April 19......

April 19 is the 109th (110th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Conformity "Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity." — Maya Angelou, Poet Laureate of the United States

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus." — John "I can't dance" Ashcroft, in a commencement address at Bob Jones University

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

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

● 1012 - Alphege was martyred by Danes who had been ravaging the south of England. Alphege became the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1005.

● 1451 - Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne

● 1524 - Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-General French Van de Holly

● 1529 - In Germany at the Diet of Spires (Speyer), a document signed by Lutheran leaders in fourteen cities lodged a "protest" which demanded a freedom of conscience and the right of minorities. Henceforth, the German Lutheran Reformers were known as "Protestants."

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

● 1552 - Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel

● 1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.

● 1591 - Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France

● 1619 - Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam

● 1689 - Residents of Boston ousted their governor, Edmond Andros.

● 1692 - Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.

● 1713 - With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).

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

● 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered New South Wales, Australia. Cook originally named the land Point Hicks.

● 1770 - Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname

● 1775 - Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon

● 1775 - Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

● 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.

● 1782 - Netherlands recognizes US

● 1794 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko forced the Russians out of Warsaw.

● 1802 - The Spanish reopened the New Orleans port to American merchants.

● 1809 - The army of Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.

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

● 1823 - Birth of Anna L. Waring, Welsh Anglican hymnwriter. "In Heavenly Love Abiding" is one of her best-known hymns, and is still sung today.

● 1825 - 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay

● 1837 - Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth

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

● 1851 - Kalapuyan Atfalate cede lands to U.S. in exchange for a small reservation at Wapato Lake, Oregon.

● 1853 - Netherlands Van Hall government forms

● 1861 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe sailed 900 miles in nine hours in a hot air balloon.

● 1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city- 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed.

● 1861 - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

● 1863 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA

● 1864 - Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama

● 1874 - Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire

● 1879 - Moses Lake reservation established for Chelan people.

● 1883 - Getulio Vargas, the Brazilian president who used dictatorial powers to modernize his country, was born.

● 1887 - The Catholic University of America was chartered in Washington, D.C.

● 1890 - Henry Morton Stanley is inaugurated in Brussels

● 1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.

● 1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.

● 1906 - Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail

● 1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.

● 1910 - Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)

● 1916 - Italians troops conquer Colonel di Lana at Merano

● 1919 - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day

● 1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful parachute jump and free-fall.

● 1921 - Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria

● 1923 - New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers

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

● 1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

● 1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

● 1928 - Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland

● 1930 - American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'Fellowship with God is like a delicate little plant, for a long nurturing is the price of having it, while it vanishes in a second of time, as soon as we try to seat some other unworthy affection beside Him.'

● 1932 - President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

● 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States will be abandoning the gold standard.

● 1936 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.

● 1938 - General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War.

● 1939 - Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

● 1940 - "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls NY

● 1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege

● 1941 - Robert F. Wagner, Sr. introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate stating that U.S. policy should favor the "restoration of the Jews in Palestine." The resolution was supported by 68 Senators.

● 1941 - Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia

● 1941 - Milk rationed in Holland

● 1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.

● 1943 - Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

● 1944 - Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra

● 1945 - US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air raid

● 1948 - Costa Rica abolishes its army -- a major factor in its never having fallen prey to corruption, dictatorships, or the bloodshed that has marred much of the region since.

● 1948 - Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China

● 1950 - Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech before the U.S. Congress. In the address General MacArthur said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." He retired on this day.

● 1952 - Thirty-five Operation Gandhi supporters picket Aldermaston spy base, Britain.

● 1954 - Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.

● 1959 - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails

● 1960 - Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

● 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure.

● 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter

● 1964 - Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier

● 1967 - Surveyor 3 landed on the moon and began sending photos back to the U.S.

● 1967 - Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years

● 1968 - Belgian construction workers strike

● 1971 - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

● 1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.

● 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC.

● 1971 - Russia launched the Salyut into orbit around Earth. It was the first space station.

● 1972 - 'Bloody Sunday' report excuses Army; The British army is largely cleared of blame for Bloody Sunday which ended in the deaths of 14 civilians in Northern Ireland.

● 1972 - Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth

● 1972 - Hungary revises constitution

● 1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1973 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1975 - India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR

● 1976 - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.

● 1978 - Lagumot Harris is elected President of Nauru.

