Yves-François Blanchet (born April 16, 1965) is a Canadian politician. He is the leader of the Bloc Québécois since January 2019. He is the Member of parliament for the Quebec riding of Beloeil—Chambly. From 2008 to 2014, he was a member of the Quebec National Assembly.
He was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2008 Quebec general election. He represented the riding of Drummond.
Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier (born January 18, 1963) is a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and politician. He was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Beauce from 2006 through 2019. He is the founder and current leader of the People's Party of Canada.
People's Party of Canada
The People's Party of Canada (PPC; ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party was created by Maxime Bernier, on September 14, 2018, shortly after his resignation from the Conservative party.
The party is conservative, libertarian, populist, classical liberal, and right-wing.
Bernier was the party's only Member of Parliament, having represented the riding of Beauce from 2006 to the 2019 federal election.
Blanca Rodríguez
Blanca María Rodríguez de Pérez (January 1, 1926 – August 5, 2020) was a Venezuelan socialite. She was the First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. She was the wife of Carlos Andrés Pérez. She was born in Rubio, Venezuela.
Rodríguez died of respiratory failure caused by a pulmonary embolism in Caracas on August 5, 2020 at the age of 94.
2019 UNCC shooting
The 2019 UNCC shooting was a mass shooting. It happened at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States at around 5:40 PM EDT on April 30, 2019.
The shooting, which occurred on the last day of classes for the spring semester. It sent six people to the hospital, two of whom were dead upon arrival, and three others were in critical condition.
The shooting occurred inside a classroom in the Woodford A. Kennedy Building while students were giving a final presentation. The suspect, Trystan Terrell, was taken into police custody.
Louis Rosenblum
Louis (Lou) Rosenblum (15 November 1923 – 4 April 2019) was an American research scientist and activist. His works were about the movement for freedom of Jews of the Soviet Union. He was a founder of the first organization to support the freedom of Soviet Jews. He was a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Rosenblum died on 4 April 2019 at his home in Wellesley, Massachusetts at the age of 95.
Frederick Hemke
Fred Hemke, DMA "(né" Frederick Leroy Hemke, Jr.; July 11, 1935 – April 17, 2019) was an American classical saxophonist and educator. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was among the leading American composers and helped raise the recognition of classical saxophone. For a half century, from 1962 to 2012, Hemke was a full-time faculty music educator at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music. Hemke retired from Northwestern University in 2012.
Hemke died on April 17, 2019 in Evanston, Illinois at the age of 83.
Martin Kilson
Martin Luther Kilson Jr. (February 14, 1931 – April 24, 2019) was an American political scientist. He was the first black academic to be appointed a full professor at Harvard University, where he was later the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government from 1988 until his retirement in 1999.
Kilson died on April 24, 2019 in Lexington, Massachusetts at the age of 88.
Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American computer scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the ideas of artificial intelligence. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan. He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford University from 1991 until his retirement. His best known work was Shakey the robot.
Nilsson died on April 23, 2019, at his home in Medford, Oregon, at the age of 86.
Shakey the robot
Shakey the Robot was the first general purpose mobile AI robot.
The project combined research in robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing. Because of this, it was the first project that melded logical reasoning and physical action. Shakey was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) by Nils John Nilsson from 1966 to 1972.
Petar Omčikus
Petar Omčikus (; ); October 6, 1926 – April 26, 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He worked in Paris, France. He was born in Sušak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Omčikus died in Belgrade, Serbia on April 26, 2019 at the age of 92.
Jo Sullivan Loesser
Elizabeth Josephine "Jo" Sullivan (August 28, 1927 – April 28, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She became a musical theatre star with her best known role in the original production of "The Most Happy Fella". She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957. Loesser in Mounds, Illinois.
Loesser died on April 28, 2019 at her home in New York City of heart failure at the age of 91.
Beth Carvalho
Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (May 5, 1946 – April 30, 2019), known professionally as Beth Carvalho, was a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her works mainly focused on the indigenous people of Brazil.
Carvalho died of problems caused by a staph infection on April 30, 2019 in Rio at the age of 72.
Luis Maldonado Venegas
Luis Maldonado Venegas (November 19, 1956 – April 30, 2019) was a Mexican politician and lawyer. He was born in Mexico City. Maldonado was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. He was a federal deputy representing Mexico City and the fourth electoral region in the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2015 to 2018. Maldonado also was the national president of the Convergencia political party.
Maldonado died in Mexico City on April 30, 2019 from problems caused by surgery at the age of 62.
English Landing Park
English Landing Park is along the Missouri River in Parkville, Missouri, United States. There is a set of train tracks that runs along the park. It has a jogging/biking trail, several shelters for picnics, a soccer field, a baseball diamond, volleyball courts, two playgrounds and a nine-hole Frisbee golf course.
The area of English Landing Park was bought in 1838. The Power Plant Restaurant, which sits right next to the railroad tracks at the entrance to the park, was built in the mid-19th century as a coal-fired twin-boiler power plant that fed the entire city. The park later became a civil war port for the slave trade.
Parkville was not a Civil War battlefield, but there was still mass genocide as numerous slaves tried desperately to escape across the river into Free Kansas. These slaves were buried in three large unmarked cemeteries. After the Civil War, the port was abandoned and the area slowly changed from a bustling city to what is Parkville.
The park includes the historic Bridge, built 1898 which spanned Linn Branch Creek.
During the Great Flood of 1993, the park and most of Downtown Parkville were submerged under more than 15 feet of water.
On May 4, 2003, English Landing Park narrowly missed an EF1 tornado that came across the river and cut damage paralleling the railroad tracks before crossing 9 Highway.
In May 2007, the Missouri River flooded the entire park with less than 3 feet of water. The river receded approximately a week later. Also in 2007, the Power Plant Restaurant's neglected smokestack had to be torn down, eradicating an icon of the city's past.
On March 17, 2019, The river flooded up over English Landing Park all the way to the train tracks before retreating a few days later. No buildings were damaged but playground equipment and structures at the dog park were damaged and lost. Also, a bridge that goes over the Linn branch creek collapsed.
Eldon Bargewell