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
- 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.
- 1855 –Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- 1928 –The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 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.
- 1950 –Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 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
- 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.
- 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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