Archive for the ‘Historical’ Category
4/15/2013: two bombs go off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 others
Monday, April 15th, 20194/15/1912: The RMS Titanic sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg, killing 1,517 people.
Monday, April 15th, 2019Black Monday, 4/13/1360: During the Hundred Years’ War, a hail storm kills an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France.
Saturday, April 13th, 2019“a foul day, full of myst and hayle, so that men dyed on horseback [sic].”
It took just half an hour for the storm to kill over 1,000 Englishmen and some 6,000 horses.
The Scottish island of Gruinard (Anthrax Island): The Island of Death.
Friday, April 5th, 2019“….Over the summer of 1942 and 1943, sheep were placed in open pens and then exposed to bombs, dropped from a Vickers Wellington bomber plane, that scattered anthrax spores across the land. The power of anthrax became quickly clear when the sheep started dying after three days with its potential to cause mass destruction summed up in the report of the tests……”