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1539Apr 19Emperor Charles V reached a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.
1600Apr 19The Dutch ship Liefde, piloted by Will Adams, reached Japan with a crew of 24 men. 6 of the crew soon died. 4 other ships in the expedition were lost.
1689Apr 19Residents of Boston ousted their governor, Edmond Andros.
1763Apr 19Teedyuscung, a Lenape Indian, burned to death while sleeping in his cabin in the Wyoming Valley, Pa. The fire destroyed the whole Indian village. A few days later settlers from Connecticut arrived to resume their construction of a town.
1768Apr 19Canaletto (b.1697), Venetian printmaker and landscape painter, died.
1782Apr 19Netherlands recognized the United States.
1802Apr 19Spain reopened the New Orleans port to American merchants.
1819Apr 19The USS Alabama and Louisiana destroyed a pirate base at the Patterson’s Town Raid on Breton Island, Louisiana.
1864Apr 19Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, France: USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama.
1880Apr 19The Times war correspondent telephoned a report of the battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news was sent from a field of battle in this manner.
1897Apr 19The first Boston Marathon was run from Ashland, Mass., to Boston. Winner John J. McDermott ran the course in 2 hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds.
1906Apr 19Pierre Curie, French physicist, chemist (Nobel 1903), died. Curie, was hit by a truck and killed as he crossed a street in Paris.
1913Apr 19California passed the Webb Bill, excluding Japanese from owning land. It was signed into law on May 19, 1913.
1925Apr 19Hugh O’Brian, [Krampke], actor (Wyatt Earp), was born in Rochester, NY
1934Apr 19Shirley Temple appeared in her first movie.
1936Apr 19Clarence Darrow. Lawyer and social reformer Clarence Darrow voiced the opinion that “There is no such thing as justice””in or out of court” in an interview for the New York Times.
1939Apr 19Connecticut finally approved Bill of Rights.
1943Apr 19Willy Graf, Kurt Huber and Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighters, were beheaded.
1949Apr 19The Foreign Assistance Act authorized $5.43 billion for the European Recovery Program.
1951Apr 19Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his command by President Truman, bid farewell to Congress, quoting a line from a ballad: “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
1964Apr 19There was a rightist coup in Laos. Suvanna Phuma remained premier.
1967Apr 19Katherine Switzer (b.1947) ran in the Boston Marathon registered under the name K. Switzer. Up to this time women were not allowed to register for the race.
1969Apr 19In Ithaca N.Y. some 80 armed, militant black students at Cornell Univ. took over Willard Straight Hall. They demanded a black studies program and cut a deal with frightened administrators for total amnesty. In 1999 Donald Alexander Downs described the events in his book: “Cornell ’69″\
1977Apr 19Alex Haley received a special Pulitzer Prize for his book “Roots.”
1987Apr 19The last free-flying condor in California, a 19-pound, 7-year-old male, was captured. He was released in 2002.
1988Apr 19Republican George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis handily won the New York presidential primaries.
1993Apr 19South Dakota Gov. George S. Mickelson (52) died in an Iowa plane crash.
1995Apr 19J. Peter Grace Jr. (81), CEO (W R Grace), died.
1998Apr 19In Madison, Wi., Salim Amara doused a fellow passenger on a city bus with gasoline and ignited a fire burning himself and others severely.
1999Apr 19The 103rd Boston Marathon was won by Joseph Chebet of Kenya in 2h:9m:52s. Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won the women’s category in 2:23:25.
2000Apr 19In the Brittany region of France a bomb exploded in a McDonald’s restaurant in Dinan and one worker was killed.
2001Apr 19The musical “The Producers” opened on Broadway.
2002Apr 19US and British planes bombed Iraqi air defense systems in response to anti-aircraft fire.
2003Apr 19Striking Nigerian oil workers took about 100 foreign workers hostage on several offshore oil installations.
2005Apr 19The US government sacked its one-size-fits-all food pyramid in favor of a dozen different guides geared to individual nutritional needs and lifestyles.
2006Apr 19White House press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation as part of a shake-up of President George W. Bush’s senior aides. White House political mastermind Karl Rove surrendered his role as chief policy coordinator.
2006Apr 19In Kyrgyzstan Pres. Bakiyev threatened to expel American troops from the Central Asian nation unless the US agrees to pay more for its military presence.
2007Apr 19The DJIA rose 4.79 to a record 12,808.63. Nasdaq fell 5.15 to 2,505.
2007Apr 19The heads of seven men who were kidnapped by Muslim extremists on a volatile southern island were delivered to a Philippine army detachment. The men, six road project workers and a dried-fish factory worker, were kidnapped at gunpoint in two separate incidents April 16 near the town of Parang. A group of civilians was ordered to take the heads to Parang by Muslim rebel commander Habier Malik.
2008Apr 19In northern Kazakhstan a Soyuz capsule, carrying South Korean bioengineer Yi So-yeon, American astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko, landed 260 miles off its mark.
2009Apr 19In Arizona Doug Georgianni (51) was shot and killed while collecting data from a traffic enforcement camera inside an SUV in Phoenix. The next day police arrested Thomas Patrick Destories (68) on 1st degree murder charges.
2010Apr 19Indonesia’s Constitutional Court ruled 8-1 that a 45-year-old law banning religious blasphemy was constitutional. The law limited officially recognized religions to six: Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam and Protestantism. Up to 5 years in prison could be imposed for anyone found guilty of heresy.
2011Apr 19In India a helicopter hit a wall and burst into flames as it was trying to land in the remote northeast, killing at least 17 people.
2012Apr 19The US military said 2 ethnic Uighur men from western China, held for almost a decade without charge at Guantanamo Bay, have been resettled in El Salvador.
2013Apr 19The US’s annual global human rights report was issued by the State Department. It said China had imposed new registration requirements to prevent groups from emerging that might challenge government authority.
2014Apr 19In Algeria 11 soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded in an ambush in the restive Kabylie region east of Algiers. On May 1al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility.
Source: Timelines of History 

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