by Matilda Cruz | Apr 20, 2024 | History
The Ludlow Massacre, which occurred in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, is remembered as one of the deadliest episodes of labor conflict in American history. Men, women and children were killed as guardsmen fought strikers in Ludlow, marking a turning point in...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 19, 2024 | History
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a massive explosion tore through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. A truck bomb, parked outside by Timothy McVeigh, detonated with devastating force, killing 168 people, including 19 children at a daycare...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 18, 2024 | History
On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. bombers took off from an aircraft carrier in the Pacific on a nearly impossible mission. Led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, these bombers launched the first U.S. air raid on Japan just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor....
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 17, 2024 | History
Game of Thrones made its HBO debut on April 17, 2011, with the premiere episode ‘Winter Is Coming.’ Based on A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, the television series transported audiences into Westeros’s cruel political society centered...
by Matilda Cruz | Apr 16, 2024 | History
On the morning of April 16, 2007, students at Virginia Tech entered their classrooms to begin the day, unaware that their campus would soon become the site of the most fatal U.S. school shooting in history. That morning, the West Ambler Johnston dormitory came under...
