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Events on the 19th of April in history

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19 Apr 2065 The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
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19 Apr 0531 Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
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19 Apr 0607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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19 Apr 0797 Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus.
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19 Apr 1012 Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
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19 Apr 1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
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19 Apr 1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-General French Van de Holly
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19 Apr 1529 Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
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19 Apr 1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
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19 Apr 1539 Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt.
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19 Apr 1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
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19 Apr 1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
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19 Apr 1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
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19 Apr 1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
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19 Apr 1608 In Ireland O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
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19 Apr 1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
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19 Apr 1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
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19 Apr 1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).
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19 Apr 1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions
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19 Apr 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
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19 Apr 1770 Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
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19 Apr 1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
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19 Apr 1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
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19 Apr 1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis, " premieres in Paris
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19 Apr 1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis", premieres in Paris France
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19 Apr 1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
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19 Apr 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
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19 Apr 1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
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19 Apr 1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
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19 Apr 1782 Netherlands recognizes US
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19 Apr 1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
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19 Apr 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
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19 Apr 1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
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19 Apr 1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor", premieres in St Petersburg
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19 Apr 1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
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19 Apr 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
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19 Apr 1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom and Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
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19 Apr 1852 California Historical Society forms
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19 Apr 1853 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
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19 Apr 1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
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19 Apr 1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
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19 Apr 1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
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19 Apr 1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
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19 Apr 1863 Union troops / fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
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19 Apr 1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
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19 Apr 1865 Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
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19 Apr 1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
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19 Apr 1877 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
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19 Apr 1877 The opera "Les Cloches de Corneville" is produced (Paris France)
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19 Apr 1890 Henry Morton Stanley is inaugurated in Brussels
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19 Apr 1892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
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19 Apr 1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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19 Apr 1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther", premieres in NYC
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19 Apr 1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
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19 Apr 1897 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
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19 Apr 1897 Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
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19 Apr 1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
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19 Apr 1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pell
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19 Apr 1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Massachusetts in 2:42:00
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19 Apr 1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Massachusetts in 2:54:38
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19 Apr 1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phillies beat Braves 19-17 in 10
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19 Apr 1901 James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6)
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19 Apr 1901 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
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19 Apr 1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of New York in 2:43:12
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19 Apr 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
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19 Apr 1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of New York in 2:38:04.4
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19 Apr 1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
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19 Apr 1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of New York in 2:38:25.4
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19 Apr 1906 San Francisco earthquake ends killing 452
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19 Apr 1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Massachusetts in 2:45:45
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19 Apr 1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
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19 Apr 1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
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19 Apr 1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8
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19 Apr 1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint
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19 Apr 1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
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19 Apr 1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
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19 Apr 1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play", premieres in London
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19 Apr 1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2
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19 Apr 1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minnesota in 2:25:14.8
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19 Apr 1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
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19 Apr 1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
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19 Apr 1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
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19 Apr 1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Massachusetts in 2:27:16.4
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19 Apr 1916 Italians troops conquer Colonel di Lana at Merano
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19 Apr 1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of New York in 2:28:37.2
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19 Apr 1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
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19 Apr 1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
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19 Apr 1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Massachusetts in 2:29:13.4
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19 Apr 1919 Andr
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19 Apr 1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
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19 Apr 1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall
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19 Apr 1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
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19 Apr 1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of New Jersey in 2:18:57.6
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19 Apr 1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
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19 Apr 1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
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19 Apr 1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
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19 Apr 1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
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19 Apr 1927 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
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19 Apr 1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
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19 Apr 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
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19 Apr 1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
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19 Apr 1928 New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
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19 Apr 1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
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19 Apr 1930 Clarence DeMar wins his 7th Boston Marathon
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19 Apr 1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:34:48.2
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19 Apr 1932 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
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19 Apr 1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
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19 Apr 1933 FDR announces US will leave the gold standard
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19 Apr 1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
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19 Apr 1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
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19 Apr 1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
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19 Apr 1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
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19 Apr 1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of Rhode Island in 2:35:34.8
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19 Apr 1938 Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
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19 Apr 1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
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19 Apr 1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of Rhode Island in 2:28:51.8
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19 Apr 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
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19 Apr 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY
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19 Apr 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
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19 Apr 1941 Bertolt Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder", premieres in Z
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19 Apr 1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
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19 Apr 1941 Milk rationed in Holland
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19 Apr 1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
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19 Apr 1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Massachusetts in 2:26:51.2
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19 Apr 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
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19 Apr 1943 World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
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19 Apr 1943 Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
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19 Apr 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
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19 Apr 1944 Gerard Cote wins his 2nd straight & 3rd career Boston Marathon
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19 Apr 1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
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19 Apr 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
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19 Apr 1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
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19 Apr 1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Massachusetts in 2:30:40.2
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19 Apr 1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid
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19 Apr 1946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
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19 Apr 1947 Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39)
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19 Apr 1947 AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
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19 Apr 1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39
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19 Apr 1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
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19 Apr 1947 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montr
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19 Apr 1948 Burma joins the United Nations.
