more events on April 19
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1995
A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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1993
The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Davidian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas.
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1989
The battleship USS Iowa‘s number 2 turret explodes, killing sailors.
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1982
NASA names Sally Ride to be the first woman astronaut.
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1977
Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots.
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1971
Russia launches its first Salyut space station.
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1960
Baseball uniforms begin displaying player’s names on their backs.
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1943
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins.
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1939
Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights.
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1938
General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War.
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1934
Shirley Temple appears in her first movie.
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1933
Etheridge Knight, poet.
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1927
In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek.
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1912
Glenn T. Seaborg, physicist.
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1905
Tom Hopkinson, British writer.
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1903
Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition.
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1900
Richard Hughes, English novelist and playwright (A High Wind in Jamaica).
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1880
The Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner.
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1877
Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor.
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1861
President Abraham Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports.
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The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed.
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1832
Lucretia Rudolph, President James A. Garfield‘s first lady.
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1824
English poet Lord George Gordon Byron dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence.
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1802
The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants.
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1794
Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw.
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1782
The Netherlands recognizes the United States.
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1775
The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts.
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1764
The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money.
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1721
Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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1689
Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros.
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1666
Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist.
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1539
Emperor Charles V reaches a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany.