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What Happened on April 19th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
2020	A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.[15]
2013	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.
2011	Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
2005	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2000	Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
1999	The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
1995	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.
1993	The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
1989	A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1987	The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
1985	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.
1984	Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1975	India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
1975	South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
1973	The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
1971	Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971	Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971	Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1960	Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1956	Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1943	World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1943	Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
1942	World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1927	Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1903	The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
1861	American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1839	The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
1818	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.
1810	Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1809	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.
1782	John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
1775	American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1770	Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770	Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
1713	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 born until 1717.
1677	The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1617	The town of Uusikaupunki (Swedish: Nystad, lit. "New Town") is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
1608	In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
1539	The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.
1529	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.
1506	The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
797	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.
531	Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
65	The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.

Famous People Born on April 19

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Year	Name
1897	Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1926	Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (d. 1997)
1935	Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
1941	Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1960	Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach
1655	George St Lo(e), Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718)
1758	William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
1785	Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
1939	E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant, judge, and politician (d. 2013)
1937	Elinor Donahue, American actress

Famous People Deaths On April 19

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 19. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1950	Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
1768	Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
1390	Robert II, king of Scotland (b. 1316)
1966	Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1881)
1405	Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)
1013	Hisham II, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)
2006	Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
1906	Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1567	Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
1833	James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)