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.
- 1012 –Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
- 1892 –Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 1945 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- 1948 –Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
- 1954 –The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 1971 –Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 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.
- 1985 –FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
- 2011 –Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
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