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
- 1587 –Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1892 –Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1919 –Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
- 1942 –World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 1956 –Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 1971 –Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1971 –Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 1989 –A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 1993 –South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
Who were born on April 19?
- 1665 –Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
- 1721 –Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
- 1925 –Hugh O'Brian, American actor
- 1932 –Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
- 1935 –Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
- 1941 –Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
- 1946 –Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
- 1948 –Rick Miller, American baseball player
- 1975 –Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
- 1985 –Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
Who died on April 19?
- 1054 –Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
- 1627 –John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
- 1768 –Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- 1791 –Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1882 –Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1892 –T. Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
- 1966 –Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
- 1997 –El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
- 2005 –Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
- 2007 –Helen Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
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