The Cruelty of April

A few of the historical tragedies and events with anniversaries this month

“April is the cruelest month.” - T.S. Elliot

These are just a few of the evil, cruel events with anniversaries this month, with most of these happening in the the next week:

• Ponce de Leon lands in Florida (1513)

• Virginia Company lands in modern-day Jamestown (1607)

• Robert E. Lee resigns from the US army to create the Confederate Army (1861)

• The American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter (1861)

• Lincoln is shot (1865)

• The Sultana explosion kills nearly 2,000 union soldiers returning home after being prisoners of war (1865)

• Vladimir Lenin is born (1870)

• Adolf Hitler is born (1889)

• San Francisco Earthquake (1906)

• Titanic Sinks (1912)

• Armenian Genocide begins (1915)

• The United States enters World War I (1917)

• The Gestapo is created (1933)

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies from complications related to polio during his fourth term as President of the United States (1945)

• Bay of Pigs fails (1961)

• Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated (1968)

• Apollo 13 accident (1970)

• LA protests over acquittal of police who w…