{"id":4331,"date":"2023-04-19T04:14:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:30:57","slug":"history-of-19-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-19-april\/","title":{"rendered":"History Of 19 April"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 19 April<\/h1>\n

1927<\/strong> – In China, Hankow communists declared war on Chaing Kai-shek.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt\u00a0issued a proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> – General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – Connecticut approved the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution after 148 years.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> – The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> – General Douglas MacArthur gave his “Old Soldiers” speech before the U.S. Congress after being relieved by U.S. President Truman. In the address General MacArthur said that “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> – Shigeki Tanaka won the Boston Marathon. Tanaka had survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> – Actress Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The civil ceremony took place on April 18.<\/p>\n

1958<\/strong> – The San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers played the first major league baseball game on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> – Baseball uniforms began displaying player’s names on their backs.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> –\u00a0Surveyor 3<\/i>\u00a0landed on the moon and began sending photos back to the U.S.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> – Russia launched the\u00a0Salyut<\/i>\u00a0into orbit around Earth. It was the first space station.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – India launched its first satellite with aid from the USSR.<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong> – Alex Haley received a special Pulitzer Prize for his book “Roots.”<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> – In Davao, Philippines, thirteen people were killed when members of the New People’s Army threw hand grenades into the Roman Catholic cathedral during Easter services.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – NASA named Sally Ride to be first woman astronaut.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – NASA named Guion S. Bluford Jr. as the first African-American astronaut.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> – The U.S. announced a ban on U.S. tourist and business travel to Cuba. The U.S. charged the Cuban government with subversion in Central America.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – In Phoenix, AZ, skydiver Gregory Robertson went into a 200-mph free-fall to save an unconscious colleague 3,500 feet from the ground.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> – The last California condor known to be in the wild was captured and placed in a breeding program at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – A gun turret exploded aboard the\u00a0USS Iowa<\/i>. 47 sailors were killed.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> – In El Salvador, Attorney General Alvadora was killed by a car bomb.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> – A Los Angeles jury awarded $3.8 million to Rodney King for violation of his civil rights.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – Wang Dan, a leader of 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, was freed by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – The Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – Letters written by Greta Garbo were put on exhibit. The letters were made public ten years after Garbo’s death.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> – In the Philippines, Air Philippines GAP 541 crashed while preparing to land. 131 people were killed.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> – The\u00a0USS Cole<\/i>\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’s al-Qaida network.<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is\u00a0elected\u00a0to the papacy and becomes\u00a0Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fidel Castro\u00a0resigns as\u00a0First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba\u00a0after holding the title since July 1961.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor, and producer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Martin Havl\u00e1t, Czech ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Hibberd, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Troy Polamalu, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Filip J\u00edcha, Czech handball player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan-American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zach Duke, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joe Mauer, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Patrick Plains, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Christopher Pearce, English cricketer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jan Zimmermann, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Candace Parker, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Will Thursfield, English-Australian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Joe Hart, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maria Sharapova, a Russian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Enrique Esqueda, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dominik Mader, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Sam Tordoff, English racing driver<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daisuke Watanabe, Japanese footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Genoveva A\u00f1onma, Equatoguinean footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0H\u00e9ctor Herrera, Mexican footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kim Him-chan, South Korean singer and dancer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ayaka Takahashi, Japanese badminton player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Damien Le Tallec, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Patrick Wiegers, German footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Steve Cook, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lia W\u00e4lti, Swiss footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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