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1 day ago · v. t. e. The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in U.S. history before the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it ...
5 days ago · Battle of the Bilge. 6 minutes. Published June 2022. By Brian Ted Jones | 6 min read. "Sovereign Oklahoma’s army— thirty-two boys all under twenty-one years and armed with heavy rifles—stood today Horatio-like on one end of a toll bridge spanning the Red River and defied ‘all of Texas’ to attack,” reported the El Reno Daily Tribune ...
- Brian Ted Jones
4 days ago · The American Legion and University of Oklahoma partnered in 1939 to create a Boys' State event, where boys from all regions of the state would come together on the OU Norman campus and become more knowledgeable about the democratic processes so much so that some would campaign to win public office within their make-believe cities and state.
1 day ago · In the early months of the American Revolution, the first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. It comprised the 22,000 militia troops then besieging Boston and an additional 5,000 militiamen in New York. It was placed under the control of a five-member civilian ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · Delaware National Guard Medal - Awarded to any member of the DENG who has been called to federal mobilization by the President of the United States. [6] Delaware National Defense Service Ribbon - Awarded to all members serving honorably in the DENG during the period 1 AUG 1990 to 31 AUG 1991, dates inclusive and 11 SEP 2001 to a date to be ...
2 days ago · The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians between February 28 and April 19, 1993.
3 days ago · By 1775 many towns in Massachusetts had recruited from among their militia elite companies of "minute men" ready to march at a moment's warning. The militia who fought on April 19, 1775, came from all walks of life and included about 20 "patriots of color." Public Reaction.
