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
- 1587 –Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
- 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.
- 1839 –The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
- 1855 –Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- 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.
- 1943 –Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
- 1943 –World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
- 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.
- 1971 –Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1971 –Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 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.
- 1989 –A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 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.
- 1999 –The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
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