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In the Gregorian Calendar, Easter Sunday falls on 19 April more often than on any other date.

Events

1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German language: Fürst) and independent cities (German language: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestantism movement.
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spain fleet in Cádiz harbor.
1692 - Salem witch trials goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
1713 - With no living male heirs, Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Habsburg Monarchy would be Inheritance by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).

: American Revolutionary War begins

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.
1809 - The army of Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn (1809), 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 wiktionary:junta is installed.
1839 - The Treaty of London, 1839 establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
1919 - Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex (play).
1928 - The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States will be abandoning the gold standard.
1934 - Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.
1936 - First day of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine in British mandate of Palestine.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, Germany troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 - Bicycle Day – Switzerland chemist Doctor (title) Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1950 - Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty.
1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 - Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali language to be national languages of Pakistan.
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.
1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
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 success for the defenders.
1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the List of Presidents of Sierra Leone.
1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, DC.
1971 - Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.
1976 - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
1978 - Lagumot Harris is elected President of Nauru.
1985 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 - U.S.S.R performs Nuclear weapon test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk U.S.S.R.
1987 - The Simpsons make their television debut in the short "Good Night (The Simpsons short)" a segment for The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 - A gun turret USS Iowa turret explosion on the USS Iowa (BB-61), killing 47 sailors.
1991 - Evander Holyfield defeats George Foreman by unanimous decision to retain the world heavyweight championship in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1993 - The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, United States, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murder Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas.
1999 - The Germany Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2000 - An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.
2005 - Cardinal (Catholicism) Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave, 2005.

Births

1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
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 - 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 in Literature laureate (d. 1916)
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 - 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 (actor), American actor (d. 1985)
1900 - Richard Hughes (writer), English novelist (d. 1976)
1900 - Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1912 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 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 (journalist), Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
1932 - Dickie Goodman, American humorist (d. 1989)
1933 - Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
1934 - Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1936 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
1937 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
1937 - Joseph Estrada, actor and President of the Philippines
1940 - Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 - Roberto Carlos (singer), Brazilian singer
1941 - Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
1941 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
1942 - Jack Roush, American founder of Roush Fenway Racing
1943 - Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1944 - James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics
1944 - Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1947 - Murray Perahia, American pianist
1947 - Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles)
1948 - Rick Miller (baseball player), American baseball player
1949 - Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
1949 - Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot
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)
1957 - Mukesh Ambani, Indian Business Tycoon
1960 - Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1960 - John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
1960 - Frank Viola, baseball player
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1965 - Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer
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 - Ashley Judd, American actress
1968 - Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer
1968 - Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1969 - Jesse G. James, Television personality, Custom motorcycle builder
1969 - Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
1970 - Kelly Holmes, English athlete
1970 - Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri, Mexican pop-singer
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1974 - Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1975 - Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
1975 - Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1976 - Ruud Adrianus Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 - Scott Padgett, American basketball player
1977 - Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 - James Franco, American actor
1978 - Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 - Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 - Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
1981 - Kasie Head, American actress and model
1981 - Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1981 - Troy Polamalu, American football player
1983 - Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 - Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1983 - Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player
1983 - Zack Duke, American baseball player
1984 - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
1985 - Michael Anderson, American Wrestler
1986 - Candace Parker, American basketball player
1987 - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1987 - Courtland Mead, American actor
1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1989 - Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
1990 - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress

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 (poet), English poet (b. 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1632 - King Sigismund III Vasa (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)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1892 - T. Pelham Dale Society of the Holy Cross, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualism in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1859)
1906 - Spencer Gore (sportsman), British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
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 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
1993 - George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
1997 - Eldon Hoke (aka "El Duce"), American musician (b. 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
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 - 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 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

Patriot's Day (Traditional) (Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin, United States).
Declaration of Independence Day (Venezuela).
Landing of the 33 (Uruguay).
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:

Saint Emma
Patriarch George of Antioch
Expeditus
Alphege

Primrose Day (England) – Primula vulgaris are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death (1881).
The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends. (Roman Empire)
Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992.
"Dia do Índio" in Brazil
King Mswati III of Swaziland's birthday (Swaziland)

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada