Curse of the "Lunar" Month?

April appears to be a lunar month for lunacy. Wars that started/ended in April include:

• The American Revolution (Started with Paul Revere's Ride: April 18-19 April 1775)

• The American Civil War (Started April, 1861, ended April, 1865, thus "Across Five Aprils")

• The Bosnian War began in the first days of April, 1992

• The Rwandan Genocide began in April, 1994

• The Armenian Genocide began in April 24, 1914

Other events that have occurred in the month of April include:

• President Abraham Lincoln's assassination (April 14, 1865)

• The Frank Slide (April 29, 1903)

• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake (April 18, 1906)

• The sinking of the RMS Titanic (April 14-15 April 1912)

• The Armenian Genocide (April 24, 1915)

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination (April 4, 1968)

• Super Tornado Outbreak (April 3-4, 1974)

• Chernobyl nuclear accident (April 26, 1986)

• The 1992 Los Angeles Riots after the Rodney King verdict (April 29, 1992)

• The bloody end to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas (April 19, 1993)

• The Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)

• In Lebanon, at least 106 Lebanese civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the UN compound at Qana (see Qana Massacre). (April 18, 1996)

• The Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia (April 28, 1996)

• The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado (April 20, 1999)

• The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia (April 16, 2007).

To this list, I'd like to add the following dates:

• April 15 (need I say more? Of course, this year, it's the 17th...and still in April)

• April 10 and April 13: The birthdates of two ex-girlfriends- one of whom is severely bipolar; both of whom are severely afflicted with Bush derangement syndrome, and are unabashedly liberal.

I tried.