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Today in History

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843Apr 19Judith, French empress, 2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, died.
1524Apr 19Pope Clemens VII fired the Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly.
1529Apr 19The 2nd Parliament of Speyer banned Lutheranism. At the Diet of Speyer the Lutheran minority protested against restrictions on their teachings and were called “Protestant” for the first time.
1539Apr 19Emperor Charles V reached a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.
1587Apr 19Sir Frances Drake sailed into Cadiz, Spain, and sank the Spanish fleet.
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.
1666Apr 19Sarah Kembel Knight, diarist, was born.
1689Apr 19Residents of Boston ousted their governor, Edmond Andros.
1721Apr 19Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born.
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.
1764Apr 19The English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money.
1768Apr 19Canaletto (b.1697), Venetian printmaker and landscape painter, died.
1770Apr 19Capt. James Cook first saw Australia.
1774Apr 19Gluck’s opera “Iphigenia in Aulis,” premiered in Paris.
1782Apr 19Netherlands recognized the United States.
1794Apr 19Tadeusz Kosciusko forced Russians out of Warsaw.
1798Apr 19Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, was born.
1802Apr 19Spain reopened the New Orleans port to American merchants.
1813Apr 19Benjamin Rush (67), physician, revolutionary (signed Declaration of Independence), died.
1819Apr 19The USS Alabama and Louisiana destroyed a pirate base at the Patterson’s Town Raid on Breton Island, Louisiana.
1824Apr 19George Gordon, (6th Baron Byron, b.1788) aka Lord Byron, English poet, died of malaria in Greece at Missolonghi on the gulf of Patras preparing to fight for Greek independence. In 1999 Benita Eisler published the biography “Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame.” In 2002 Fiona MacCarthy authored “Byron: Life and Legend.” In 2009 Edna O’Brien authored “Byron in Love.”
1832Apr 19Lucretia Rudolph, President Garfield’s first lady, was born.
1861Apr 19President Lincoln ordered the blockade of Confederate ports.
1862Apr 19Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer, died.
1864Apr 19Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, France: USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama.
1868Apr 19Paul P. Harris, founder of the Rotary Club, was born in Racine, Wisconsin.
1877Apr 19Ole Evinrude, inventor of the outboard marine engine, was born.
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.
1881Apr 19Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British PM (1868, 1874-1880), novelist, died.
1882Apr 19Charles R. Darwin (b.1809), English naturalist (Origin of Species), died at Downe, England, at age 73. In 1995 Janet Browne authored “Voyaging” the 1st of her 3-part biography. In 2002 her 2nd volume “The Power of Place” was published.
1893Apr 19The Oscar Wilde play “A Woman of No Importance” opened at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
1894Apr 19Jules Massenet’s opera “Werther,” premiered in NYC.
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.
1898Apr 19Congress passed a resolution recognizing Cuban independence and demanding that Spain relinquish authority over Cuba. President McKinley was also authorized to use military force to put the resolution into effect.
1900Apr 19Richard Hughes, English novelist and playwright (A High Wind in Jamaica), was born.
1903Apr 19Eliot Ness, Treasury agent, was born. He fought for prohibition in Chicago, Ill.
1904Apr 19Much of Toronto was destroyed by fire.
1905Apr 19Tom Hopkinson, British writer, was born.
1906Apr 19Pierre Curie, French physicist, chemist (Nobel 1903), died. Curie, was hit by a truck and killed as he crossed a street in Paris.
1909Apr 19The new Orpheum Theater opened in San Francisco, Ca.
1910Apr 19After weeks of being viewed through telescopes, Halley’s Comet was reported visible to the naked eye in Curacao.
1912Apr 19Glenn T. Seaborg, first head of Atomic Energy Commission, was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1951 for co-discovering Plutonium.
1913Apr 19San Francisco’s Chinatown was put under a partial blockade following the killing of Lem Foon by Bing Kong tong highbinders. The blockade was the 2nd of its kind in as many years
1914Apr 19Charles Sanders Peirce (b.1839), American polymath, philosopher and scientist, died in Milford, Pa. In 1883 he used randomization in a psychological experiment at Johns Hopkins Univ.
1922Apr 19Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot who later downed 352 Russian aircrafts, was born.
1924Apr 19The “National Barn Dance” premiered on WLS in Chicago.
1925Apr 19Hugh O’Brian, [Krampke], actor (Wyatt Earp), was born in Rochester, NY.
1927Apr 19Rudolf Friml’s “Vagabond King” opened in London.
1933Apr 19Etheridge Knight, poet, was born.
1934Apr 19Shirley Temple appeared in her first movie.
1935Apr 19Dudley Moore (d.2002), film actor, comedian and musician, was born in Dagenham, East London.
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
1938Apr 19General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1939Apr 19Connecticut finally approved Bill of Rights.
1943Apr 19Willy Graf, Kurt Huber and Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighters, were beheaded.