● 1978 - California Gov. Jerry Brown refuses a request from South Dakota to extradite American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks to South Dakota to stand trial.

● 1978 - Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel

● 1982 - Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut

● 1982 - USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

● 1982 - Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut

● 1983 - France performs nuclear test

● 1984 - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine)

● 1985 - 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth

● 1985 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

● 1985 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1987 - In Phoenix, AZ, skydiver Gregory Robertson went into a 200-mph free-fall to save an unconscious colleague 3,500 feet from the ground.

● 1987 - 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.

● 1987 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

● 1988 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Forest Service can build logging road through sacred lands of Yurok, Karok, and Tolowa tribes in Northern California.

● 1989 - A white female jogger in New York's Central Park was brutally beaten and raped. Five black and Hispanic teenagers were imprisoned, but the convictions were overturned in 2003 when a serial rapist confessed and DNA evidence tied him to the crime.

● 1989 - A giant asteroid passed within 500,000 miles of Earth.

● 1989 - In El Salvador, Attorney General Alvadora was killed by a car bomb.

● 1989 - Republic Day in Sierra Leone

● 1989 - Turret explosion aboard U.S.S. IOWA (BB-61) kills 47 sailors. Explosion is initially blamed on alleged suicide pact between gay sailors, as conjectured by Naval Investigative Service and as leaked to NBC News. Eventually, explosion is found to have been caused by unstable gun powder. Surviving gunner's mate sues NBC and Navy for libel and defamation of character.

● 1990 - United Front conducts two-day student strike in support of a diverse faculty, Univ. of California-Berkeley.

● 1990 - Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce in Nicaragua's civil war

● 1993 - Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40

● 1993 - Federal agents attack Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas; incinerating about 80 members. Later revelations suggest government munitions started the deadly fire and that agents prevented compound residents from fleeing the burning building. Because of the nature of the Branch Davidians - - a tiny evangelical sect -- and the weaponry charges being pursued by the government, the deaths become a rallying point for far right activists, but are largely ignored by the left.

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

● 1995 - 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. Bombing is initially blamed on Arab terrorists; later found to be the work of Timothy McVeigh who was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997 and later executed. He was a far right American "patriot" striking back to commemorate Waco.

● 1997 - Flooding from the Red River forced more than 50,000 residents to abandon Grand Forks, N.D.

● 1998 - Wang Dan, a leader of 1989 Tienanmen Square pro democracy protests, was freed by the Chinese government.

● 1999 - The German parliament (Bundestag) inaugurated its new home in the restored Reichstag in Berlin, its prewar capital.

● 2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.

● 2000 - The Oklahoma City National Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma that killed 168 people.

● 2001 - Drugs firms withdraw from AIDS case; The world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have backed out of a landmark court battle over cheap anti-AIDS drugs.

● 2002 - The USS Cole was 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.

● 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave. {This should be of concern to all Americans because this was the man who told Catholics to vote for Bush because Kerry was not a Catholic in good standing. (The Cardinal objected to Kerry's pro-choice stance.)}

● 2006 - The U.S. government released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

BIRTHS

● 1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)

● 1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)

● 1603 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)

● 1658 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)

● 1665 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)

● 1686 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)

● 1721 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (b. 1665)

● 1721 - Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)

● 1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)

● 1793 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)

● 1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)

● 1832 - Lucretia Garfield, American first lady (1881) (d. 1918)

● 1874 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)

● 1877 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)

● 1882 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)

● 1883 - Julio Vargas, Brazilian president (1930-45, 1951-54) (d. 1954)

● 1883 - Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)

● 1889 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)

● 1892 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)

● 1897 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)

● 1897 - Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)

● 1899 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)

● 1900 - Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)

● 1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)

● 1905 - Sir Thomas Hopkinson, English editor and pioneering photojournalist (d. 1990)

● 1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

● 1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographher

● 1922 - Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993)

● 1925 - Hugh O'Brian, American actor

● 1928 - Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)

● 1930 - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1931 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)

● 1932 - Dickie Goodman, American humorist (d. 1989)

● 1933 - Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire

● 1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)

● 1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)

● 1936 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium

● 1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress ("Father Knows Best")

● 1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and President of the Philippines

● 1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)

● 1941 - Alan Price, English musician (The Animals), (The Alan Price Set)

