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 109th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 6, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,745,020,800 seconds 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 ‘hectaenneagon’ day.
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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 304 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 4,502 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.
- 1770 –Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
- 1948 –Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
- 1950 –Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1956 –Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 1971 –Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
- 1975 –India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
- 1987 –The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
- 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.
Who were born on April 19?
- 1897 –Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
- 1937 –Elinor Donahue, American actress
- 1949 –Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (d. 1993)
- 1951 –Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
- 1951 –Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- 1953 –Ruby Wax, American comedian
- 1981 –Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
- 1985 –Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
- 1986 –Candace Parker, American basketball player
- 1986 –Will Thursfield, British footballer
Who died on April 19?
- 1588 –Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
- 1684 –Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
- 1689 –Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
- 1751 –Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian field marshal (b. 1678)
- 1949 –Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
- 2000 –Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
- 2004 –John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
- 2007 –Helen Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
- 2008 –Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
- 2008 –Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
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