Today in History - April 19

I have to say, that i usually post these "Today in History" as a filler. Often times i don't have time to post a blog about my personal life and i didn't get a chance to scrap!

But today when i looked at Today in History, i must confess, i started not to post!

What a violent day "today" has been.

With the world in shock over the massacre at Virgina Tech, this post proves that violence doesn't just pick one day a year, but may rear its ugly head at any time!

My heart goes out to all that have been affected by the violence in this country!

Time to shed my rose-colored glasses and show you all the violence that has taken place!

1775
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.

1882
Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.

1943
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first

mass rebellions against the Nazis.

1993
The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.

1995
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.

2005
Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.

Birth name
Joseph Alois Ratzinger
Papacy began
April 19, 2005
Papacy ended
Incumbent
Predecessor
John Paul II
Successor
Incumbent
Born
April 16, 1927 (age 80)Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany