Today in History
19 April
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| 1012 Aelfheah, who became the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1005, was murdered by Danes who had been ravaging the south of England including Canterbury since 1011. | ||
| 1320 Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67) was born | ||
| 1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne | ||
| 1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly | ||
| 1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism | ||
| 1539 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, signed the Truce of Frankfurt with rebellious protestant princes who demanded a permanent settlement of the religious situation. | ||
| 1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel | ||
| 1587 English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor and sank the Spanish fleet, an action he referred to "as singeing the king of Spain's beard." | ||
| 1588 Paolo Veronese, one of the major painters of the 16th century Venetian school, died. | ||
| 1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France | ||
| 1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam | ||
| 1689 Queen Christina of Sweden died. Queen from 1644-54, she abdicated because of her secret conversion to Roman Catholicism, which was proscribed in Sweden. | ||
| 1713 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction, giving women the rights of succession to Hapsburg possessions. | ||
| 1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright was born | ||
| 1768 Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist was born | ||
| 1770 Capt James Cook 1st sees Australia | ||
| 1772 David Ricardo, economist was born | ||
| 1775 The British under Thomas Gage at Concord and Captain John Parker at Lexington were defeated by the Americans and attacked on their return march to Boston. It was these events that started the American Revolution. | ||
| 1795 Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist was born | ||
| 1824 English poet Lord Byron died of a fever while aiding Greek rebels fighting the Turks. | ||
| 1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay | ||
| 1830 Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit was born | ||
| 1839 The Treaty of London was signed, establishing recognition of the Kingdom of Belgium by all the states of Europe. | ||
| 1850 The Clayton-Bulwer agreement was signed under which Britain and the U.S. agreed not to obtain exclusive control of a proposed Panama canal. | ||
| 1850 Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver was born | ||
| 1861 Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed | ||
| 1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire | ||
| 1882 Charles Darwin, English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution expressed in "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," died. | ||
| 1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels | ||
| 1891 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda) was born | ||
| 1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor was born | ||
| 1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire | ||
| 1906 SF Earthquake ends killing 452 | ||
| 1906 Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist, was run over and killed in Paris. Together with his wife, Marie, he had worked on magnetism and radioactivity. | ||
| 1916 Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano | ||
| 1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria | ||
| 1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers | ||
| 1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland | ||
| 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation removing the U.S. from the gold standard. | ||
| 1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine | ||
| 1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late) | ||
| 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege | ||
| 1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia | ||
| 1941 Milk rationed in Holland | ||
| 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto | ||
| 1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra | ||
| 1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid | ||
| 1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa | ||
| 1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522 | ||
| 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China | ||
| 1951 Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career | ||
| 1956 Prince Rainier of Monaco married U.S. film actress Grace Kelly. | ||
| 1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails | ||
| 1960 A student uprising toppled the authoritarian government of South Korean President Syngman Rhee. | ||
| 1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted | ||
| 1967 The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Surveyor 3 landed on the moon. | ||
| 1968 Belgian construction workers strike | ||
| 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day) | ||
| 1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth | ||
| 1972 Hungary revises constitution | ||
| 1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR | ||
| 1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel | ||
| 1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut | ||
| 1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit | ||
| 1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors | ||
| 1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone | ||
| 1989 Daphne du Maurier, British novelist, died. Among the world's best-selling authors for half a century, her period romances and adventure stories include "Jamaica Inn," "Rebecca" and "Frenchman's Creek." | ||
| 1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming govt agree to truce | ||
| 1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war | ||
| 1993 More than 80 Branch Davidians including their leader David Koresh died when federal agents stormed their compound in Waco, Texas after a 51-day standoff. | ||
| 1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40 | ||
| 1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election | ||
| 1995 The worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil occurred when a Ryder truck packed with an explosive-fertilizer compound blew up, gutting the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City and killing 168 people. | ||
| 1996 South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah | ||
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