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
- 1012 –Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1770 –Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 1950 –Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1951 –General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- 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.
- 1960 –Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
- 1971 –Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- 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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