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What happend on 19. April in History
In our data base we found 346 events happened on 19. April:
• 65: The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested. [category: Events]
• 531: Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria). [category: Events]
• 1012: Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954) [category: Deaths]
• 1012: Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London. [category: Events]
• 1054: Pope Leo IX (b. 1002) [category: Deaths]
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• 1321: Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown) [category: Deaths]
• 1390: Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316) [category: Deaths]
• 1529: The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation. [category: Events]
• 1560: Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497) [category: Deaths]
• 1567: Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487) [category: Deaths]
• 1578: Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530) [category: Deaths]
• 1588: Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528) [category: Deaths]
• 1603: Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685) [category: Births]
• 1605: Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1669) [category: Births]
• 1608: Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536) [category: Deaths]
• 1613: Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1661) [category: Births]
• 1618: Thomas Bastard, English clergyman (b. 1566) [category: Deaths]
• 1627: John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583) [category: Deaths]
• 1629: Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer [category: Deaths]
• 1658: Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716) [category: Births]
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• 1660: Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (d. 1716) [category: Births]
• 1665: Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721) [category: Births]
• 1677: The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops. [category: Events]
• 1684: Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1686: Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610) [category: Deaths]
• 1689: Christina of Sweden (b. 1626) [category: Deaths]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1715: James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1721: Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1733: Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655) [category: Deaths]
• 1734: Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer (d. 1786) [category: Births]
• 1739: Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1751: Peter Lacy, Irish-Russian field marshal (b. 1678) [category: Deaths]
• 1768: Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697) [category: Deaths]
• 1770: Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia. [category: Events]
• 1770: Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. [category: Events]
• 1775: American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1785: Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858) [category: Births]
• 1787: Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837) [category: Births]
• 1791: Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1810: Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed. [category: Events]
• 1813: Benjamin Rush, American physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian (b. 1745) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1824: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788) [category: Deaths]
• 1831: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765) [category: Deaths]
• 1832: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1833: James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, English admiral (b. 1756) [category: Deaths]
• 1839: The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1840: Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1855: Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London [category: Events]
• 1861: American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city. [category: Events]
• 1874: Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1877: Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1881: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1882: Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1883: Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1889: Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1891: Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1892: Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1892: T. Pelham Dale, English clergyman (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1894: Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1897: Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1897: Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian [category: Births]
• 1897: Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1899: George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1900: Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1900: Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1901: Alfred Horatio Belo, American writer and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1906: Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1912: Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1914: Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Ephraim Shay, American inventor, designer, and entrepreneur (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Sven Hassel, Danish soldier and author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1919: Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute. [category: Events]
• 1920: Gene Leis, American guitarist, educator, bandleader, composer, and producer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1921: Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1922: Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1925: Hugh O'Brian, American actor [category: Births]
• 1925: John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1926: Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1926: Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. [category: Events]
• 1928: Alexis Korner, English musician (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1928: The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. [category: Events]
• 1930: Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1930: Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman, statesman, and senator (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1931: Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1932: Fernando Botero, Colombian artist [category: Births]
• 1933: Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire [category: Births]
• 1933: Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1934: Dickie Goodman, American music producer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1935: Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1935: Justin Rigali, American cardinal [category: Births]
• 1936: Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium [category: Births]
• 1937: Elinor Donahue, American actress [category: Births]
• 1937: Joseph Estrada, Philippine actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines [category: Births]
• 1937: William Martin Conway, British critic and mountaineer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Stanley Fish, American theorist and scholar [category: Births]
• 1940: Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1940: Genya Ravan, American singer(Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive) [category: Births]
• 1941: Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1941: Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1941: Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Alan Price, English musician (The Animals) [category: Births]
• 1942: Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975) [category: Births]
• 1942: Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. [category: Events]
• 1943: Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers) [category: Births]
• 1943: Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [category: Events]
• 1944: Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and composer (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains) [category: Births]
• 1944: James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize [category: Births]
• 1944: Keith Erickson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1945: Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established. [category: Events]
• 1946: Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer [category: Births]
• 1946: Tim Curry, British actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles and The Mothers Of Invention) [category: Births]
• 1947: Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor [category: Births]
• 1948: Rick Miller, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host [category: Births]
• 1948: Burma joins the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1949: Larry Walters, American pilot (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1949: Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman [category: Births]
• 1949: Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. [category: Events]
• 1951: Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1951: Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands [category: Births]
• 1951: General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military. [category: Events]
• 1952: Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1952: Tony Plana, Cuban-American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1953: Rod Morgenstein, American drummer and educator (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam) [category: Births]
• 1953: Ruby Wax, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1954: Bob Rock, Canadian musician and producer (The Payolas) [category: Births]
• 1954: Trevor Francis, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1954: The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan. [category: Events]
• 1955: Jim Corbett, British-Indian conservationist, author and hunter (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1956: Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1956: Sue Barker, British tennis player and sports presenter [category: Births]
