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 109^th 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, 484,728 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 ‘hectaenneagon’ 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 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.

April 19 Historical Events

• 1012 –
  Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
• 1770 –
  Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• 1892 –
  Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1942 –
  World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1954 –
  The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
• 1971 –
  Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• 1971 –
  Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• 1975 –
  India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
• 1997 –
  The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
• 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?

• 1603 –
  Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
• 1900 –
  Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General (1967-1974) (d. 1991)
• 1925 –
  Hugh O'Brian, American actor
• 1934 –
  Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
• 1940 –
  Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1942 –
  Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
• 1954 –
  Trevor Francis, English footballer
• 1957 –
  Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
• 1969 –
  Andrew Carnie, Linguistics professor at the University of Arizona
• 1983 –
  Zack Duke, American baseball player

Who died on April 19?

• 1390 –
  King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
• 1560 –
  Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
• 1618 –
  Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist
• 1751 –
  Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian field marshal (b. 1678)
• 1892 –
  T. Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
• 1914 –
  Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
• 1937 –
  William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
• 1960 –
  Beardsley Ruml, American economist and tax plan author (b. 1894)
• 2004 –
  Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)