19 Aprile

The 19t o Aprile is the 109t day o the year (110t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 256 days ti come.

 Events 
 1390 - Robert III o Scotland becomes King.
 1770 - James Cook sichts the east coast o Australie.
 1839 - The Treaty o Lunnon staiblishes Belgium as a kinrick an guarantees its neutrality.
 1865 - The funeral o Abraham Lincoln taks place.
 1897 - Boston, Massachusetts haulds its first marathon.
 1941 - Warld War II: A nichttime air-raid in Lunnon kills 13 firefechters.
 1948 - Burma jyns the Unitit Naitions.
 1956 - American actress Grace Kelly mairies Rainier III, Prince o Monaco.
 1971 - Sierra Leone becomes a republic.
 1975 - Indie launches its first satellite.
 1987 - The Simpsons, creatit bi Matt Groening, premier on the Tracey Ullman show. The first full series stairts in December 1989.
 1995 - The splosion o a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal biggin in Oklahoma Ceety kills 168 fowk.
 1999 - The German Bundestag muives frae Bonn tae Berlin.
 2005 - Pape Benedict XVI is electit heid o the Roman Catholic Kirk.
 2006 - Maureen Watt teuk her Aith o Allegiance tae Queen Elizabeth II as Commissioner tae the Scots Pairlament.
 2015 - A boat capsizes off Lampedusa, Soothren Italy, killin an estimatit ower 700 fowk fleein frae Africae an the Middle East.
 2018 - Miguel Diaz-Canel becomes Preses o Cuba, succeedin Raul Castro.
 2018 - On his 50t birthday, Mswati III o Swaziland proclaims a chynge in the kintra's offeecial name tae "Kinrick o eSwatini".

 Births 
 1758 - William Carnegie, 7t Yerl o Northesk, Scots admiral (d. 1831)
 1793 - Ferdinand I o Austrick (d. 1825)
 1801 - Gustav Fechner, German philosopher, pheesicist an psychologist (d. 1887)
 1832 - José Echegaray, Spaingie dramatist (d. 1916)
 1882 - Getulio Vargas, Preses o Brazil (d. 1954)
 1897 - Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1912 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (d. 1999)
 1932 - Fernando Botero, Colombie penter an sculptor
 1936 - Séamus Pattison, Irish politeecian (d. 2018)
 1937 - Joseph Estrada, umwhile Preses o the Philippines
 1943 - Margo MacDonald, Scots politeecian (d. 2014)
 1960 - Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian muisicker, componer an producer
 1964 - Gordon Marshall, Scots fitbawer
 1968 - Mswati III, King o Swaziland
 1969 - Ashley Judd, American actress
 1970 - Kelly Holmes, Inglis athlete
 1970 - Luis Miguel, Mexican sangster
 1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian fitbawer
 1978 - James Franco, American actor
 1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
 1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
 1985 - Valon Behrami, Swiss fitbawer
 1987 - Joe Hart, Inglis fitbawer
 1987 - Maria Sharapova, Roushie profeesional tennis player an umwhile Warld No. 1.
 1994 - Sam Stanton, Scots fitbawer

 Daiths 
 1054 - Pape Leo IX (b. 1002)
 1390 - Robert II o Scotland (b. 1316)
 1560 - Philip Melanchthon, German reformer (b. 1497)
 1768 - Canaletto, Italian airist (b. 1697)
 1804 - Robert Hay-Drummond, 10t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer (b. 1751)
 1824 - Laird Byron, Inglis poet (b. 1788)
 1829 - David Erskine, 11t Yerl o Buchan, Scots botanist, author an gairden an seemetry designer (b. 1742)
 1854 - Robert Jameson, Scots naituralist an meeneralogist (b. 1774)
 1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1804)
 1882 - Charles Darwin, Inglis naituralist (b. 1809)
 1906 - Pierre Curie, French scientist (b. 1859)
 1915 - Thomas Clouston, Scots psychiatrist (b. 1840)
 1932 - Watson Cheyne, Scots surgeon an bacteriologist (b. 1852)
 1967 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor o Wast Germany (b. 1876)
 1974 - Ayub Khan, Preses o Pakistan (b. 1907)
 1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
 2004 - Ronnie Simpson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1930)
 2009 - J. G. Ballard, Inglis writer (b. 1930)
 2016 - Patricio Aylwin, Preses o Chile (b. 1918)

 Halidays 
 The eat day o the follaein saunts in the Roman Catholic Kirk:
Saunt Emma
George o Antioch
Ursmar
Expeditus
 Patriots' Day (Maine, Massachusetts, Wisconsin)
 King Mswati's Birthday (Swaziland)
 Bicycle Day
 Dutch-American Friendship Day

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Category:Days o the year