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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A soup kitchen for women in the Warsaw GhettoA soup kitchen for women in the Warsaw Ghetto
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The USS Iowa firing one of its turrets before the April 19, 1989 tragedyThe USS Iowa firing one of its turrets before the April 19, 1989 tragedy
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The USS Iowa firing one of its turrets before the April 19, 1989 tragedy
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
|---|---|
| 1839 – The signing of the Treaty of London formally recognised Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | refimprove |
| 1904 – A fire destroyed downtown Toronto, destroying 104 buildings and causing CAN$10,350,000 in damage. | one source, no footnotes, stubby |
| 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly became Princess consort of Monaco upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against President Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. | unreferenced section |
| 1971 – The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR. | needs more footnotes |
| 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Mount Carmel Center, the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect outside Waco, Texas, US, ended when a fire broke out, killing over 70 people. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave. | Tagged with ((original research)) and ((synthesis)) |
Eligible
- 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.
- 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.
- 1989 – A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors.
Notes
- The midnight ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott is listed on April 18; better to avoid having that and Battles of Lexington and Concord appear consecutively.
April 19: Feast of Saint Alphege (Western Christianity)
- 1012 – After refusing to allow himself to be ransomed for his freedom by his Viking captors, Alphege (pictured) was beaten to death in Greenwich, now a suburb of London, the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death.
- 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.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the Nazi occupation.
- 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.
- 1995 – A car bomb destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US, killing 168 people and injuring over 800 others.