WillDekkard
04-19-2010, 03:31 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 19th
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* 1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
* 1529 At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fόrst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
* 1587 Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cαdiz 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 Captain James Cook sights Australia.
* 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI by Proxy marriage.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with 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 which 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.
* 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
* 1847 New portico at British Museum opened
* 1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
* 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.
* 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.
* 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
* 1936 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
* 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.
* 1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
* 1945 The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
* 1948 Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
* 1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
* 1954 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
* 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.
* 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
* 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
* 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
* 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, DC.
* 1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
* 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
* 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 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R.
* 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
* 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
* 1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
* 1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed in Iowa.
* 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 bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
* 1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, ND. 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.
* 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
* 2007 A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a fuel tanker in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 and wounding 34 people.
* 2008 Bowie Seamount on the coast of British Columbia, Canada becomes a Marine Protected Area.
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- April 19th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
* 1529 At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fόrst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
* 1587 Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cαdiz 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 Captain James Cook sights Australia.
* 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI by Proxy marriage.
* 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with 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 which 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.
* 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
* 1847 New portico at British Museum opened
* 1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
* 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.
* 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.
* 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
* 1936 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
* 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.
* 1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
* 1945 The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
* 1948 Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
* 1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
* 1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
* 1954 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
* 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.
* 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
* 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
* 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
* 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, DC.
* 1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
* 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
* 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 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R.
* 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
* 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
* 1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
* 1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed in Iowa.
* 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 bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
* 1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, ND. 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.
* 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
* 2007 A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a fuel tanker in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 and wounding 34 people.
* 2008 Bowie Seamount on the coast of British Columbia, Canada becomes a Marine Protected Area.
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