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{{PAGENAME}} is the 109th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (110th in
leap years). There are 256 days remaining.
Events
*
1012 - Martyrdom of St
Alphege in
Greenwich, London.
*
1529 - At the
Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (''German:''
Fürst) and independent cities (''German:''
Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the
Edict of Worms, beginning the
Protestantism Protestant movement.
*
1587 - Sir
Francis Drake sinks the
Spain Spanish fleet in
Cádiz harbor.
*
1692 -
Salem witch trials Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
*
1713 - With no living male
heirs, Emperor
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the
Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 Pragmatic Sanction to ensure that
Habsburg lands and the
Habsburg Monarchy Austrian throne would be
Inheritance inherited by his daughter,
Maria Theresa of Austria Maria Theresa.
*
1775 -
American Revolutionary War: The
Battle of Lexington and Concord –
Great Britain British General
Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate
United States American 13 colonies colonists' firearms. Captain
John Parker (Captain) John Parker orders his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the "
shot heard round the world." The British are driven back to
Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the
American Revolutionary War.
*
1809 - The army of
Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of the
Duchy of Warsaw in the
Battle of Raszyn (1809) Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the
Fifth Coalition.
*
1810 -
Venezuela achieves home rule:
Emparan, Governor of the
Captaincy General is removed by the people of
Caracas and a
Junta is installed.
*
1839 - The
Treaty of London, 1839 Treaty of London establishes
Belgium as a kingdom.
*
1861 -
American Civil War:
Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-
Secession mob in
Baltimore, Maryland, attacks
United States Army troops marching through the city.
*
1892 -
Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first
automobile in the
United States, in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
*
1904 - Much of
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, is destroyed by fire.
*
1909 -
Joan of Arc receives
beatification.
*
1919 - Leslie Irvin of the
United States makes the first successful
parachute jump and
free-fall.
*
1927 -
Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for
obscenity for her play ''
Sex (play) Sex''.
*
1928 - The 125th and final
fascicle of the ''
Oxford English Dictionary'' is published.
*
1933 - President
Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the
United States will be abandoning the
gold standard.
*
1934 -
Shirley Temple debuts in ''
Stand Up and Cheer''.
*
1936 - First day of the
Great Uprising in
British mandate of Palestine Palestine.
*
1938 -
RCA–
NBC begins regular
television broadcasts.
*
1943 -
World War II: In
Poland,
Germany German troops enter the
Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining
Jews, beginning the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
*
1943 - ''
Bicycle Day'' –
Switzerland Swiss chemist Dr.
Albert Hofmann deliberately takes
LSD for the first time.
*
1950 -
Argentina becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires Convention Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
*
1951 - General
Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
*
1956 - Actress
Grace Kelly marries
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco Rainier III of Monaco.
*
1960 - Students in
South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president
Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
*
1961 - The
Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba ends in failure.
*
1971 -
Sierra Leone becomes a
republic, and
Siaka Stevens the
List of Presidents of Sierra Leone president.
*
1971 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in
Washington, DC.
*
1971 -
Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the
Sharon Tate murders.
*
1971 - Launch of
Salyut 1, first human-made
space station.
*
1976 -
Executive Order 9066 is rescinded
*
1978 -
Lagumot Harris is elected
President of
Nauru.
*
1980 - In
The Hague,
Netherlands,
Johnny Logan (singer) Johnny Logan wins the twenty-fifth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Ireland singing "What's Another Year".
*
1989 - A
gun turret explodes on the
USS Iowa (BB-61) USS ''Iowa'', killing 47 sailors.
*
1989 -
Trisha Meili, the "
Central Park Jogger" is raped.
*
1993 - The 50-day siege of the
Branch Davidian building outside
Waco, Texas,
United States USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
*
1995 -
Oklahoma City bombing: The
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma,
United States USA, is bombed, killing 168.
*
1999 - The
Germany German Bundestag returns to
Berlin.
*
2000 - An
Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near
Davao International Airport, killing 131.
*
2005 - Joseph Ratzinger elected
Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the
Papal conclave, 2005 Papal conclave.
Births
*
1320 - King
Peter I of Portugal (d.
1367)
*
1452 - King
Ferdinand II of Aragon (d.
1504)
*
1603 -
Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d.
1685)
*
1658 -
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d.
1716)
*
1665 -
Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d.
1721)
*
1686 -
Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d.
1750)
*
1721 -
Thomas McKean, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d.
1817)
* 1721 -
Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d.
1793)
*
1785 -
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d.
1858)
*
1793 - Emperor
Ferdinand I of Austria (d.
1875)
*
1832 -
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1916)
*
1874 -
Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d.
1952)
*
1882 -
Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d.
1954)
*
1883 -
Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d.
1953)
*
1892 -
Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d.
1983)
*
1897 -
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d.
1970)
* 1897 -
Constance Talmadge, American actress (d.
1973)
*
1899 -
George O'Brien, American actor (d.
1985)
*
1900 -
Richard Hughes (writer) Richard Hughes, English novelist (d.
1976)
*
1903 -
Eliot Ness, American lawman (d.
1957)
*
1912 -
Glenn Seaborg, American chemist,
Nobel Prize for Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1999)
*
1919 -
Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographher
*
1922 -
Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d.
