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
- 65 –The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1809 –An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810 –Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- 1855 –Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 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.
- 1951 –General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- 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.
- 1975 –India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 1984 –Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 1985 –FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 1987 –The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
- 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.
- 2011 –Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
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