1945Apr 19The Rodgers and Hammerstein adopted Ferenc Molnar’s “Lilliom” and produced the musical “Carousel” on Broadway.
1946Apr 19Tim Curry, actor (Rocky Horror Show), was born in Cheshire, England.
1947Apr 19Murray Perahia, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988), was born in NYC.
1949Apr 19Paloma Picasso, [Gilot], actress (Immoral Tales), was born Paris, France.
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.”
1956Apr 19In Spain 12 people died and about 70 were injured following earthquakes in the southern Granada region.
1957Apr 19Charles Funk (76), Encyclopedist (Funk & Wagnall’s), died.
1958Apr 19The last Key System train left Oakland for SF. Ferry service from the Ferry Building ended the next day when the Southern Pacific “Eureka” made its last crossing from SF to Oakland.
1960Apr 19Baseball uniforms began displaying player’s names on their backs.
1961Apr 19Howard Anderson was executed in Cuba after being convicted of arms smuggling to anti-Communist rebels.
1964Apr 19There was a rightist coup in Laos. Suvanna Phuma remained premier.
1965Apr 19At a cost of $20,000, the outer Houston Astrodome ceiling was painted because of sun’s glare. This in turn caused the grass to die.
1966Apr 19Lt. Lee Aaron Adams of Willits, Ca., was killed when his F-105D Thunderchief fighter plane was shot down in North Vietnam. His remains were returned home in 2005. During 1966 the US Air Force lost 126 Thunderchiefs.
1967Apr 19Conrad Adenauer (b.1876), West Germany chancellor (1949-63), died.
1968Apr 19Ralph S. Plaisted (1927- 2008), insurance salesman turned explorer, reached the North Pole by snowmobile with 3 other men. This was the first expedition to indisputably reach the North Pole.
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.”
1971Apr 19The Soviet Union launched Salyut 1, the world’s first space station into orbit.
1972Apr 19The Broadway production Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” opened at the Playhouse Theatre, where it ran for two months before transferring to the Edison. It had a total run of 1065 performances. The cast included Grant, Alex Bradford, and Hope Clarke.
1975Apr 19India announced it had launched its 1st satellite, from the Soviet Union atop a Soviet rocket.
1977Apr 19Alex Haley received a special Pulitzer Prize for his book “Roots.”
1982Apr 19Astronauts Sally K. Ride and Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first woman and first African-American to be tapped by NASA for U.S. space missions.
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.
1989Apr 19Daphne Du Maurier (82), English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), died.
1990Apr 19Nicaragua’s nine-year-old civil war appeared near an end as Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas and the incoming government agreed to a truce and a deadline for the rebels to disarm.
1991Apr 19Evander Holyfield won a unanimous decision over George Foreman to retain boxing’s heavyweight title in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1992Apr 19After six days, engineers plugged the tunnel leak under the Chicago River that caused an underground flood that had virtually shut down business in the heart of the city.
1993Apr 19South Dakota Gov. George S. Mickelson (52) died in an Iowa plane crash.
1994Apr 19A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to beaten motorist Rodney King.
1995Apr 19In Spain a failed ETA car-bomb attempted to kill conservative opposition leader and future Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
1996Apr 19On the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, hundreds of mourners paused for 168 seconds of silence at the site where the federal building once stood.
1997Apr 19In Newton, New Jersey, Giorgio Gallara, a Pizza shop owner, and employee Jeremy Giordano, were killed after being lured to an abandoned house. [see Apr 21]
1998Apr 19In Arizona grasshoppers by the millions descended on communities along the lower Colorado River.
1999Apr 19The US Supreme Court ruled that a federal law aimed at limiting e-mail smut does not violate free-speech rights.
2000Apr 19President Clinton knelt among 168 empty chairs memorializing each victim of the Oklahoma City bombing and declared the site “sacred ground” in the soul of America during a fifth-anniversary dedication ceremony.
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 19In northeast Pennsylvania Hadley Bilger (13) was abducted by her uncle after he shot and killed her parents. Bilger was released the next day and Robert Lee Hixson (42) surrendered to police.
2004Apr 19In the Boston Marathon Timothy Cherigat of Kenya won for the men at 2:10:37; Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won for the women at 2:24:27.
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 19The US government released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Nearly all 558 on the list were labeled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.
2007Apr 19US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered a bleak assessment of Iraq, saying the war was “lost,” triggering an angry backlash by Republicans.
2008Apr 19In NYC Pope Benedict XVI preached in St. Patrick’s cathedral, assuring priests and nuns that he was close to them as they battled the damage left by the clergy sex scandal.
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 19In Oregon Jorge Ortiz-Oliva (40), the kingpin of one of the biggest drug organizations in Oregon history, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2011Apr 19It was reported that a US Department of Justice test of the CelleBrite UFED used by Michigan police found the device could grab all of the photos and video off of an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes. The device works with 3000 different phone models and can even defeat password protections.
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 1 al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility.
Source: Timelines of History     

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