April 20, 2009 - 9:03 am
I recently discovered a cool time-waster on the intertubes.
Wikipedia has the most comprehensive “This Day In History” collection that I’ve seen. I was surprised by today’s entry (April 20th).
There were major, commercial plane crashes on April 20th of 1967, ’68, ’78, and ’98. Is it just me, or is that statistically remarkable?!
The other major event from April 20th was the Colombine massacre. Do you remember were you were when you got the news? I was sitting in Computer Algorithms class at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs (less than an hour away from the school). My friend Bryce Webster, the first person I knew who owned a PDA, told me after he had read it on a news feeder.
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