Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19

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

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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)
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
* AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Gaius Calpurnius Piso's plot to kill Roman emperor Nero, leading to the arrest of the conspirators.	Tagged for reliance on primary sources
* 797 – Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene.	Article gives date of 19 August
Sarah Bagley |b|1806|	Sources conflict
Hayden Christensen |b|1981|	unsourced filmography and accolades

Eligible

• 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.
• 1773 – The Polish Partition Sejm met to discuss the First Partition of Poland, carried out the previous year by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
• 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.
• 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
• 1875 – The Minute Man was unveiled as part of the centennial celebration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
• 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.
• 1927 – American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her play Sex.
• 1956 – American actress Grace Kelly (pictured) became the princess consort of Monaco upon her marriage to Rainier III.
• 1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union.
• 1975 – Aryabhata (pictured), India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.
• 1987 – The fictional Simpson family made their first appearance in the short "Good Night", aired in a segment of the The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1989 – A gun turret exploded on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
• 1995 – A truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (aftermath pictured) in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.
• 2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave.
• 2015 – Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American, died of injuries sustained while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department.

• Born/died: | Eanflæd |b|626| Uesugi Kenshin |d|1578| Jagat Gosain |d|1619| George St Lo |b|1655| Benjamin Rush |d|1813| Sydney Barnes |b|1873| Ernst Rüdin |b|1874| Benjamin Disraeli |d|1881| Elizabeth Dilling |b|1894| Jiroemon Kimura |b|1897| Glenn T. Seaborg |b|1912| Michel Roux |b|1941| Charles Inglis |d|1952| Denis O'Brien |b|1958| Michael Campbell-Brown |b|1966| Lo Kauppi |b|1970| Maria Sharapova |b|1987| Joe Hart |b|1987| Paul O'Donovan |b|1994| Hermine Braunsteiner |d|1999| The Rizzler |b|2016| Aaron Hernandez |d|2017| }}

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 Alphege of Canterbury (Catholicism, Anglicanism); Primrose Day in London

The Doors

• 1506 – In Lisbon, Portugal, a crowd began a massacre of Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity.
• 1861 – The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
• 1971 – The Doors (pictured) released L.A. Woman, their final album during their lead vocalist Jim Morrison's lifetime.
• 1984 – "Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.
• 2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashed in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
• 2020 – A series of attacks in Nova Scotia, Canada, ended when the perpetrator was killed by police, leaving 22 victims dead.

• Elizabeth Raffald (d. 1781)
• Mary Louise Booth (b. 1831)
• Kwon Ki-ok (d. 1988)
• The Rizzler (b. 2016)

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• April 20