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Purveyor

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Wed Apr 17, 2013, 11:41 AM Apr 2013

Mid-April Linked With National Tragedy

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The deadly attacks in Boston Monday left a city and a nation searching for answers. But it has also drawn attention to an odd historical phenomenon that happens around this time of April.

April 15 will be forever linked with the horrific bombings in Boston during the Boston Marathon. At least three people were killed and another 144 were injured during the bombings. April 16, 2007 was the date of the Virginia Tech University massacre where Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and faculty to death and injured 23 others before committing suicide.

April 17 is linked in many South Floridian’s minds with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. The goal of the Bay of Pigs was to take over Cuba and get rid of Fidel Castro. The invasion, financed and trained by the CIA, ended up in disaster for the United States and drove the wedge even deeper with Cuba.

On April 18, 1983, a terrorist attack by a suicide bomber destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 63 people. In the U.S., April 18, 2012 also marked the end of a legendary era when Dick Clark passed away.

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Mid-April Linked With National Tragedy (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2013 OP
20 april 1999--columbine school massacre. 20 april 1914-ludlow massacre, 15 april 1912-titanic niyad Apr 2013 #1

niyad

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1. 20 april 1999--columbine school massacre. 20 april 1914-ludlow massacre, 15 april 1912-titanic
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 12:17 PM
Apr 2013

sorry, dick clark dying is NOT a 'tragedy".

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