April 19 is the 109st day of the year (110nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1775 - The American Revolution begins. Colonial British troops and independence fighters engaged in the first clash in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- 1904 - Much of Toronto is devastated by fire.
- 1909 - Jeanne d'Arc was canonized.
- 1926 – The Cabotage Law, which allocates all kinds of maritime affairs in Turkish territorial waters to Turkish citizens and puts an end to the cabotage right of foreigners, was accepted.
- 1927 - Mae West's role in the play "Sex" was found obscene and sentenced to 10 days in prison.
- 1934 - Shirley Temple, Stand Up and Cheer He played his first role in the movie.
- 1938 – 6,6 people died in the 149 magnitude earthquake in and around Kırşehir.
- 1943 - Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann became the first person to experience the effects of LSD, which he produced from rye spurs.
- 1943 – II. World War II: German soldiers enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up Jews.
- 1947 - In India, the Congress Party agrees to divide the country into two separate states, India and Pakistan.
- 1948 - The United States tests a new atomic weapon in the Marshall Islands.
- 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retired from the Army.
- 1956 - Prince of Monaco III. Rainier and American film actress Grace Kelly were married in Monte Carlo. Representatives of 25 countries came to Monaco for the ceremony.
- 1961 – First press conviction after 27 May: Ahmet Emin Yalman was sentenced to a heavy fine of 25 liras.
- 1961 – The Bay of Pigs Landing against Cuba fails for the United States.
- 1964 -Ford launched the Mustang model.
- 1969 - Nationalist Movement Party leader Alparslan Türkeş said "birth control is an assassination".
- 1971 – A republic was proclaimed in Sierra Leone.
- 1971 - The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched into space.
- 1971 - American serial killer Charles Manson is sentenced to death for killing five people, including Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
- 1975 - India's first satellite "Aryabhata" was launched.
- 1980 – Ajda Pekkan ranked 19th among 15 contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Petrol", arranged by Şanar Yurdatapan.
- 1987 - The Simpsons premiered on television.
- 1989 – An explosion in one of the gun turrets of the battleship USS Iowa kills 47 sailors.
- 1995 – Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma, USA was bombed, 168 people were killed.
- 1999 – The German Bundestag (Bundestag) moves from Bonn to Berlin.
- 2000 – A Boeing 737-200 passenger plane belonging to Philippine Airlines crashes near the city of Davao (Philippines): 131 people are killed.
- 2002 – The death sentence of the leader of İBDA/C, Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, was upheld by the Supreme Court.
- 2005 – 78-year-old German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became the new Pope of the Catholic world. The new Pope, XVI. It was stated that he would use the name Benedict.
- 2009 – VIII. term parliamentary elections were held. The National Unity Party, which received 43.97% of the votes, received 26 deputies, and the Republican Turkish Party, which received 29.34%, 15 deputies. According to this result, the UBP alone had the majority to form the government.
- 2021 - NASA's Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first machine to fly on another planet (Mars).
Births
- 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Imperial Russian statesman, historian, philosopher and ethnographer (d. 1750)
- 1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
- 1793 – Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (d. 1875)
- 1814 – Amédée Achard, French poet and journalist (d. 1875)
- 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1867 - Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, Argentine doctor.
- 1882 Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
- 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian scientist and mathematician (d. 1953)
- 1886 – Hiroshi Ōshima, Japanese soldier and bureaucrat (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German Nazi politician and jurist (d. 1946)
- 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
- 1898 – Constance Alice Talmadge, American silent film actress (d. 1973)
- 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1899 – Cemal Tollu, Turkish painter (d. 1968)
- 1903 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (d. 1957)
- 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-born soldier and war novelist (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Erich Hartmann, II. Luftwaffe fighter fighter pilot in the Nazi Germany Air Force in World War II (d. 1993)
- 1925 Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
- 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian modern art painter
- 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1934 – Salvador Sánchez-Terán, Spanish politician (d. 2022)
- 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor and comedian (d. 2002)
- 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Flemish Belgian politician (d. 2013)
- 1937 – Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician and former actor
- 1944 – James Heckman, American economist
- 1944 – Cemalettin Sarar, Turkish businessman and Chairman of the Board of Sarar Giyim
- 1946 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 2006)
- 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor, voice actor and singer
- 1950 – Jacques Herzog, Swiss architect
- 1950 – Yuksel Uzel, Turkish voice artist
- 1954 – Trevor Francis, English football player and manager
- 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
- 1965 – Galip Öztürk, Turkish businessman and owner of Metro Group of Companies
- 1968 – III. Mswati, Esvatini king in office since 1986
- 1972 – Binnur Kaya, Turkish actress
- 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian football player
- 1974 – Başak Köklükaya, Turkish actress
- 1976 – Sertan Güriz, Turkish football player and coach
- 1978 – James Franco, American actor
- 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentine football player
- 1979 Kate Hudson, American producer, director, and actress