• 1956: Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. [category: Events]
• 1957: Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman [category: Births]
• 1957: Tony Martin, English singer and musician (Black Sabbath and Phenomena) [category: Births]
• 1958: Denis O'Brien, Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland [category: Births]
• 1958: Steve Antin, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1959: Donald Markwell, Australian social scientist and educator [category: Births]
• 1960: Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and producer [category: Births]
• 1960: Frank Viola, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1960: John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1960: Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1960: Roger Merrett, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. [category: Events]
• 1961: Spike Owen, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1963: Valerie Plame, American C.I.A. agent and author [category: Births]
• 1964: Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Natalie Dessay, French soprano [category: Births]
• 1965: Suge Knight, American record producer and executive [category: Births]
• 1966: Brett Gladman, Canadian astronomer [category: Births]
• 1966: David La Haye, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Julia Neigel, German singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Osamu Matsuda, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1966: Véronique Gens, French soprano [category: Births]
• 1966: Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and theatre director (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Javier Solis, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and musician (Cry Cry Cry) [category: Births]
• 1967: Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach [category: Births]
• 1967: Steven H Silver, American editor [category: Births]
• 1967: Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Arshad Warsi, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Ashley Judd, American actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Mswati III, King of Swaziland [category: Births]
• 1968: Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician, and composer [category: Births]
• 1969: Andrew Carnie, Canadian educator and writer [category: Births]
• 1969: Jesse James, American motorcycle builder [category: Births]
• 1969: Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player [category: Births]
• 1970: Kelly Holmes, English athlete [category: Births]
• 1970: Luis Miguel, Mexican singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Gad Elmaleh, French-Moroccan comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders. [category: Events]
• 1971: Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. [category: Events]
• 1971: Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. [category: Events]
• 1971: Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. [category: Events]
• 1972: Jeff Wilkins, American football player [category: Births]
• 1972: Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: George Gregan, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1974: Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched. [category: Events]
• 1976: Ruud Jolie, Dutch musician (Within Temptation) [category: Births]
• 1976: Scott Padgett, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Joe Beimel, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Jonny Storm, English wrestler [category: Births]
• 1977: Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Amanda Sage, American artist [category: Births]
• 1978: Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: James Franco, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player [category: Births]
• 1979: Kate Hudson, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Nicole Raczynski, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1979: Rocky Bernard, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Alexis Thorpe, American actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1980: Nick Groff, English-American paranormal investigator [category: Births]
• 1980: Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Antonio Mendes, Brazilian mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1981: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1981: James Hibberd, British cricketer [category: Births]
• 1981: Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002 [category: Births]
• 1981: Martin Havlat, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Troy Polamalu, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Cassandra Morris, American actress, editor, and writer [category: Births]
• 1982: Ignacio Serricchio, American actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast [category: Births]
• 1982: Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Joe Mauer, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Patrick Platins, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Zack Duke, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Christopher Pearce, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1984: Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. [category: Events]
• 1985: Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper [category: Births]
• 1985: Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas [category: Events]
• 1985: U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk. [category: Events]
• 1986: Candace Parker, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Heather Kuzmich, American model [category: Births]
• 1986: Maxine, American wrestler and manager [category: Births]
• 1986: Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Will Thursfield, British footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Courtland Mead, American actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer [category: Births]
• 1987: David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1987: Joe Hart, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1987: Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1987: Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress [category: Births]
• 1987: The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show [category: Events]
• 1988: Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and no3b) [category: Births]
• 1988: Saya Yūki, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot, first female pilot in Korea (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Belinda Owusu, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Dominik Mader, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian singer (The Cottars) [category: Births]
• 1989: Dame Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. [category: Events]
• 1989: The Central Park Jogger case: While jogging in Central Park, 28-year-old woman is brutally assaulted and raped. [category: Events]
• 1990: Damien Le Tallec, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Himchan, South Korean singer (B.A.P) [category: Births]
• 1990: Héctor Herrera, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Kim Chiu, Chinese-Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Patrick Wiegers, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Teo Olivares, American actor [category: Births]
• 1991: Steve Cook, British footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Stanley Hawes, British-Australian producer, director and administrator (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Sebastian de Souza, English actor [category: Births]
• 1993: David Koresh, American religious leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Joseph Wallace, American murder victim (b. 1990) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa. [category: Events]
• 1993: The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die. [category: Events]
• 1995: Akira Saitō, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1996: London Freeman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: John Martin Scripps, English murderer (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Eldon Hoke, American singer and drummer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1998: Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: David Sanes, American navy employee (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Hermine Braunsteiner, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945. [category: Events]
• 2000: Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American politician, 73rd governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English Khalifatul Masih IV and Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of The Freedom Association (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: George Pan Cosmatos, Greek director (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI. [category: Events]
• 2006: Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Helen Walton, American businesswomen, wife of Sam Walton (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Carl Williams, Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title. [category: Events]
• 2012: Greg Ham, Australian musician, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gustaf Jansson, Swedish athlete (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Levon Helm, American musician and actor (The Band) (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• _: April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Beginning of the Independence Movement (Venezuela) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Bicycle Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18. (Iceland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Emma of Lesum [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Expeditus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: George of Antioch [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Landing of the 33 (Uruguay) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Health Day (Kiribati) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Leo IX [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Primrose Day (United Kingdom) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ælfheah of Canterbury [category: Holidays and observances]