Wikipedia: April 19

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.

Events

1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London
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.
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
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 the first regular television broadcasts
1943 - World War II: German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1946 - The League of Nations dissolves itself transferring its powers to the United Nations.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco
1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure
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.
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 († 1367)
1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence († 1793)
1721 - Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence († 1817)
1772 - David Ricardo, economist (died 1823)
1883 - Richard von Mises, mathematician († 1953)
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer († 1983)
1897 - Constance Talmadge, actress († 1973)
1900 - Richard Hughes, novelist († 1976)
1903 - Eliot Ness († 1957)
1912 - Glenn Seaborg († 1999)
1927 - Erma Bombeck, humorist († 1996)
1928 - Alexis Korner, rock musician († 1984)
1930 - Dick Sargent, actor († 1994)
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, actress († 1967)
1933 - Dickie Bird, cricket umpire
1935 - Dudley Moore, actor, musician, comedian, composer († 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
1965 - Suge Knight, record producer
1968 - Ashley Judd, actress
1979 - Kate Hudson, actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, actor

Deaths

1054 - Pope Leo IX
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland
1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist
1824 - Lord Byron, author, poet
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1882 - Charles Darwin, biologist, author
1906 - Pierre Curie, physicist
1919 - Emiliano Zapata, revolutionary
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian Senator, dies at 102
1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer
1958 - Robert Bentley, humorist, actor
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, former Bundeskanzler of West Germany
1974 - Ayub Khan, former President of Pakistan
1975 - Percy L. Julian, chemist (* 1899)
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, director
1987 - Maxwell Taylor, general
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, author
1992 - Frankie Howerd, comedian, actor
1993 - David Koresh, cult leader
1998 - Octavio Paz, writer, diplomat
2002 - Layne Staley, musician ("Alice in Chains")

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)

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