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19 Apr 1524
Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
19 Apr 1539
Charles protestant German monarch signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
19 Apr 1770
Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 13 part of Suriname
19 Apr 1774
CW Glucks opera Iphigenia in Aulis premieres in Paris
19 Apr 1775
Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
19 Apr 1775
New England militiamen begin the siege of Boston hemming in the British army garrison
19 Apr 1810
Venezuela achieves home rule Vicente Emparan Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
19 Apr 1836
Nikolai Gogols Revisor premieres in St Petersburg
19 Apr 1837
Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
19 Apr 1839
Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
19 Apr 1861
Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers 9 civilians killed
19 Apr 1861
Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
19 Apr 1863
Union troops and fleet occupy For Huger Virginia
19 Apr 1877
Opera Les Cloches de Cornerville is produced (Paris)
19 Apr 1892
Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made automotive for a test drive
19 Apr 1894
Jules Massenets opera Werther premieres in NYC
19 Apr 1897
1st Boston Marathon (B.A.A. Road Race) won by John J. McDermott in 25510 the worlds oldest annual marathon inspired by success of the first marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics
19 Apr 1900
Highest scoring opening game Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10
19 Apr 1906
Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
19 Apr 1909
13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud in 25336.8
19 Apr 1909
A convention with Turkey recognizes Bulgarian independence
19 Apr 1910
Halleys comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
19 Apr 1915
19th Boston Marathon won by Canadian douard Fabre in 23141.2
19 Apr 1916
Alderman Kelly reads the Castle Order to a meeting of Dublin Corporation this forged document supposedly from Dublin Castle indicated that there was to be mass arrests of Irish Volunteers to prevent trouble
19 Apr 1919
Leslie Irvin of US makes first premeditated free-fall parachute jump
19 Apr 1919
Opera Monsieur Beaucaire is produced (London)
19 Apr 1920
24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 22931
19 Apr 1921
Funeral of last German Emperoress Augusta Victoria
19 Apr 1923
New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men except soldiers
19 Apr 1924
National Barn Dance premieres on WLS Chicago
19 Apr 1926
30th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 22540.4
19 Apr 1928
Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
19 Apr 1928
Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
19 Apr 1928
The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
19 Apr 1936
First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine anti-Jewish riots break out
19 Apr 1937
41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 23320
19 Apr 1938
Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
19 Apr 1939
Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
19 Apr 1940
Lake Shore Ltd derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls New York
19 Apr 1940
Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
19 Apr 1941
Bertolt Brechts play Mother Courage and her Childeren premieres in Zurich
19 Apr 1943
47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 22825.8 his 2nd of 4 wins in the event
19 Apr 1943
Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
19 Apr 1944
NFL Draft Angelo Bertelli from University of Notre Dame first pick by Boston Yanks
19 Apr 1945
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel opens on Broadway
19 Apr 1945
US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
19 Apr 1945
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established
19 Apr 1946
Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
19 Apr 1947
AAU record for a 25-foot rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
19 Apr 1947
French ship explodes in Texas City harbor kills about 522
19 Apr 1947
Stanley Cup Final Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto ON Toronto Maple Leafs edge Montreal Canadiens 2-1 for a 4-2 series win first all-Canadian final since 1935
19 Apr 1947
Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (22539)
19 Apr 1947
England beats France 6-3 at Twickenham to be level on points with Wales for a share of the Five Nations Rugby Championship first appearance of France in tournament since 1931
19 Apr 1948
52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 23102 his 4th victory in the event
19 Apr 1948
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) TV network debuts
19 Apr 1951
Tree Grows in Brooklyn opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
19 Apr 1953
WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19 Apr 1954
58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 22039
19 Apr 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
19 Apr 1956
1st ML baseball game in NJ Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
19 Apr 1960
Baseball uniforms begin displaying players names on their backs
19 Apr 1960
Comiskey Parks famed exploding scoreboard begins operating
19 Apr 1962
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46900m
19 Apr 1963
Hot Spot opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
19 Apr 1964
Rightist coup in Laos Suvanna Phuma remains premier
19 Apr 1964
