APRIL 19
1943:Mordecai Anielewicz, the 23-year-old commander of the ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organization), leads hundreds of Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazi’s attempt to send them to the Treblinka death camp. Despite their heroic resistance, the uprising will be all but over by May 16.
1954: Seven-time Boston Marathon winner Clarence Demar runs his final Boston Marathon at age 65, finishing in 78th place.
1995: A truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, One hundred and sixty-eight people are killed in the bombing, carried out by Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh will be convicted of the bombing and executed on June 11, 2001.
1954: Seven-time Boston Marathon winner Clarence Demar runs his final Boston Marathon at age 65, finishing in 78th place.
1995: A truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, One hundred and sixty-eight people are killed in the bombing, carried out by Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh will be convicted of the bombing and executed on June 11, 2001.
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