1993)
*
1925 -
Hugh O'Brian, American actor
*
1928 -
Alexis Korner, English musician (d.
1984)
*
1930 -
Dick Sargent, American actor (d.
1994)
*
1931 -
Walter Stewart (journalist) Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d.
2004)
*
1933 -
Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
* 1933 -
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d.
1967)
*
1935 -
Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d.
2002)
*
1936 -
Wilfried Martens,
Prime Minister of Belgium
*
1937 -
Elinor Donahue, American actress
* 1937 -
Joseph Estrada, actor and
President of the Philippines
*
1940 -
Genya Ravan, American vocalist (
Goldie & the Gingerbreads,
Ten Wheel Drive)
*
1944 -
James Heckman, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Bank of Sweden Prize
* 1944 -
Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (
P Funk)
*
1946 -
Tim Curry, British actor
*
1947 -
Murray Perahia, American pianist
*
1948 -
Rick Miller (baseball player) Rick Miller, American baseball player
*
1952 -
Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer
*
1953 -
Ruby Wax, British television personality
*
1960 -
Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
* 1960 -
Frank Viola, baseball player
*
1962 -
Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
*
1965 -
Suge Knight, American record producer
*
1967 -
Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
* 1967 -
Greg Ferrara, Independent Filmmaker, writer
* 1967 -
Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
*
1968 -
Mswati III,
King of Swaziland
* 1968 -
Ashley Judd, American actress
*
1970 -
Kelly Holmes, English athlete
* 1970 -
Luis Miguel, Puerto Rican singer
*
1972 -
Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
*
1975 -
Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
* 1975 -
Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer(Goalkeeper)
*
1977 -
Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
*
1978 -
James Franco, American actor
* 1978 -
Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
*
1979 -
Kate Hudson, American actress
*
1981 -
Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
* 1981 -
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
*
1987 -
Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
* 1987 -
Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
Deaths
*
1012 -
Alphege,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
954)
*
1054 -
Pope Leo IX (b.
1002)
*
1390 - King
Robert II of Scotland (b.
1316)
*
1560 -
Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b.
1497)
*
1578 -
Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b.
1530)
*
1588 -
Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
*
1608 -
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b.
1536)
*
1627 -
John Beaumont, English poet (b.
1583)
*
1629 -
Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
*
1632 - King
Sigismund I of Sweden (b.
1561)
*
1686 -
Antonio de SolÃs y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b.
1610)
*
1689 - Queen
Christina of Sweden (b.
1626)
*
1733 -
Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of
William III of England
*
1751 -
Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b.
1678)
*
1768 -
Canaletto, Italian artist (b.
1697)
*
1791 -
Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b.
1723)
*
1813 -
Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b.
1745)
*
1824 -
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b.
1788)
*
1854 -
Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b.
1774)
*
1881 -
Benjamin Disraeli,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1804)
*
1882 -
Charles Darwin, English biologist (b.
1809)
*
1906 -
Pierre Curie, French physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1859)
*
1914 -
Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b.
1839)
*
1916 -
Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b.
1839)
*
1926 -
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b.
1874)
*
1930 -
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b.
1827)
*
1937 -
William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b.
1856)
*
1949 -
Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b.
1877)
*
1950 -
Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b.
1886)
*
1967 -
Konrad Adenauer,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1876)
*
1971 -
Russ Hodges, American sports broadcaster (b.
1910)
* 1971 -
Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b.
1895)
*
1973 -
Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist
*
1974 -
Ayub Khan,
President of Pakistan (b.
1907)
*
1975 -
Percy Julian Percy L. Julian, American chemist (b.
1899)
*
1987 -
Hugh Brannum, American actor (b.
1910)
* 1987 -
Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b.
1901)
*
1989 -
Daphne du Maurier, English author (b.
1907)
*
1992 -
Frankie Howerd, English comedian and actor (b.
1917)
*
1993 -
David Koresh, American cult leader (b.
1959)
*
1998 -
Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1914)
*
1999 -
David Sanes, US Navy employee whose death led to Navy's withdrawal from Puerto Rico
*
2002 -
Layne Staley, American musician (b.
1967)
*
2004 -
Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the ''Guinness Book of Records'' (b.
1925)
* 2004 -
John Maynard Smith, English bioligist (b.
1920)
*
2005 -
Ruth Hussey, American actress (b.
1911)
* 2005 -
Bryan Ottoson, American musician (b.
1978)
* 2005 -
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b.
1946)
Holidays and observances
*
Patriots Day (
Massachusetts,
Maine, and
Wisconsin,
United States USA)
*Declaration of Independence Day (
Venezuela)
*Republic Day (
Sierra Leone)
*Landing of the 33 (
Uruguay)
*
Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Saint Emma
**
George of Antioch
**
Ursmar
**
Expeditus
*
Primrose Day (
England) –
Primula vulgaris primroses are placed on the statue of
Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square,
London on the anniversary of his death (
1881).
*The Roman holiday of
Cerealia ends. (
Roman Empire)
*
Bicycle Day
*
Easter Sunday 1908,
1981,
1987,
1992. In the
Gregorian Calendar Easter Sunday falls on
19 April more often than on any other date.
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
Today in History: April 19
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April 18 -
April 20 -
March 19 -
May 19 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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