- hvernon wrote:
- Why do all these mass tragedies seem to happen happen in April?
Honestly it's just our confirmation bias at work. We know about a big tragedy in April, so we look for more tragedies that happened in the same month because it makes it all seem more significant than it actually is. Obviously terrible things happen in other months too.
Part of it is also due to the fact that a lot of these killers are copying each other. Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Building two year to the day of Waco on purpose. It's often speculated Eric and Dylan wanted their attack to happen on the 19th as an homage to McVeigh - at the very least they wanted to get it done before school ended. In turn I imagine Robert Steinhauser and Seung-Hui Cho may have chosen April as the date of their attacks as an homage to Eric and Dylan.
But just for morbid fun...
- LPorter101 wrote:
- Other anniversaries this month:
Waco (27 years)
Oklahoma City (25 years)
Erfurt (18 years)
There's also:
April 3rd, marking 11 years since the Binghamton shootings, where Jiverly Wong killed thirteen.
April 4th, marking 52 years since the death of MLK and which kicked off riots in a hundred cities across America.
April 6th, marking 26 years since the start of the Rwandan genocide.
April 12th, marking 159 years since the beginning of the American Civil War.
April 15th, marking 7 years since the Boston Marathon attacks (incidentally terrorist attacks in Iraq killed 75 on the same day)
April 17th, marking 45 years since the start of Khmer Rogue rule in Cambodia, kicking off a genocide that would claim two million lives.
April 18th, marking 114 years since the Great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, which killed over three thousand.
April 26th, marking 34 years since the Chernobyl disaster.
April 29th, marking 28 years since the start of the Rodney King Riots.
April 30th, marking 45 years since the Fall of Saigon, ending the Vietnam War in a humiliating defeat for the United States.