{"id":20055,"date":"2020-04-19T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:09:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T09:39:18","slug":"history-of-19-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-19-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 19 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 19 April<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; The Branch-Davidian\u2019s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King for violation of his civil rights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Wang Dan, a leader of 1989 Tienanmen Square pro democracy protests, was freed by the Chinese government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; The Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Letters written by Greta Garbo were put on exhibit. The letters were made public ten years after Garbo&#8217;s death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; In the Philippines, Air Philippines GAP 541 crashed while preparing to land. 131 people were killed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0<em>USS Cole<\/em>\u00a0was relaunched. In Yemen, 17 sailors were killed when the ship was attacked by terrorists on October 12, 2000. The attack was blamed on Osama bin Laden&#8217;s al-Qaida network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is\u00a0elected\u00a0to the papacy and becomes\u00a0Pope Benedict XVI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fidel Castro\u00a0resigns as\u00a0First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba\u00a0after holding the title since July 1961.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Boston Marathon bombing\u00a0suspect\u00a0Tamerlan Tsarnaev\u00a0is killed in a shootout with police. His brother\u00a0Dzhokhar\u00a0is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of\u00a0Watertown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Martin Havl\u00e1t, Czech ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Hibberd, English cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Troy Polamalu, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Filip J\u00edcha, Czech handball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan-American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zach Duke, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joe Mauer, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Patrick Platins, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christopher Pearce, English cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jan Zimmermann, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Candace Parker, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joe Hart, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer-songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Enrique Esqueda, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dominik Mader, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Genoveva A\u00f1onma, Equatoguinean footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0H\u00e9ctor Herrera, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ayaka Takahashi, Japanese badminton player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steve Cook, English footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 19 April 1993 &#8211; The Branch-Davidian\u2019s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire. 1994 &#8211; A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1168,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-20055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-19-april","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5dt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20057,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions\/20057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}