On This Day: 19 April

19 April in Indian history

• 1975Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.India

19 April in world history

• 2013Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
• 1995A truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.
• 1993The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
• 1987The fictional Simpson family made their first appearance in the short "Good Night", aired in a segment of the The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1985Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• 1984"Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.
• 1975South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
• 1942World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1927Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• 1925Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes
• 1903Anti-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.
• 1861The 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.
• 1810Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
• 1809War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
• 1782John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
• 1775The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
• 1713With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.

Born on 19 April

• 1972Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, Brazilian footballer
• 1957Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance IndustriesIndia
• 1944James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (died 2002)
• 1921Leon Henkin, American logician (died 2006)
• 1897Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)India

Died on 19 April

• 1955Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (born 1875)India
• 1903Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1820)
• 1629Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born 1582)India
• 1044Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 19 April in history?

2013: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. 1995: A truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others. 1993: The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire. 1987: The fictional Simpson family made their first appearance in the short "Good Night", aired in a segment of the The Tracey Ullman Show.

What happened on 19 April in Indian history?

1975: Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.

Which famous people were born on 19 April?

Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, Brazilian footballer (1972); Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries (1957); James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (1944); Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (died 2002) (1935).