Today In History - April 19

1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet
1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions
1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 Capt James Cook 1st sees Australia
1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis," premieres in Paris
1775 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes U.S.
1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St. Petersburg
1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1852 California Historical Society forms
1853 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
1861 Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs. CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in New York City
1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1897 Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande"
1898 Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00
1899 Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38
1900 Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:39:44.4
1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1901 Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
1902 Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of New York in 2:43:12
1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of New York in 2:38:04.4
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of New York in 2:38:25.4
1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45
1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8
1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6
1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London
1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2
1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minnesota in 2:25:14.8
1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4
1916 Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano
1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of New York in 2:28:37.2
1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall
1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of New Jersey in 2:18:57.6
1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10
1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2
1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4
1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2
1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8
1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
1932 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:31:01.6
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt announces U.S. will leave gold standard
1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4
1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
1937 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8
1938 Phil Emmett Mueller and Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:28.6
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38
1941 B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," premieres in Zurich
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1941 Milk rationed in Holland
1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2
1943 Revolt in Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
1943 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1943 SS-lt-gen Jurgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2
1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 U.S. offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
1946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39
1947 AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:02
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 267 performances
1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
1951 Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
1956 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
1956 U.S. actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III
1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
1961 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1963 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 43 performances
1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belg in 2:18:58
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin
1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
1966 Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
1967 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years
1967 U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon
1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years
1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Connecticut in 2:22:17
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1968 NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams
1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 25 performances
1970 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy and Applause win
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45
1971 U.S.S.R. Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1972 Hungary revises constitution
1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday and Tomorrow"
1973 Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
1974 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against New York Yankees
1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of U.S.S.R.
1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10
1976 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf
1981 Oakland A's runs record to 11-0
1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in New York City
1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Ger in 2:29:33
1982 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oreg in 2:08:51
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 U.S.S.R. Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1983 France performs nuclear test
1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine
1985 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 and record 12th straight AL win
1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record, 124.9 mph
1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
1987 Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas and incoming government agree to truce
1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1991 Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont New York City after 38 perf
1992 Balki and Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
1993 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
1993 Branch Davidians in Waco Texas commit suicide after 51 day siege
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168
1996 Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles
1996 South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
1997 Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
1997 San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship

1320 Pedro I
1721 Roger Sherman
1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli
1737 Geert Reinders
1768 Adrian H Haworth
1772 David Ricardo
1795 Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg
1798 Heinrich Maria von Hess
1805 Charles Edmond-Henri de Coussemaker
1817 John Philip
1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett
1830 Rudolf Cornely
1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1832 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
1840 Andrea Bezzola
1850 Edward John Gregory
1850 Theo Mann-Bouwmeester
1857 Lucien Levy-Bruhl
1858 May Robson
1858 Siegfried Ochs
1861 Warden Oncle
1863 Felix Blumenfeld
1866 Henri WA Deterding
1868 Max Von Schillings
1873 Sydney Barnes
1874 Firmin Baes
1876 Hendrik W A E
1877 Ole Evinrude
1879 Richard Scheibe
1883 Getulio Vargas
1888 William L Axt
1890 Lou Bandy
1891 Francoise Rosay
1891 Ricardo Bacchelli
1892 Germaine Tailleferre
1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1897 Vivienne Segal
1898 Constance Talmadge
1898 Sybil Andrews
1900 Richard Arthur Warren Hughes
1903 Eliot Ness
1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach
1905 Tommy Benford
1907 Alan Wheatley
1907 Gino Contilli
1907 Lina Basquette
1910 Andrew Gilchrist
1911 Francesco Maria Saraceni
1912 Glen T. Seaborg
1912 William Murray
1913 Cyril English
1914 Andrew Wilkinson
1915 Dorian Le Gallienne
1915 Harry Craft
1917 Johnny Hoes
1919 Gil Langley
1920 Frank Fontaine
1921 Glyn England
1921 Will Ogdon
1922 Erich Hartmann
1922 Luigi Barbbarito
1925 Hugh O'Brian
1927 Don Barbour
1928 Alexis Korner
1928 John Horlock
1929 Edward Crook
1931 Alex Webster
1931 Denis Henry
1931 Garfield Morgan
1931 Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee
1932 Andrea Mead Lawrence
1932 Jayne Mansfield
1933 Dick Sargent
1933 Harold "Dickie" Bird
1934 Dickie Goodman
1934 Jan Helge Guttorm Bark
1934 John Roch
1935 Dudley Moore
1935 Peter Scott
1936 Csaba Szabo
1936 Ruby Johnson
1936 Wilfried Martens
1937 Elinor Donahue
1938 Jonathan Tunick
1939 E Clay Shaw, Jr.
1939 Ellen Weston
1939 Michael Macaulay
1940 Algy Cluff
1941 Michel Roux
1942 Alan Price
1943 Mike Kelly
1944 Bernard Worrell
1944 Margo MacDonald
1944 Mark "Flo" Volman
1945 Nuria Ortiz
1946 Leon Wessels
1946 Tim Curry
1946 Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky
1947 Frits Castricum
1947 Murray Perahia
1947 Wilf Stevenson
1949 Myra McCulloch
1949 Paloma Picasso
1950 Jeff Hammond
1950 Marc Demeyer
1952 Adny Shernoff
1953 Sara Simeoni
1953 Ruby Wax
1954 Trevor Francis
1956 Lori West
1956 Sue Barker
1957 Belinda Lipscomb
1957 Bo[as] Watson
1957 Rod Morgenstern
1960 Frank Viola
1961 Richard Phelps
1962 Al Unser, Jr.
1962 Christa Teno
1964 Harris Barton
1964 Scott Kamienicki
1965 Melita Ruhn
1966 Paul Reiffel
1966 Randolph Keys
1968 Brent Mayne
1968 Keith McCants
1968 Roger Reinson
1968 Thomas Nock
1968 Ashley Judd
1969 Carlos Reyes
1969 Danelle Marie Folta
1969 James Westphal
1970 Luis Miguel
1970 Michael Barrow
1970 Rick Hamilton
1971 Otis Scott
1972 Eric Jack
1972 Jeff Wilkins
1974 Ante Moric
1975 Jason Gillespie
1975 Nazarena Almada
1975 Temoc Suarez
1976 Vanessa Guzma
1978 Adrienne Parker
1978 Whitney Metzler
1979 Challen Sievers
1979 Mariah Billado
1979 Kate Hudson
1981 Hayden Christensen