It was on this day in 1995 that a 168 people were killed when a truck parked outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma exploded. The attackers choose that particular day because of what had happened 1993 on this same date – ATF agents set fire to the Branch Davidian’s compound, ending a 51-day siege but resulting in 81 people dying.
Earliest thing Wiki mentions for this day is “65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and the conspirators were all arrested” and the most recent is “1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.“
A few other events that occurred on this date are:
1776 – Samual Whittemore had a rough day, but ended up pulling through it. This monument pretty much explains what happened.
1943 – Dr. Hofmann takes a long bike ride home from work.
1987 – The Tracey Ullman Show debuts a short cartoon about a family from Springfield.
1989 – 47 sailors aboard the USS Iowa are killed when a gun turrent explodes.
Happy Birthday to Hayden Christensen, Kate Hudson, Valerie Plame Wilson, Tim Curry and Alan Price.