- 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
- 1981 – Dmitro Kuleba, Ukrainian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
- 1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
- 1982 – Kadir Doğulu, Turkish actress and model
- 1984 - Kelen Coleman, American actress
- 1984 – Lee Da-hae, South Korean-Australian actress
- 1985 – Nicolas Maurice-Belay, French football player
- 1986 – Alessio Alessandro, Belgian football player
- 1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player
- 1987 – Joe Hart, English football player
- 1987 – Mariya Sharapova, Russian tennis player
- 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
- 1988 – Luka Karabatić, French handball player
- 1989 – Simu Liu, Canadian actor
- 1990 – Denis Harmas, Ukrainian football player
- 1991 - Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
- 1991 – Russ Smith, American basketball player
- 1992 – Marko Todorović, Montenegrin basketball player
- 1992 – Marshmello, American DJ
- 1993 – Junior Barros, Brazilian football player
- 1994 – Khalid Kadyrov, Chechen football player
- 1995 – Elijah Bryant American basketball player
- 2001 – Deniz Selin Ünlüdağ, Turkish fencer
- 2002 - Loren Gray, Pennsylvania Internet phenomenon and singer
Deaths
- 65 – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright (b. 4 BC)
- 1054 – IX. Leo, 152nd Pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
- 1390 – II. Robert, King of Scotland (b. 1316)
- 1506 – Mark Antony Coccius Sabellicus, Venetian historian (b. 1436)
- 1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German philologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1497)
- 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyō (b. 1530)
- 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Venetian painter (b. 1528)
- 1689 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
- 1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter (b. 1697)
- 1824 – George Gordon Byron, English poet and author (b. 1788)
- 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer (b. 1765)
- 1878 – Władysław Tarnowski, Polish poet, playwright, pianist, and composer (b. 1836)
- 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (b. 1804)
- 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1885 – Nikolay Kostomarov, Russian and Ukrainian historian, writer, and poet (b. 1817)
- 1899 – Édouard Pailleron, French poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1834)
- 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1859)
- 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1839)
- 1916 – Colmar von der Goltz, German officer (ranked marshal in the Ottoman and German armies) (b. 1843)
- 1919 – Andrei Eberhardt, German-born Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy (b. 1859)
- 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- 1949 – Stephen Samuel Wise, Jewish rabbi and Zionist leader (b. 1874)
- 1958 – Haykanoush Danielyan, Armenian opera singer (b. 1893)
- 1959 – Wilhelm Nestle, German philosopher and linguist (b. 1865)
- 1963 – Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian philosopher (b. 1916)
- 1966 – Väinö Tanner, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1881)
- 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
- 1973 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-American lawyer (b. 1881)
- 1979 – Wilhelm Bittrich, German SS Obergruppenführer and Waffen-SS general (b. 1894)
- 1983 – Shahan Natali, Armenian writer (b. 1884)
- 1987 – Maxwell Taylor, American soldier and diplomat (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)
- 1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader and musician (b. 1959)
- 1993 – Sabahattin Kudret Aksal, Turkish poet, storyteller and playwright (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Turgut Boralı, Turkish cinema artist (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat, author, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 2004 – John Maynard Smith, British evolutionary biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Erkki Penttilä, Finnish wrestler (b. 1932)
- 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek-Italian film director (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Helen Walton, American businessman and Board Member of Walmart (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
- 2008 – Ayvaz Gökdemir, Turkish politician (b. 1942)
- 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist (b. 1907)
- 2009 – JG Ballard, English novelist (b. 1930)
- 2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German coach (b. 1944)
- 2010 – Guru (Keith Edward Elam), American rapper (b. 1961)
- 2011 – Ali Balkaya, Turkish football player (b. 1989)
- 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Levon Helm, American rock musician and member of The Band (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Ümit Ömer Sevinç, Turkish cook, educator and food expert (b. 1952)
- 2013 – Allan Franklin Arbus, American fashion photographer, television and film actor (b. 1918)
- 2013 – François Jacob, French biologist (b. 1920)
- 2015 – Oktay Sinanoğlu, Turkish quantum chemist and molecular biologist (b. 1934)
- 2016 – Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (b. 1994)
- 2016 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician and lawyer (b. 1918)
- 2016 – Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actor, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1964)
- 2016 – Walter Kohn, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (b. 1923)
- 2017 – Aaron Hernandez, American football player (b. 1989)
- 2017 – Bülent Kayabaş, Turkish cinema and theater artist (b. 1945)
- 2019 – Martin Böttcher, German soundtrack composer, arranger, lyricist and conductor (b. 1927)
- 2019 – Massimo Marino, Italian television producer and actor (b. 1960)
- 2019 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian racing cyclist (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Philippe Nahon, French actor (b. 1938)
- 2020 – Sergio Onofre Jarpa, Chilean politician (b. 1921)
- 2021 – Edward William Abel, British chemist (b. 1931)
- 2021 – Walter Mondale, American politician (b. 1928)
- 2021 – James Steinman, American composer, singer, songwriter, music producer, and playwright (b. 1947)
- 2022 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)