About April 19
April 19, 2023 is the 109th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 297 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.
- 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 –Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
- 1919 –Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
- 1971 –Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1971 –Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
- 1975 –India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 1987 –The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
- 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.
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