4/20

Editor's note: we originally published this little eye-opener on this date a year ago. However, we feel its republishing might serve as a good refresher.



Too many bizarre associations (burnout ones aside) with April the 20th exist. Some are epic, and some tragic. However, stars seem always to align to etch 4/20 (and often 4/19) into our brains.

Significant events occurring on 4/19 and 4/20, in no particular chronology, include:

-The school shooting at Columbine (4/20)

-The Oklahoma City bombing (4/19)

-Adolf Hitler's birthday (4/20)

-The Battles of Lexington and Concord that would begin the American Revolutionary War (4/19)

-David Koresh's compound in Waco, Texas bursts into flame, killing all inside (4/19)

-Bay of Pigs invasion fails (4/20)

-Benedict XVI elected pope (4/19)

-A killer rabbit attacks then-president Jimmy Carter in his fishing boat (4/20)

- Prophet Mohammed's birthday (4/20, but date disputed)

-Charles Darwin dies (4/19)