Is the next big date April 19th???

04/17/04 | tomocius

[tomocius]

It has been brought to my attention that April 19th had been the most notorious day in recent US history before 09/11/01. So I checked. What has happened on April 19th in US history?

1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building

1993 51 day siege of the Branch Davidians ended in Waco, Texas

1933 America leaves the gold standard

1783 The American Revolution ended.

1775 The American Revolution began.

[mhking]

I bet you protect your dog, too.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Richard Kimball]

Personally, I think we should consider the numbers 12, 19, 32, and 58, as they are all ages Frank Sinatra's been.

[RedWing9]

Are terrorist that methodical???

Not unless you help them...

[Deguello]

"March 17th 1836 - Texas abolishes slavery"???

Juneteenth wasn't until June of 1865. Must have had some sorta mix up before 1865.

[Born Conservative]

You positively REEK of troll.

I think you're right; it's account is banned/suspended.

[Cronos]

9/11 was chosen because those flights on that day of the week had a low passenger count,

I can understand that they reviewed the weather conditions but how did they know that the flights would have a low passenger count?

[EllaMinnow]

April 20th...

Columbine
Hitler's birthday
My sister's birthday

I think there are more April 20 events. It seems my sister's birthday dinners are always accompanied by bad breaking news on TV.

[4x4x4]

In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, each one of these monuments is 19 feet high. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and three make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19 -- when you have a nine you have a womb that is pregnant. And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded.

[IGOTMINE]

I claim the kill!

His comment about the Reagan White House and astrology was a DEAD giveaway.

[Sender]

Are you saying that the whole 9/11 operation and its complex, coordinated attack somehow just waited for a clear day and low pax count, then all of the hijackers contacted each other to buy whatever seats were available at the last minute? That doesn't sound likely.

I think they planned it long in advance for a specific day, then if some problem such as weather did come up at the last moment, they would have called it off and started planning for another target date. But 9/11 was chosen specifically, I'd bet on it. They put some significance on that date in their odd way of thinking. Whether its a date in history, a numeric formula from the Quran, or just that we would be calling 911, they never do anything without a bunch of mysterious hoopla.

[Not A Snowbird]

And on my birthday, September 8:

1760 The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British.
1845 A French column surrenders at Sidi Brahim in the Algerian War.
1906 Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage.
1925 Germany is admitted into the League of Nations. Joseph Avenol, secretary-general of the League of Nations, sold out the organization he had sworn to uphold.
1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is shot to death in the state capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
1944 Germany's V-2 offensive against England begins.On the ground during Hitler's V-weapon offensive.
1945 Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.For more than two years, Hiroshi Miyamura's Medal of Honor was a tightly guarded secret.
1951 Japanese representatives sign a peace treaty in San Francisco.It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender.
1955 The United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand sign the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover.
1972 Arab terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.

I should go hide under the bed now.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

March 17th of any recent year - a significant portion of the American population gets drunk.

[4mycountry]

Not his dog... just his teddy bear.

[sadimgnik]

If John HK is right (and I have no opinion either way) then it would be because, as he said in his post, "flights _on that day of the week_ had a low passenger count" (my emphasis).

Itn wouldn't be hard to find out that Tuesdays (or whatever) were low-passenger days on those flights.

I know that Tuesday and Wednesday are 'discount days' on Australian airlines, because there are far fewer passengers on those days than on Friday-Monday.

Regards

Sadim

[sadimgnik]

if some problem such as weather did come up at the last moment, they would have called it off and started planning for another target date. But 9/11 was chosen specifically

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Unless, of course, September 11 WAS the fallback date.

We will never know why they chose Sept 11.

My son and I had flown 2000km that day (for my uncle's funeral), but I doubt that had any connection.

All I know is that we got off the plane around 7PM (local time), and the attacks took place about 4 hours later... which was quite disturbing, I might tell you.

Sadim

[Sapper26]

I'd say the next big date will be April 15. Every year millions of Americans are terrorized by a radical group called the IRS.

[Sender]

Wow, so you missed being in the air during 9/11 by only a few hours? Quite disturbing indeed.