April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL HANGING OUT DAY
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.
NATIONAL HANGING OUT DAY
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.
1770 – Captain James Cook, holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
1861 – American Civil War― The Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1865 – The funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. Ending on 16 May. A total of 13,000 Jews died, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated. German casualties are not known, but were not more than 300. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons premiered as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. Its 28th season began on September 25, 2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, and, in 2009, it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted prime time television series. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over $527 million. On November 4, 2016, the series was renewed for a twenty-ninth and thirtieth season of 22 episodes each, extending the show to 2019.
1987 – The Simpsons premiered as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 615 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. Its 28th season began on September 25, 2016. It is the longest-running American sitcom and the longest-running American animated program, and, in 2009, it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted prime time television series. The Simpsons Movie, a feature-length film, was released in theaters worldwide on July 27, 2007, and grossed over $527 million. On November 4, 2016, the series was renewed for a twenty-ninth and thirtieth season of 22 episodes each, extending the show to 2019.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound 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, USA, is bombed, killing 168, carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
1997 – The 1997 Red River Flood 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.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
BORN TODAY
1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)
1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (transuranium elements) and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)
1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (transuranium elements) and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
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