19 April History


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  • 1539    -    Emperor Charles V reaches a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 1689    -    Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros.
  • 1764    -    The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.
  • 1775    -    The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • 1782    -    The Netherlands recognizes the United States.
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  • 1794    -    Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw.
  • 1802    -    The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants.
  • 1824    -    English poet Lord Byron dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.
  • 1861    -    The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed.
  • 1861    -    President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.
  • 1880    -    The Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner.
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  • 1927    -    In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.
  • 1934    -    Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.
  • 1938    -    General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 1939    -    Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights.
  • 1943    -    The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins.
  • 1960    -    Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs.
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  • 1971    -    Russia launches its first Salyut space station.
  • 1977    -    Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots.
  • 1982    -    NASA names Sally Ride to be the first woman astronaut.
  • 1989    -    The battleship USS Iowa's number 2 turret explodes, killing sailors.
  • 1993    -    The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Dividian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas.
  • 1995    -    A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

  • 19 April Birthdays

  • 1666    -    Sarah Kembel Knight, diarist.
  • 1721    -    Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1832    -    Lucretia Rudolph, President Garfield's first lady.
  • 1877    -    Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor.
  • 1900    -    Richard Hughes, English novelist and playwright (A High Wind in Jamaica).
  • 1903    -    Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition.
  • 1905    -    Tom Hopkinson, British writer.
  • 1912    -    Glenn T. Seaborg, physicist.
  • 1933    -    Etheridge Knight, poet.