hree people were killed and some 140 wounded Monday when a pair of explosions were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Police and federal authorities are still investigating the causes and perpetrators of the Boston Marathon explosions, but the timing of the blasts curiously links up to several other infamous events.
This week marks the anniversaries of the Waco, Texas, siege (April 19, 1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995), the Columbine High School massacre (April 20, 1999), the Virginia Tech shootings (April 17, 2007) and Adolf Hitler’s birth (April 20, 1889). The Boston Marathon explosions also coincided with the Massachusetts holiday Patriots’ Day and Tax Day, the federal income tax deadline.
On April 19, 1995, American domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh and his associates killed 168 people by setting off a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Okla. The Oklahoma City bombing remained the deadliest single act of terrorism in America until the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. And its overlap with the anniversary of Waco, Texas siege is no coincidence.