Roger Sessions opera Montezuma premieres in West Berlin
19 Apr 1965
1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
19 Apr 1965
69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in race record 21633
19 Apr 1965
At a cost of 20000 the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of suns glare this causes the grass to die
19 Apr 1965
Whipped Cream & Other Delights fourth full album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Band is released
19 Apr 1966
In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
19 Apr 1967
Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they dont)
19 Apr 1967
Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years
19 Apr 1969
Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
19 Apr 1970
Look to the Lilies closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
19 Apr 1971
75th Boston Marathon lvaro Meja of Colombia wins in 21845 American Sara Mae Berman 1st woman for 3rd straight year in 30830 (unsanctioned)
19 Apr 1971
Charles Manson sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sharon Tate
19 Apr 1971
Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
19 Apr 1971
USSR Salyut 1 launched 1st manned lab in orbit
19 Apr 1972
Dont Bother Me I Cant Cope opens at Playhouse NYC for 1065 performances
19 Apr 1972
Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth
19 Apr 1972
Hungary revises its constitution to declare itself a socialist state
19 Apr 1973
Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
19 Apr 1974
Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
19 Apr 1975
India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
19 Apr 1976
80th Boston Marathon US double Jack Fultz is mens winner in 22019 Kim Merritt takes womens section in 24710
19 Apr 1978
Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
19 Apr 1979
FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn New York)
19 Apr 1980
25th Eurovision Song Contest Johnny Logan for Ireland wins singing Whats Another Year in The Hague
19 Apr 1981
William Finns musical March of Falsettos premieres in NYC
19 Apr 1982
86th Boston Marathon American Alberto Salazar claims mens title in 20851 Charlotte Teske of West Germany wins womens section in 22933
19 Apr 1982
Guinon Bluford announced as 1st African American NASA astronaut
19 Apr 1982
Rosie Ruiz marathon race cheater arrested for forgery
19 Apr 1984
Nemesis death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)
19 Apr 1984
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australias national anthem with green and gold the national colors
19 Apr 1985
16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
19 Apr 1987
Brendon Kuruppu scores 201 on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
19 Apr 1987
Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win
19 Apr 1987
Jacqueline Blanc sets womens downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
19 Apr 1987
LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
19 Apr 1987
Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
19 Apr 1989
Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa killing 47 sailors
19 Apr 1989
Kevin Elster (NY Mets) sets error-less shortstop mark at 73
19 Apr 1989
Violent assault and rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYCs Central Park. Known as the Central Park jogger incident it became according to the NY Times one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s.
19 Apr 1990
Contra guerrillas leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce
19 Apr 1990
Pistons & 76ers get into a fight accruing 162500 fines (NBA record)
19 Apr 1991
Greyhound Bus posts 195 million loss for 1990
19 Apr 1992
53rd PGA Seniors Golf Championship Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke from Mike Hill
19 Apr 1992
4 Baboons Adoring the Sun closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances
19 Apr 1993
97th Boston Marathon Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya wins mens event in 20933 Olga Markova of Russia repeats as womens champion in 22527
19 Apr 1993
After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident suicide tear gas are disputed causes)
19 Apr 1993
Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea kills 40
19 Apr 1993
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
19 Apr 1994
Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (1125.88)
19 Apr 1994
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
19 Apr 1994
US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
19 Apr 1995
Oklahoma City bombing - a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building kills 168 & injures 500
19 Apr 1996
South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
19 Apr 1997
San Diego Padres & St Louis Cards play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
19 Apr 1997
NFL Draft Ohio State offensive tackle Orlando Pace first pick by St. Louis Rams
19 Apr 1999
103rd Boston Marathon Joseph Chebet of Kenya takes mens title in 20952 3-peat for Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia in womens race in 22325
19 Apr 2004
108th Boston Marathon Kenyan double Timothy Cherigat takes mens title in 21037 Catherine Ndereba wins her 3rd womens event in 22427
19 Apr 2010
114th Boston Marathon Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins 4th mens title in 20552 Teyba Erkesso of Ethiopia womens champion in 22611
19 Apr 2013
Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
19 Apr 2015
Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya with only 27 migrants rescued.
