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19 April, 2005
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
19 April, 1999
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
19 April, 1995
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
19 April, 1993
The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
19 April, 1993
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
19 April, 1985
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australias national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
19 April, 1985
U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R.
19 April, 1976
Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
19 April, 1975
Indias first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
19 April, 1971
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
19 April, 1971
Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC.
19 April, 1971
Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.
19 April, 1971
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
19 April, 1961
The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
19 April, 1960
Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
19 April, 1956
Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
19 April, 1955
The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
19 April, 1954
Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
19 April, 1951
General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
19 April, 1950
Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
19 April, 1945
The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
19 April, 1943
World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
19 April, 1943
Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
19 April, 1942
World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
19 April, 1936
First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
19 April, 1934
Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
19 April, 1928
The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
19 April, 1927
Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
19 April, 1919
Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
19 April, 1909
Joan of Arc receives beatification.
19 April, 1904
Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
19 April, 1892
Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
19 April, 1861
American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
19 April, 1839
The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
19 April, 1810
Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
19 April, 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.
19 April, 1782
John Adams secured the Dutch Republics recognition of the United States as an independent government and the house that he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became the first American embassy.
19 April, 1775
American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.
19 April, 1713
With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI 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).
19 April, 1587
Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
19 April, 1529
At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.
19 April, 1012
Martyrdom of St. Alphege in Greenwich, London.

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