19 April
April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian
calendar (110th in leap years). There are 256 days remaining.
Events
1000-1899
1900-1999
- 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.
- 1980 - In The Hague, Netherlands, Johnny Logan wins
the twenty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "What's Another Year".
- 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.
2000-2099
- 2000 - NBA superstar Charles Barkley of the Houston Rockets makes his return to the court against the Phoenix Suns after having torn his left quadricep tendon completely away from his kneecap a little over four
months earlier. Barkley retired immediately after the game.
Births
1300-1899
1900-1999
- 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
- 1947 - Murray Perahia,
American pianist
- 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
- 1972 - Rivaldo, football player
- 1979 - Kate Hudson, actress
- 1981 - Hayden
Christensen, actor
- 1987 - Maria Sharapova,
tennis player
- 1988 - Ted Kim, volleyball player
- 1988 - Itay brandes, the dragonball af creator
Deaths
1000-1899
- 1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
- 1390 - King Robert
II of Scotland (b. 1316)
- 1578 - Uesugi Kenshin,
Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
- 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)
1900-1999
- 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)
- 1973 - Hans Kelsen, Austrian-American legal theorist
- 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
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