OK - so give me the dates of these events:

[hedgehog]

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing

Centennial Olympic Park bombing


The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

[Toucano]

1. Why?

As is often snidely told to me, "google is your friend".

[Marrah_G]

2. April 19th

The original Patriots day and the anniversary of Waco.

No clue on the Olympic Park date.

The church bombing was years before my birth.

[tazkcmo]

3. ok

April 19, 1995
July 27, 1996
September 15, 1963

[misanthrope]

4. Do you want the number of fatalities as well?**nm

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[hedgehog]

6. The OP is meant to comment on the different attitudes we bring to different crimes.

Some crimes fade from memory while we are urged to "Never Forget" others.

[misanthrope]

7. As I said...**nm

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[Toucano]

8. The magnitude of those events was totally different. The date of 9/11 became memorialized

because there was no other way to completely and succinctly describe the events.

The OK City bombing is still remembered in OKC, but I'm not sure about the others.


On edit:

Without looking it up, I happen to know that Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7th and the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th.

[tazkcmo]

9. I understand this

And we would have the dates burned into our memories if the crimes had been named after the dates as is the case with the WTC bombings.

Edited to add: Also, none of the others in OP sparked an invasion of another country. Is that why so many people remember Pearl Harbor's date? I think, yes.

[AkFemDem]

10. Are you serious? There is quite the difference in magnitude and global scope there.

[tazkcmo]

5. You're turn

What's your favorite Uncle's B-day? What's your Grandma's favorite color? What ddoes any of this have to do with any thing?