April 19

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April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). There are 256 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1529 - At the Diet of Speyer a group of rulers (German: F�rst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protested the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms. This movement was later called Protestantism.
1539 - The Treaty of Frankfurt is signed.
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz Harbor.
1770 - Captain James Cook first spots Australia.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord - British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts. The American Revolutionary War begins.
1809 - Battle of Raszyn happenned between armies of Austria (attackers) and Duchy of Warsaw (defenders) as a part of struggles of the Fifth Coalition (1809). Austrian army was defeated.
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 establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
1861 - American Civil War: 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 is declared a saint.
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.
1928 - The final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces that the United States will be leaving the gold standard.
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
1938 - RCA-NBC begins regular television broadcasts.
1943 - World War II: German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 - Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
1960 - The students in South Korea made a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, which eventually made him to resign.
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure.
1964 - The Ford Mustang is introduced to the general public.
1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
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.
1978 - Lagumot Harris is elected President of Nauru.
1987 - The Simpsons make their first appearance on television, on The Tracey Ullman Show, in the short episode called "Good Night".
1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1989 - Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger" is raped.
1993 - The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex outside Waco, Texas ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168.
1999 - The German Parliament returns to Berlin.
2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes nearby Davao airport killing 131.

Births

1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1721 - Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
1772 - David Ricardo, economist (d. 1823)
1883 - Richard von Mises, mathematician (d. 1953)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer (d. 1983)
1897 - Constance Talmadge, actress (d. 1973)
1900 - Richard Hughes, novelist (d. 1976)
1903 - Eliot Ness (d. 1957)
1912 - Glenn Seaborg (d. 1999)
1928 - Alexis Korner, rock musician (d. 1984)
1930 - Dick Sargent, actor (d. 1994)
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (d. 1967)
1933 - Dickie Bird, cricket umpire
1935 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1942 - Frank Elstner, television producer
1944 - Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (originally with P Funk)
1946 - Tim Curry, actor
1949 - Paloma Picasso, painter
1952 - Alexis Arguello, boxer
1953 - Ruby Wax, television personality
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., automobile racer, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
1964 - Paolo Martinotti, genio incompreso, estroso personaggio
1965 - Suge Knight, record producer
1967 - Steven H Silver, science fiction editor
1968 - Ashley Judd, actress
1970 - Kelly Holmes, Olympian,double gold medalist
1979 - Kate Hudson, actress (Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)
1981 - Hayden Christensen, actor
1987 - Maria Sharapova, tennis player

Deaths

1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1632 - Sigismund, king of Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (b. 1561)
1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, author, poet (b. 1788)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, biologist, author (b. 1809)
1906 - Pierre Curie, physicist (b. 1859)
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, pragmatic semiologist (b. 1839)
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)
1958 - Robert Bentley, humorist, actor
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, former Bundeskanzler of West Germany (b. 1876)
1971 - Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)
1974 - Ayub Khan, former President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
1975 - Percy L. Julian, chemist (b. 1899)
1987 - Maxwell Taylor, general (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, author (b. 1907)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, comedian, actor (b. 1917)
1993 - David Koresh, cult leader (b. 1959)
1998 - Octavio Paz, writer, diplomat (b. 1914)

Holidays and observances

Patriots' Day (Massachusetts)
Declaration of Independence Day (Venezuela)
Republic Day (Sierra Leone)
Landing of the 33 (Uruguay)
Primrose Day (England) - primroses are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death (1881). Primroses were his favourite flower.
The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends. (Roman Empire)
Bicycle Day