that even severe spanking of schoolchildren by faculty members did not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and remarkable punishment In sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa during training exercises in the Caribbean In the -day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco Texas ended as the Davidians set fire to their compound following an FBI tear gas attack Seventy-five people including children and sect leader David Koresh were killed In Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected pope in the first conclave of the new millennium he took the name Benedict XVI In Dzhokhar Tsarnaev joh-HAHR tsahr-NEYE -ehv a -year-old college apprentice sought in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody after a manhunt that had left the city virtually paralyzed His older brother and alleged accomplice -year-old Tamerlan TAM -ehr-luhn was killed earlier in a furious attempt to escape police In Freddie Gray a -year-old Black man died a week after suffering a spinal cord injury in the back of a Baltimore police van while he was handcuffed and shackled Six police officers were charged Three were acquitted and the city s top prosecutor eventually dropped the three remaining cases In the current era s Birthdays Singer-songwriter Roberto Carlos is Actor Tim Curry is Motorsports Hall of Famer Al Unser Jr is Actor Ashley Judd is Latin pop singer Luis Miguel is Actor James Franco is Actor Kate Hudson is Actor Hayden Christensen is Football Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu is Actor-comedian Ali Wong is Baseball Hall of Famer Joe Mauer is Former WNBA star Candace Parker is Former tennis performer Maria Sharapova is Actor Simu Liu is
