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1986: German rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth travels to Mill Point, West Virginia to attend the dedication of the new National Alliance and Cosmotheist Church headquarters, which took place the next day, April 20, with William Pierce, Hans Schmidt, Kevin Alfred Strom, and other National Alliance supporters in attendance. (He is pictured here, center, with Wernher von Braun and other NASA figures with whom he worked.)
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1993: The 51-day FBI siege (over a few allegedly unregistered firearms) of the Branch Davidian church community in Waco, Texas ends when an attack, ostensibly using tear gas, by FBI agents results in a massive fire. Seventy-six church members trapped inside, including 20 children and two pregnant women, are killed.
