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. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Mar – '''April''' – May |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |colspan=4|   | 1 | 2 | 3 |- style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |- style="text-align:center;" | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |- style="text-align:center;" | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |- style="text-align:center;" | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 ||   |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangement
All days |} ==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. *1713 - Pragmatic Sanction was signed. *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 *Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992. 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