The Ides of April

April 19, 2013 – Entire Boston & Cambridge area on lockdown

April 17, 2013 – West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion

April 15, 2013 – Boston Marathon Bombings

April 20, 2010 – Deepwater Horizon explodes

April 16, 2007 – Virginia Tech Massacre

April 19, 1995 – Oklahoma City Bombing

April 20, 1999 – Columbine High School Shooting

April 19, 1993 – Branch Davidian fire Waco, Texas

April 13, 1992 – Chicago floods

April 15, 1989 –  Tiananmen Square protests

April 18, 1983 – US embassy in Beirut was bombed

April 4, 1968 – Assassination of Martin Luther King

April 16, 1947 – Texas City Disaster

April 14, 1912 – Sinking of the Titanic

April 15, 1865 – Assassination of President Lincoln