Friday, April 19, 2013

This Day in History, April 19

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

607 - Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth

1012 - Aelfheah was murdered by Danes who had been ravaging the south of England. Aelfhear became the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1005.  Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.

1451 - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne 1524 - Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly

1529 - The second Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism

1012 - Aelfheah was murdered by Danes who had been ravaging the south of England. Aelfhear became the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1005.

1539 - Emperor Charles V reached a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.

1587 - English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor and sank the Spanish fleet.

1591 - Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France

1713 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which gave women the rights of succession to Hapsburg possessions.

1764 - The English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money.

1770 - Captain James Cook glimpses the shores of Australi for the first time. Specifically, he sees New South Wales, which he originally named Point Hicks.

1775 - Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon. Ultimately, however, the famous "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, starting the American Revolution.

1782 - The Netherlands recognized the new United States. John Adams secures official recognition by the Netherlands of the new United States as an independent government, and the house that he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy.

1794 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko forced the Russians out of Warsaw.

1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.

1824 - Lord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.

1839 - Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom, and Luxembourg as a Grand Duchy

1861 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe sailed 900 miles in nine hours in a hot air balloon from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Unionville, South Carolina.

1861 - American. President Abraham Lincoln ordered a blockade of Confederate ports.

1882 - Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.

1892 - Charles Duryea drives the first ever American-made automobile in Massachusetts

1927 - In China, Hankow communists declared war on Chaing Kai-shek.

1932 - President Herbert Hoover suggested the idea of a 5 day work week

1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that  the United States would go off the gold standard.

1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege

1941 - Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia

1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.

1948 - Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1959 - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails

1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)

1971 - USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit

1972 - Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth

1972 - Hungary revises constitution

1986 - Michael Spinks defeats Larry Holmes in 15 round decision for heavyweight boxing title, ending Larry Holmes's hopes for retiring with an undefeated record, which would have made him only the second champion in history to do so. Holmes had been 48-0 going into the fight, but this would be the first of three consecutive losses.

1991 - Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1993 - The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.

1994 - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

1994 - Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating

1994 - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.

1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

2005 - Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rome-founded

http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/19

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/apr19.htm


http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/April-19


http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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