● 1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize

● 1944 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)

● 1946 - Tim Curry, British actor

● 1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist

● 1947 - Mark "Flo" Volman, Singer (The Turtles, Flo and Eddie)

● 1948 - Rick Miller, American baseball player

● 1949 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot

● 1949 - Paloma Picasso, French/Spanish jewelry designer, fashion designer and businesswoman; daughter of artist Pablo Picasso

● 1951 - Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)

● 1951 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands

● 1952 - Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer

● 1953 - Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)

● 1953 - Ruby Wax, British television personality

● 1954 - Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)

● 1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer

● 1960 - Frank Viola, baseball player

● 1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver

● 1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer

● 1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano

● 1966 - Véronique Gens, French soprano

● 1966 - Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1966 - Julia Neigel, German singer and songwriter

● 1967 - Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor

● 1967 - Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter

● 1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland

● 1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress

● 1968 - Bekka Bramlett, Rock singer

● 1969 - Jesse James, Television personality, Custom motorcycle builder

● 1970 - Kelly Holmes, English athlete

● 1970 - Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer

● 1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer

● 1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer

● 1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer

● 1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player

● 1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer

● 1978 - James Franco, American actor

● 1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer

● 1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress

● 1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor

● 1981 - Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player

● 1981 - Troy Polamalu, American football player

● 1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress

● 1981 - Kasie Head, American actress and model

● 1983 - Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins All-Star catcher

● 1984 - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress

● 1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player

● 1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player

● 1987 - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress

● 1987 - Courtland Mead, American actor

● 1989 - Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)

DEATHS

● 1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)

● 1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)

● 1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)

● 1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)

● 1567 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)

● 1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)

● 1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter

● 1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)

● 1618 - Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)

● 1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)

● 1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer

● 1632 - King Sigismund I of Sweden (b. 1561)

● 1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)

● 1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)

● 1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England

● 1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682/3)

● 1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)

● 1768 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)

● 1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)

● 1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)

● 1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)

● 1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)

● 1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)

● 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)

● 1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)

● 1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)

● 1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

● 1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)

● 1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)

● 1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)

● 1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)

● 1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)

● 1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)

● 1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)

● 1967 - George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)

● 1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)

● 1997 - Eldon Hoke (aka "El Duce"), American musician (b. 1958)

● 1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

● 1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee.

● 2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (b. 1967)

● 2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)

● 2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)

● 2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)

● 2005 - Bryan Ottoson, American musician (b. 1978)

● 2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)

● 2005 - Blade Icewood, American rapper (b. 1977)

● 2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)

● 2006 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2

● 2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Alphege
● St. Crescentius
● St. Emma
● St. Expeditus
● St. George of Antioch
● St. Gerold
● St. Hermogenes
● St. James Duckett, Blessed
● St. Paphnutius
● Sts. Pavoni, Anthony
● St. Timon
● St. Ursmar
● St. Vincent of Collioure

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 6 (Civil Date: April 19)
● St. Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● St. Methodius, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of the Slavs.
● St. Platonida (Platonis) of Nisibis.
● Martyrs Jeremiah and Archilias the presbyter.
● St. Gregory of St. Athanasius' Monastery on Mt. Athos. instructor of St. Gregory Palamas.
● St. Gregory the Sinaite.
● Repose of Elder Mardarius of Nizhni-Novgorod Caves Monastery (1859).

● Christian:
● James Duckett

● Anglican:
● St. Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyr

● Lutheran:
● Laurentius Petri
● Olavus Petri

● Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992. In the Gregorian Calendar Easter Sunday falls on 19 April more often than on any other date.

● The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends. (Roman Empire)

● Patriot's Day (Wisconsin, USA).

● Primrose Day (England) – primroses are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death (1881).

● Bicycle Day -- Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately took LSD for the first time. (1943)

● "Dia do Índio" in Brazil

● Cuba : Bay of Pigs Victory Day (1961)

● Sierra Leone : Republican Anniversary Day (1971)

● Uruguay : Landing of the 33/Desembarco de los "Treinta y Tres" (1825)

● US : John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen

● Venezuela : Declaration of Independence Day/Day of Indian

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Massachusetts, Maine: Patriots Day-Boston Marathon run (1775) - (Monday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from "The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right" Compiled by William P. Martin 2004

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