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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 304 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 19
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1810 –Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- 1839 –The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
- 1855 –Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- 1927 –Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1928 –The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1945 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- 1954 –The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 1956 –Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 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.
- 1985 –FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 1985 –U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 1987 –The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
- 1989 –A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 1993 –South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
- 1993 –The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
- 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.
- 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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