19 Apr 2015
50th Academy of Country Music Awards Luke Bryan Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert win
19 Apr 2017
Fox News confirms they would be letting go of Bill OReilly after allegations of sexual harassment
19 Apr 2018
Senator Tammy Duckworth is the first parent to bring a baby into the US Senate a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chambers floor
19 Apr 1997
Renee Slaughter crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
19 Apr 1971
After smashing 124 in the 1st innings Indian cricket opener Sunil Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd innings in the drawn 5th Test against the West Indies in Port of Spain Trinidad
19 Apr 1989
Central Park Five Violent rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYCs Central Park became one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s. 5 men wrongfully convicted spend between 6-13 years in prison
19 Apr 1992
PGA Seniors Championship Mens Golf PGA National GC Lee Trevino beats Mike Hill by 1 stroke for his 3rd seniors major title
19 Apr 1994
Illmatic debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
19 Apr 1941
Bertolt Brechts play Mother Courage and her Children premieres in Zurich
19 Apr 1990
Contra guerrillas leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce n Nicaraguas civil war
19 Apr 1993
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crash lands in Iowa
19 Apr 1994
Illmatic debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
19 Apr 1938
Baker Bowl Philadelphia Phillies infielder Emmett Heine Mueller & Brooklyn Dodger outfielder Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st MLB at bats
19 Apr 1945
Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Carousel opens at the Majestic Theatre NYC runs for 890 performances
19 Apr 1951
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
19 Apr 1985
16th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-D) Discovery 4 returns to Earth
19 Apr 1999
German Reichstag reopens with new glass dome by architect Norman Foster
19 Apr 1919
Andr Messagers romantic opera Monsieur Beaucaire based on Booth Tarkingtons novel opens at the Princes Theatre in London England
19 Apr 1947
Stanley Cup Final Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto Ontario Toronto Maple Leafs edge Montreal Canadiens 2-1 for a 4-2 series win first all-Canadian final since 1935
19 Apr 1956
1st MLB baseball game in New Jersey - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
19 Apr 1970
24th Tony Awards Borstal Boy (play) & Applause (musical) win
19 Apr 1989
Central Park Five Violent rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYCs Central Park becomes one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s. Five teenagers are wrongfully convicted and spend between 6-12 years in prison.
19 Apr 2018
King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of Swaziland to Eswatini which translates as the Land of the Swati
19 Apr 1655
Adriana Nooseman becomes Dutch 1st actress to perform on stage professionally in the Netherlands in the play Onvergelijkelijke Ariana at Amsterdam Schouwburg
19 Apr 1774
Christoph Willibald Glucks opera Iphignie en Aulide based on the play Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides premieres in Paris
19 Apr 1883
British banker Thomas Agnew and others found the Liverpool Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (LSPCC) based on Agnews observation of a similar group in NYC its success leads to a national organization
19 Apr 1928
New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
19 Apr 1967
The Beatles sign a contract agreeing to stay together for 10 years (they dont)
19 Apr 1975
British rock band Queen begins concert tour of Japan
19 Apr 2020
US COVID-19 death toll passes 40000 with 742442 cases recorded according to Johns Hopkins tally
19 Apr 2021
Cubas Communist party announces Miguel Daz-Canel will replace Ral Castro as party leader after the latter steps down
19 Apr 2021
In Las Vegas Nevada San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau breaks Gordie Howes NHL record for most games played now at 1768 and counting
19 Apr 2021
NASA successfully flies its drone helicopter Ingenuity on Mars first powered aircraft to fly on another world
19 Apr 2021
New Zealand and Australia open a travel bubble between the two countries after more than a year of border closures
19 Apr 2022
US inflation hits 8.5% the highest since 1981 driven by a rise in gas prices rent and food [1]
19 Apr 2023
At least 78 people are killed crushed in a crowd waiting for handouts at a school in Sanaa Yemen during a Ramadan event [1]
19 Apr 1012
Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury Alphege murdered by Vikings while being held hostage by them in Greenwich London
19 Apr 1982
Former Cuban marathon cheat Rosie Ruiz is arrested for embezzling 60000
19 Apr 1993
South Dakota governor George S. Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crash lands in Iowa
19 Apr 1999
The Space Needle built in 1961 is declared a local historic landmark by city council of Seattle Washington
19 Apr 2024
Worlds largest-ever election begins in India with 968 million eligible voters in the first of seven stages ending 1 June
19 Apr 1539
Charles Protestant German monarch signs the Treaty of Frankfurt
19 Apr 1892
Charles Duryea takes the first American-made automobile for a test drive
19 Apr 1982
Guion Bluford is announced as the first African American NASA astronaut
19 Apr 1984
Nemesis the death star of dinosaurs first appears in print in Nature magazine
19 Apr 1996
South Africa defeats Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
19 Apr 2020
Turkey passes Iran to become the Middle Eastern country with the most COVID-19 cases with 86306 infections Iran continues to have the most deaths