Almanac for April 7th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 7th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-7-Lady-Sings-the-Blues-I3I11DE96A

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Bummer April 7th

April 7, 1498: King Charles VIII of France, age 27, dies of head trauma after accidentally striking his head against the lintel of a door.

This 16th-century depiction of Charles VIII by an unknown artist is in the public domain.

April 7, 1994: Members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front militia begin the massacre of Tutsi civilians, a minority group, in Kigali, Rwanda. The killing will continue for about 100 days, until the 15th of July. Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana is among those killed.

April 7, 2021: Phillip Matthew Adams, who retired from the U.S. National Football League (NFL) in 2016, arrives at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, home of Robert and Barbara Lesslie. Robert is a physician. Adams shoots and kills six people at the home: Robert and Barbara, their 5- and 9-year-old grandchildren Noah and Adah, and two air conditioning technicians working at the house, James Lewis and Robert Shook. Adams then barricades himself inside the home, leading to a standoff with police. When police enter the home on April 8th, they find that Adams has taken his own life.

On autopsy, Adams, who was 32 years old and had no prior criminal record, is found to have amphetamines and kratom in his system. He also has pathology consisted with a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition associated with concussion and other football-related head injuries. Although it can only be diagnosed at autopsy, CTE is associated with mood and behavioral changes including increased aggression.

Almanac for April 6th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 6th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-6-Black-Francis-U7U11D6Y6G

Bummer April 6th

April 6, 1968: A gas leak combined with gunpowder stored inside a sporting goods store cause a double explosion in Richmond, Indiana. The explosions kill 41 people and injure 150 more. The youngest person to die in the explosions is eight years old.

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Almanac for April 5th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 5th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-5-The-Year-Without-a-Summer-D1D41D6XP7

Today's Observance: Easter

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Bummer April 5th

April 5, 1815: Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa (in present-day Indonesia) begins erupting. Over the coming weeks, the volcano will expel so much material into the atmosphere that it will cause a temporary global cooling effect. 1816 is referred to as “the year without a summer” due to the weather effects of the eruption. More than 70,000 people are thought to have died as a result of famines and other results of these climate disruptions.

April 5, 1902: The collapse of a stand during a football (soccer) match at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, causes the death of 25 spectators. Ibrox Park, with its name by then changed to Ibrox Stadium, will see another disaster in 1971; see January 2.

April 5, 1923: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the financier of the expedition that discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun, dies of sepsis he contracted after a mosquito bite he’d re-opened by cutting it while shaving becomes infected.

April 5, 1948: Montana State University student James Peterson, taking part in a senior honor society prank that involves breaking into the campus physical plant, is accidentally shot and killed by a security guard who only intends to fire a warning shot at the students.

April 5, 2010: A methane gas explosion in the Upper Big Branch South Mine near Montcoal, West Virginia, kills 29 people. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor cited the mine’s operator, Massey Energy, for 515 safety violations. Its CEO is convicted of conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards and sentenced to one year in prison.

Almanac for April 4th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 4th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-4-Nineteen-Eighty-Four-P5P11D6X42

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Ancient Egyptian goddess Ma'at

Bummer April 4th

April 4, 1841: The 9th U.S. president, William Henry Harrison, dies in office of what was thought at the time to be pneumonia. He has been inaugurated as president only a month earlier. Harrison is the first U.S. president to die in office.

April 4, 1865: During the American Civil War, Union troops set fire to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Only four buildings survive. Among those destroyed is the university’s 7,000-volume library. The Confederacy surrenders only five days later.

April 4, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. (Note: This also happened to be the day American poet Maya Angelou turned 40.)

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Almanac for April 3rd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 3rd: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-3-Rachel-Bloom-Crushes-On-Ray-Bradbury-N4N31D6W4D

Artist Birthday: Washington Irving

Bozeman (MT) Courier, December 4, 1925

Bummer April 3rd

April 3, 1936: Bruno Hauptmann is executed by electric chair at Trenton State Prison in New Jersey for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son Charles (“Charlie”) Lindbergh, Jr.

April 3, 1974: The outbreak of more than 100 tornados in 13 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada, kills more than 300 people.

April 3, 1996: The FBI arrests Ted Kaczynski, the former UC Berkeley mathematics professor accused and later convicted of being the University and Airport Bomber, or UNABomber, who killed three people with bombs between 1978 and 1995. He'd almost blown up American Airlines Flight 444 on November 15, 1979, but fortunately the bomb malfunctioned and passengers suffered smoke inhalation injuries, but survived.

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The Accomac, VA, Peninsula Enterprise, April 3, 1926

Almanac for April 2nd

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Today's Observance: Passover

Beatles Trivia
April 2, 1974: Barbra Streisand wins an Oscar for her song “The Way We Were,” beating out Paul McCartney’s James Bond theme “Live and Let Die.”

Bummer April 2nd 

April 2, 1932: 61-year-old retired rodeo performer Bill Pickett dies, never having recovered from a coma he entered after being kicked in the head by a bronco.

April 2, 1979: Military researchers in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia) accidently release spores of Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that cause anthrax, from the laboratory thanks to a defect in the ventilation system. At least 66 Russians die as a result.

April 2, 2021: Washington D.C. Capitol Police Officer William Evans is killed and his fellow officer is wounded when a man deliberately rams his car into a barrier outside the U.S. Capitol building. The 25-year-old assailant was known by his family to have had a number of mental health challenges. 

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Almanac for April 1st

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 1st: https://ko-fi.com/post/1st-of-April-April-Fools-Day-Q5Q51D6TEJ

Poem: "April" by Linda Pastan

Today's Observance: April Fool's Day, Passover begins at sundown

• Intermountain Jewish News (Denver, CO), February 11, 1926

Bummer April 1st

April 1, 1958: Takarazuka Revue performer Katsuki Hiromi is killed when her clothes catch on the stage lift on which she is riding. According to the website Takarazuka Forever: “She was wearing an underskirt with a metal band about the waist and when her costume became stuck there was no way to free herself. Her feet were dragged into the moving mechanism and the metal band cut into her torso, killing her. Following her death the lifts had safety guards installed, the speed at which they were dropped and raised was slowed, and all metal costume parts were removed and replaced with bamboo.”

April 1, 1984: Motown singer Marvin Gaye, age 44, is shot to death by his father inside his parents’ home in Los Angeles. 

April 1, 2017: A group of middle school children gather for a birthday party at Quality Inn & Suites in Niles, Michigan. They use the hotel’s indoor swimming pool. When hotel staff peer into the swimming pool area a short time later, they notice some of the children lying unconscious on the pool deck. A pool heater has malfunctioned, causing the 12- to 14-year-olds to be poisoned with carbon monoxide. Sadly, 13-year-old Bryan Douglas Watts cannot be revived and is declared dead on arrive at a local hospital. The other 14 poisoned children are treated and released from the hospital. 

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