On this day, (April 19) in 1985, 200 ATF and FBI agents laid siege to the compound of The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas on this day for weapons violations and terrorist acts.
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was a survivalist anti-government militia which advocated Christian Identity and was active during the 1970s and early 1980s.
On this day in 1993, a 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ended when a fire broke out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
On this day in 1995 the Oklahoma City bombing occurred. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, was bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
The Oklahoma City bombing was perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who timed the attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the fire that ended the siege in Waco.
Some believe that there is also a connection with the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1985 siege of the The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord as well. In fact, Richard Snell, a member of the CSA, was executed on the same day as the OKC Bombing.
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