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History Events on April 19

By  Jacinda Lynn Walker  19 Apr   102 Views

History Events on April 19

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Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

#James_Cook

In 1770

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.

#Oklahoma_City_bombing

In 1995

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

#Bundestag

In 1999

India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.

#India

In 1975

World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.

#Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

In 1943

American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.

#American_Revolutionary_War

In 1775

Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

#Salyut_1

In 1971

Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.

#Albert_Hofmann

In 1943

French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.

#Augustin-Jean_Fresnel

In 1818

The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.

#Treaty_of_London_(1839)

In 1839

With 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 inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa was not actually born until 1717.

#Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

In 1713

Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.

#Fidel_Castro

In 2011

The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

#The_Simpsons

In 1987

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.

#Boston_Marathon_bombing

In 2013

Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.

#Venezuela

In 1810

Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

#Mae_West

In 1927

Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.

#Irene_of_Athens

In 797

A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

#Gun_turret

In 1989

American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.

#American_Civil_War

In 1861

Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate-LaBianca murders.

#Charles_Manson

In 1971

John 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.

#John_Adams

In 1782

Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.

#Air_Philippines_Flight_541

In 2000

The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.

#Kishinev_pogrom

In 1903

Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

#Advance_Australia_Fair

In 1984

An 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.

#Duchy_of_Warsaw

In 1809

World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.

#World_War_II

In 1942

The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.

#Waco_siege

In 1993

Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.

#Grace_Kelly

In 1956

Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

#April_Revolution

In 1960

Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.

#Sierra_Leone

In 1971

Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.

#Marie_Antoinette

In 1770

The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.

#Siege_of_Cambrai_(1677)

In 1677

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.

In 2005

Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.

In 1985

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.

In 1973

In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.

In 1608

Treaty of Frankfurt signed.

In 1539

Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.

In 1529

The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are being slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.

In 1506

Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.

In 1012

Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).

In 531

The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.

In 65

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