As we try to move past the Virginia Tech tragedy, this week is also the anniversary of another tragic event in American history. The Oklahoma City Bombing was 12 years ago today. And tomorrow is the eight year anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. In fact, April seems to be historically prone to tragic events.

Here is a list of wars that began in April:

• The American Revolution (Paul Revere's Ride: 04/18/1775)
  
• The American Civil War (04/1861)
  
• The Bosnian War (04/1992)
  
• The Rwandan Genocide (04/1994)
  
• The Armenian Genocide (04/24/1914)

Other tragic events in April include:

• President Abraham Lincoln's assassination (04/14/1865)
• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake 04/18/1906)
  
• The sinking of the RMS Titanic (04/14/1912)
  
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination (04/04/1968)
  
• Chernobyl nuclear accident (04/26/1986)
  
• The 1992 Los Angeles Riots after the Rodney King verdict (04/29/1992)
• The bloody end to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas (04/19/1993)
  
• Qana Massacre in Lebanon (04/18/1996)
  
• The Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia (04/28/1996)

I'm sure I missed a few (such as Hitler's birthday). The first politician to propose that we eliminate April from the calendars, and just go straight from March to May, gets my vote.