Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19
This is a list of selected April 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Saint Alphege -
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Primrose Day in London | stub |
| 1810 – An expanded municipal government of Caracas deposed Captain General Vicente Emparán and established the First Republic of Venezuela. | needs more footnotes |
| 1839 – The signing of the Treaty of London formally recognised Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | unreferenced section |
| 1903 - A anti-Jewish riot took place in Chişinău, Bessarabia, causing the death of fifty Jews. | needs more footnotes |
| 1904 – A fire destroyed downtown Toronto, destroying 104 buildings and causing CAN$10,350,000 in damage. | one source, no footnotes |
| 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly became Princess consort of Monaco upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. | refimprove sections |
| 2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1012 – After refusing to allow himself to be ransomed for his freedom by his Viking captors, Alphege was beaten to death in Greenwich, now a suburb of London, the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death.
- 1713 – With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the Habsburg lands.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
- 1782 – The States-General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in the Hague became the first United States embassy.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The first bloodshed of the war took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the German occupation.
- 1971 – The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
- 1989 – A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors.
- 1995 – A car bomb destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring over 800 others.
Notes
- The midnight ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott is listed on April 18, so Battles of Lexington and Concord should not appear in the same year
April 19: Feast of Saint Alphege (Western Christianity); Holy Saturday (Christianity, 2014)
- 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Gaius Calpurnius Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
- 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from the field of battle that evening.
- 1960 – Students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest (pictured) against President Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
- 1984 – Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick's "Advance Australia Fair", a patriotic song that was first performed in 1878, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.
- 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Mount Carmel Center, the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect outside Waco, Texas, ended when a fire broke out, killing over 70 people.