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19 Apr 1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot
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19 Apr 1948 ABC-TV network begins
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19 Apr 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
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19 Apr 1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
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19 Apr 1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
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19 Apr 1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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19 Apr 1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
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19 Apr 1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
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19 Apr 1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
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19 Apr 1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
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19 Apr 1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
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19 Apr 1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
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19 Apr 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
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19 Apr 1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Apr 1954 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
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19 Apr 1954 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
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19 Apr 1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
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19 Apr 1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
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19 Apr 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
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19 Apr 1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (civil ceremony)
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19 Apr 1956 1st major league baseball game in New Jersey, Dodgers beat Phillies in Roosevelt Stadium
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19 Apr 1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
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19 Apr 1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
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19 Apr 1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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19 Apr 1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
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19 Apr 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
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19 Apr 1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
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19 Apr 1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
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19 Apr 1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
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19 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
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19 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
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19 Apr 1963 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
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19 Apr 1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58
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19 Apr 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
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19 Apr 1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
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19 Apr 1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma", premieres in West-Berlin
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19 Apr 1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
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19 Apr 1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
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19 Apr 1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
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19 Apr 1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die and eventually led to the installation of Astroturf
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19 Apr 1966 Roberta Bignay becomes the 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
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19 Apr 1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
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19 Apr 1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chicago
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19 Apr 1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
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19 Apr 1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
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19 Apr 1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon
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19 Apr 1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
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19 Apr 1967 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
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19 Apr 1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4
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19 Apr 1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Conn in 2:22:17
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19 Apr 1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot (1st American to win since 1957) of Connecticut in 2:22:17
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19 Apr 1968 Belgian construction workers strike
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19 Apr 1968 National League owners approve expansion for 2 new teams
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19 Apr 1969 "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn win 51st Academy Awards
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19 Apr 1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 performances
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19 Apr 1970 24th Tony Awards Borstal Boy & Applause win
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19 Apr 1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
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19 Apr 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate–LaBianca murders.
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19 Apr 1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
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19 Apr 1971 Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin "Operation Dewey Canyon III", a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
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19 Apr 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
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19 Apr 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)
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19 Apr 1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
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19 Apr 1971 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45
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19 Apr 1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
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19 Apr 1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
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19 Apr 1972 Hungary revises constitution
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19 Apr 1972 Micki Grant's musical "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 performances
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19 Apr 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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19 Apr 1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"
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19 Apr 1973 The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
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19 Apr 1973 George Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
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19 Apr 1974 Baltimore Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park homerun against the New York Yankees
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19 Apr 1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of the USSR
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19 Apr 1975 India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
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19 Apr 1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wisconsin in 2:47:10
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19 Apr 1976 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Washington DC in 2:20:19
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19 Apr 1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel
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19 Apr 1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage and Cliff
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19 Apr 1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
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19 Apr 1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
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19 Apr 1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yankees Goose Gossage & Cliff Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
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19 Apr 1981 Oakland Athletics runs record to 11-0
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19 Apr 1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf
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19 Apr 1981 Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)
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19 Apr 1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos", premieres in NYC
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19 Apr 1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
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19 Apr 1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
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19 Apr 1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
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19 Apr 1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33
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19 Apr 1982 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oregon in 2:08:51
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19 Apr 1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
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19 Apr 1983 France performs nuclear test
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19 Apr 1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
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19 Apr 1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)
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19 Apr 1985 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
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19 Apr 1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
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19 Apr 1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
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19 Apr 1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Apr 1987 Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 and record 12th straight AL win
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19 Apr 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
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19 Apr 1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record (124.902 mph)
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19 Apr 1987 Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
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19 Apr 1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201 on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka vs New Zealand)
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19 Apr 1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
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19 Apr 1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
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19 Apr 1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
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19 Apr 1987 Milwaukee Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight American League win
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19 Apr 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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19 Apr 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
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19 Apr 1989 Kevin Elster (New York Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
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19 Apr 1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
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19 Apr 1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas and incoming government agree to truce
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19 Apr 1990 Detroit Pistons & Philadelphia 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 in fines (an NBA record)
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19 Apr 1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
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19 Apr 1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce in Nicaragua's civil war
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19 Apr 1991 Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
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19 Apr 1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Apr 1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
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19 Apr 1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 performances
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19 Apr 1992 Balki and Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
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19 Apr 1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
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19 Apr 1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
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19 Apr 1993 Branch Davidians in Waco Texas commit suicide after 51 day siege
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19 Apr 1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
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19 Apr 1993 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
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19 Apr 1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
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19 Apr 1993 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
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19 Apr 1993 Branch Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
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19 Apr 1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
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19 Apr 1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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19 Apr 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
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19 Apr 1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
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19 Apr 1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
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19 Apr 1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
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19 Apr 1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Okla City, kills 168 and injures 500
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19 Apr 1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
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19 Apr 1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news
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19 Apr 1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 & injures 500
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19 Apr 1996 Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles
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19 Apr 1996 South Africa defeats Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
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19 Apr 1997 The 1997 Red River Flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
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19 Apr 1997 Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
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19 Apr 1997 San Diego Padres & St Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
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19 Apr 1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship
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19 Apr 1998 Wins City of Hope Golf Classic
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19 Apr 1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
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19 Apr 2000 Security guard David Sanes killed in accidental bombing in Vieques, Puerto Rico that resulted in U.S. Navy closing down its bombing range there.
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19 Apr 2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
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19 Apr 2013 Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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