What happened on April 19? There are more than 280 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About April 19
April 19 is the 110th day of the year 2024. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 16th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Hardy, Kentucky 41531 sunrise occured at 06:46 AM and sunset occured at 08:09 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Diamond while the mystical birthstone is Opal.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 285 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For April 19
- 65The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
- 1012Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
- 1529The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
- 1587Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
- 1713With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
- 1770Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- 1770Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
- 1775American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1782John Adams secures the Dutch Republic’s recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
- 1809An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- 1839The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
- 1855Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- 1861American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
- 1892Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1919Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- 1927Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1928The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1942World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 1943Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
- 1943World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- 1945Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- 1948Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
- 1950Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1951General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- 1954The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 1955The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
- 1956Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 1960Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
- 1961The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
- 1971Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
- 1971Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1971Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 1971Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
- 1975India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 1984Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 1985FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 1985U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 1987The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
- 1989A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 1993South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
- 1993The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
- 1995Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
- 1997The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
- 1999The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
- 2005His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
- 2011Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
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Who Were Born On April 19?
- 1603Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
- 1658Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
- 1665Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- 1686Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
- 1721Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
- 1772David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
- 1785Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
- 1787Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
- 1793Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
- 1814Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
- 1832José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1874Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist (d. 1952)
- 1877Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
- 1882Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
- 1883Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
- 1889Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
- 1892Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
- 1894Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
- 1897Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1897Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian and oldest living person in Japan.
- 1897Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
- 1899George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1900Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
- 1900Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General (1967-1974) (d. 1991)
- 1903Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
- 1907Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
- 1912Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1920Gene Leis, American jazz guitarist and educator (d. 1993)
- 1921Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (d. 2006)
- 1922Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
- 1925Hugh O'Brian, American actor
- 1925John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011)
- 1926Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
- 1928Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
- 1930Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1931Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009)
- 1931Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
- 1932Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
- 1933Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
- 1933Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1934Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
- 1935Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
- 1935Justin Rigali, American Roman Catholic cardinal
- 1936Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1979-1992)
- 1937Elinor Donahue, American actress
- 1937Joseph Estrada, Philippine actor and politician, 13th President (1998-2001)
- 1938Stanley Fish, American literary theorist and legal scholar
- 1940Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
- 1940Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
- 1941Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1941Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
- 1942Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
- 1942Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975)
- 1942Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
- 1943Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
- 1944Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
- 1944James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
- 1944Keith Erickson, American basketball player
- 1946Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
- 1946Tim Curry, British actor
- 1947Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles, The Mothers Of Invention)
- 1947Murray Perahia, American pianist
- 1948Rick Miller, American baseball player
- 1948Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host
- 1949Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (d. 1993)
- 1949Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
- 1951Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
- 1951Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- 1952Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
- 1953Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
- 1953Ruby Wax, American comedian
- 1954Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
- 1954Trevor Francis, English footballer
- 1956Sue Barker, British sports presenter, former tennis player
- 1957Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
- 1957Tony Martin, English musician
- 1958Steve Antin, American actor and director
- 1959Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
- 1960Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and musical producer
- 1960Frank Viola, American baseball player
- 1960John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
- 1960Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
- 1961Spike Owen, American baseball player
- 1962Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
- 1963Valerie Plame, American C.I.A. agent and author
- 1964Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer
- 1965Natalie Dessay, French soprano
- 1965Suge Knight, American record producer
- 1966Brett Gladman, Canadian astronomer
- 1966David La Haye, Canadian actor
- 1966Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer
- 1966Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1966Véronique Gens, French soprano
- 1967Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
- 1967Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
- 1968Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
- 1968Ashley Judd, American actress
- 1968Mswati III, King of Swaziland
- 1968Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
- 1969Andrew Carnie, Linguistics professor at the University of Arizona
- 1969Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
- 1969Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
- 1970Kelly Holmes, English athlete
- 1970Luis Miguel, Mexican pop singer
- 1972Jeff Wilkins, American football player
- 1972Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1973Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
- 1974Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
- 1975Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
- 1975Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
- 1976Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
- 1976Scott Padgett, American basketball player
- 1977Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
- 1977Joe Beimel, American baseball player
- 1977Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
- 1978Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
- 1978Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
- 1978James Franco, American actor
- 1979Kate Hudson, American actress
- 1979Matthew Pace, American entrepreneur
- 1979Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
- 1980Alexis Thorpe, American actress
- 1981Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
- 1981Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
- 1981James Hibberd, British cricketer
- 1981Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
- 1981Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai film actress
- 1981Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
- 1981Troy Polamalu, American football player
- 1982Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
- 1982Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1983Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
- 1983Joe Mauer, American baseball player
- 1983Patrick Platins, German footballer
- 1983Zack Duke, American baseball player
- 1984Christopher Pearce, British cricketer
- 1984Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
- 1985Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
- 1985Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
- 1986Candace Parker, American basketball player
- 1986Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
- 1986Karlee Pérez, American professional wrestler and manager
- 1986Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
- 1986Will Thursfield, British footballer
- 1987Courtland Mead, American actor
- 1987Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer
- 1987Joe Hart, English footballer
- 1987Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
- 1987Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
- 1988Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
- 1989Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
- 1989Dominik Mader, German footballer
- 1989Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
- 1990Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
- 1990Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
- 1991Steve Cook, British footballer
- 1992Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer
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Who Died On April 19?
- 1012Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
- 1054Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
- 1321Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
- 1390King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
- 1560Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
- 1567Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
- 1578Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
- 1588Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
- 1608Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
- 1618Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist
- 1627John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
- 1629Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
- 1684Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
- 1686Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
- 1689Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
- 1733Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
- 1739Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
- 1751Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian field marshal (b. 1678)
- 1768Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- 1791Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1813Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
- 1824George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- 1831Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
- 1833James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (b. 1756)
- 1840Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
- 1854Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
- 1881Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
- 1882Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1892T. Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
- 1901Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
- 1906Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- 1906Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
- 1914Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
- 1916Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
- 1926Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
- 1930Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
- 1937William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
- 1941Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
- 1949Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- 1950Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
- 1955Jim Corbett, British-Indian conservationist, author and hunter (b. 1875)
- 1960Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (b. 1894)
- 1966Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
- 1967Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
- 1975Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
- 1988Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
- 1989Dame Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
- 1991Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
- 1993David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
- 1993George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
- 1993Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
- 1997El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
- 1998Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 1999David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
- 1999Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
- 2000Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
- 2003Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV, Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and fourth successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. (b. 1928)
- 2004John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
- 2004Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- 2005Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
- 2005George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
- 2005Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
- 2005Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2006Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
- 2007Helen Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
- 2007Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
- 2008Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
- 2008Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
- 2008John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
- 2009J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
- 2010Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)
- 2010Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
- 2010Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
- 2010Keith “Guru” Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
- 2011Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
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