“April is the cruelest month.” - T.S. Elliot
I suggest we resist the temptation to enjoy the beautiful spring weather and wait until this wretched week ends.
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 beings 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)
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