Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19

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This is a list of selected April 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.

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Flag of the First Republic of Venezuela
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Burning buildings, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Nazi troops round up Warsaw Ghetto residents
Aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing
Saint Alphege
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Protestors in South Korea
title=Pope Benedict XVI
Grace Kelly

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Primrose Day in London	stub
1810 – An expanded municipal government of Caracas deposed Captain General Vicente Emparán and established the First Republic of Venezuela.	needs more footnotes
1839 – The signing of the Treaty of London formally recognised Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.	appears on August 4 (that date needs more articles)
1861 – American Civil War: The first bloodshed of the war took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.	lots of {{cn}} tags (7)
1904 – A fire destroyed downtown Toronto, destroying 104 buildings and causing CAN$10,350,000 in damage.	refimprove
1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the German occupation.	refimprove section
1960 – Students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against President Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.	refimprove section
1993 – The 51-day siege of the Mount Carmel Center, the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect outside Waco, Texas, ended when a fire broke out, killing over 70 people.	lots of CN tags (8), mostly in one section
2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave.	refimprove section

Eligible

AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Gaius Calpurnius Piso's plot to kill Roman emperor Nero, leading to the arrest of the conspirators.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issued the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing the Habsburg hereditary possessions to be inherited by a daughter.
1775 – The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
1782 – The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the first United States embassy.
1903 – Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia Governorate, causing the death of nearly 50 Jews and focusing worldwide attention on the persecution of Jews in Russia.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly became Princess consort of Monaco upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
1971 – The Doors' L.A. Woman was released, their final album during Jim Morrison's lifetime.
1975 – South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
1989 – A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors.
1995 – A truck bomb destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.
2015 – In Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Freddie Gray died of injuries sustained a week earlier while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department.
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Notes

The midnight ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott is listed on April 18, so Battles of Lexington and Concord should not appear in the same year

April 19: Feast day of Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury (Catholicism, Anglicanism); Patriots' Day in various U.S. states (2021)

Mae West

797 – Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene.
1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: The French won a hard-fought victory over Austria in Lower Bavaria when their opponents withdrew from the field of battle that evening.
1927 – American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" for her play Sex.
1971 – The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR, USSR.
1984 – "Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.

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Sarah Bagley (b. 1806)
Michel Roux (b. 1941)

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