On April 20th in U S Political History
Part IV
On April 20th in 1990 Former junk bond financier Michael Milken agreed to plead guilty to six felonies and pay $600 million in penalties to settle the largest securities fraud case in history.
On April 20th in 1991 US Marines landed in northern Iraq to begin building the first center for Kurdish refugees on Iraqi territory. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the US commander of Operation Desert Storm, left Saudi Arabia for home.
On April 20th in 1993 President Clinton said he accepted responsibility for the decision to try to end the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas, yet laid "ultimate responsibility" on David Koresh for the deaths that resulted.
On April 20th in 1995 In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI announced it was looking for two men suspected of renting the truck used to carry the explosive; rescue teams suspended the search for survivors so that the remaining structure of the Alfred P. Murrah Building could be shored up.
On April 20th in 1999 In Littleton, Colo., 2 Columbine High School students, students Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17), used guns and explosives to randomly kill 12 other students and one teacher before killing themselves: Cassie Bernall, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough, Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez and teacher William "Dave" Sanders, were killed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They wounded 28 other students and were part of a small clique that identified themselves as the "Trench Coat Mafia." 30 homemade bombs attributed to Harris and Klebold were found at the school. Harris and Klebold had both worked at the Blackjack Pizza No. 2025. Klebold and Harris recorded 5 videos prior to the shooting in which they spoke of a bloodbath with hundreds killed. In 2001 it was reported that Daniel Rohrbough was shot and killed by police. An independent investigation in 2002 cleared the police. In 2004 it was reported that local police had 15 contacts with Harris and Klebold prior to the massacre.
(WSJ, 4/21/99, A1)(WSJ, 6/23/99, p.A1))(WSJ, 2/27/04, p.A1)
On April 20th in 2004 Authorities in southern Italy reported that they had seized about 7,500 Kalashnikov assault rifles and other combat-grade firearms from a Turkish-flagged ship headed for New York. The weapons were destined for a company in the U.S. state of Georgia.
(AP, 4/20/04)
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