About April 19
April 19, 2024 is the 110th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 285 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 19
- 65 –The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
- 1529 –The 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.
- 1587 –Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1782 –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.
- 1919 –Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- 1945 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- 1950 –Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1951 –General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- 1955 –The 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.
- 1956 –Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 1960 –Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
- 1961 –The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
- 1971 –Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
- 1971 –Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 1985 –U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 1993 –South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
- 1995 –Oklahoma 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.
- 1997 –The 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.
- 2011 –Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
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