{"id":183,"date":"2006-04-19T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=183"},"modified":"2006-04-20T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T15:36:08","slug":"35-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/04\/19\/35-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"3.5 decades&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how long I&#8217;ve been around as of 7am this morning.  To celebrate my 35th year on earth I&#8217;ve decided to highlight some of the other significant historical events that occured on this date (courtesy of Wikipedia).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1775 &#8211; American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord \u2013 British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists&#8217; firearms. Captain John Parker orders his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the &#8220;shot heard round the world.&#8221; The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"World War II\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a>: In <a title=\"Poland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poland\">Poland<\/a>, <a title=\"Germany\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\">German<\/a> troops enter the <a title=\"Warsaw ghetto\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warsaw_ghetto\">Warsaw ghetto<\/a> to round up the remaining <a title=\"Jew\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jew\">Jews<\/a>, beginning the <a title=\"Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising\">Warsaw Ghetto Uprising<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Bay of Pigs\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bay_of_Pigs\">Bay of Pigs<\/a> invasion of <a title=\"Cuba\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\">Cuba<\/a> ends in failure.<\/li>\n<li>The 50-day siege of the <a title=\"Branch Davidian\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Branch_Davidian\">Branch Davidian<\/a> building outside <a title=\"Waco, Texas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waco%2C_Texas\">Waco, Texas<\/a>, <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">USA<\/a>, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Oklahoma City bombing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma_City_bombing\">Oklahoma City bombing<\/a>: The <a title=\"Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building\">Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building<\/a> in <a title=\"Oklahoma City, Oklahoma\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma_City%2C_Oklahoma\">Oklahoma City<\/a>, <a title=\"Oklahoma\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\">Oklahoma<\/a>, <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">USA<\/a>, is bombed, killing 168.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of this is as important as the fact that on this day in 1971 I was born on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dela.state.va.us\/dela\/MemBios.nsf\/cff68439169bde2385256c23006d3f88\/c85eb04061bf21a785256db2006683b7?OpenDocument\">my grandfather&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong>birthday.\u00a0 He would have been 100 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how long I&#8217;ve been around as of 7am this morning. To celebrate my 35th year on earth I&#8217;ve decided to highlight some of the other significant historical events that occured on this date (courtesy of Wikipedia). 1775 &#8211; American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord \u2013 British General Thomas Gage attempts to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/04\/19\/35-decades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3.5 decades&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"That&#039;s how long I&#039;ve been around as of 7am this morning. 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