About April 19
April 19, 2021 is the 109th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 288 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.
- 1012 –Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
- 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.
- 1839 –The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
- 1892 –Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1927 –Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1948 –Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
- 1950 –Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1951 –General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- 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 –Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1984 –Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 1985 –U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
- 1993 –The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
- 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.
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