Today in History: Shirley Temple Played Her First Role in the Movie Stand Up and Cheer

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)