About April 19
April 19, 2025 is the 109th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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.
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What Happened On April 19
- 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.
- 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 inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
- 1770 –Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- 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.
- 1810 –Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- 1892 –Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1919 –Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- 1927 –Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1943 –Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
- 1948 –Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
- 1954 –The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 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.
- 1984 –Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 1985 –FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 1993 –The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
- 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.
- 1999 –The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
- 2005 –His 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.
- 2011 –Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
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