This Week In History
April 19 - In 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and sentenced to death.
April 20 - In 1999, two young men stormed into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, with guns and explosives, killing 13 and wounding dozens more in what was at the time the nation’s deadliest school shooting.
April 21 - In 1965, the New York World's Fair opened for its second and final season.
April 22 - In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
April 23 - In 1914, the first baseball game was played at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
April 24 - In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
