death and taxes - not my favorite month

April 1 1934 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two highway patrolmen near
Grapeville, TX
April 1 2002 - Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the only
nation in the world to do so.
April 2 1982 - Falklands War
April 3 1968 - MLK, Jr delivers "I've been to the mountaintop" speech
April 3 1997 - Thalit massacre beings in Algeria
April 4 1968 - Martin Luther King Junior Assassinated
April 6 1917 - U.S. Declares war on Germany
April 7 1967 - Six-Day War begins
April 7 1994 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda
April 8 2006 - Shedden massacre - Ontario, Canada
April 9 1989 - April 9 Tragedy Tbilis, Gerogia
April 10 1865 - Robert E. Lee addresses troops for last time
April 11 1996 - Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech
April 11 1965 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965
(fifty one tornado's / 256 deaths)
April 12 1861 - American Civil War begins.
April 13 1943 - Mass grave of Polish POW's found, executed by Soviets
April 14 1865 - Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
April 15 1912 - RMS Titanic Sinks
April 16 2007 - Virginia Tech massacre
April 17 2007 - Tax day
April 18 1906 - San Fransisco Earthquake
April 18 2007 - Baghdad - 4 bombings in Baghdad kill 178
April 18 2007 - 3 Slain at Bible Distributor in Turkey
April 19 1993 - Waco - Branch Davidian Compound burns
April 19 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing
April 20 1889 - Adolf Hitler's birthday
April 20 1999 - Columbine High School massacre
April 26 1986 - Chernobyl
April 27 1865 - Sultana steamboat explodes and sinks (1,700 dead)
most were Union POW survivors of Andersonville Prison
April 28 1996 - Tasmania massacre, Austrailia, Martin Bryant goes on
shooting spree killing 35 people and injuring 37
April 29 1992 - Los Angeles Riot
April 30 1945 - Adolf Hitler dies (which is a good thing)
April 30 1975 - Vietnam War - Fall of Saigon