What are the important events that happened on April 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 19 is the 110th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 6, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,968 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 285 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,137 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 19 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1587 –Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
- 1770 –Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- 1945 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
- 1954 –The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 1971 –Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
- 1985 –FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
- 1993 –South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
- 1999 –The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
- 2005 –His Eminence Joseph Cardinal 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.
Who were born on April 19?
- 1894 –Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
- 1897 –Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1907 –Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
- 1928 –Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
- 1948 –Rick Miller, American baseball player
- 1951 –Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
- 1960 –Frank Viola, American baseball player
- 1962 –Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
- 1985 –Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
- 1990 –Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
Who died on April 19?
- 1012 –Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
- 1686 –Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
- 1824 –George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- 1930 –Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
- 1950 –Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
- 1989 –Dame Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
- 2004 –Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
- 2005 –George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
- 2008 –Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
- 2010 –Keith “Guru” Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
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