Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on April 19 throughout history.
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 20…
The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet
On April 18 and 19, 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people, and in…
A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in th
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon …
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 19…
Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961
The Quito Ultratumba nightclub fire was a fire that occurred on April 19, 2008, at the Factory nightclub in Quito, Ecuador, during the gothic rock concert Ultratumba 2008. A pyrot…
The Quito Ultratumba nightclub fire in Quito, Ecuador, kills 19 people and injures at least 24 more
A conclave was held on 18 and 19 April 2005 to elect a new pope to succeed John Paul II, who had died on 2 April 2005. Of the 117 eligible cardinal electors, all but two attended.…
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI
Space Shuttle Endeavour is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May …
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station
Air Philippines Flight 541 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Air Philippines from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila to Francisco Bangoy International Ai…
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
The Bundestag is the federal parliament of Germany. It is the only constitutional body in the country directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag was established by Title…
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin
On April 19, 1995, American anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, assisted by Terry Nichols, detonated a makeshift bomb stored in a rental truck parked in front of the Alfred…
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P
The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by US federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult kno…
The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out
A gun turret is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim. A modern gun turret is generally a rotatable w…
A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical d…
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night"
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly abbreviated as the ATF, is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice…
Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sw
"Advance Australia Fair" is the national anthem of Australia. Written by Scottish-born Australian composer Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed as a patriotic song …
Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours
During the evening hours of April 19, 1976, a violent tornado struck Brownwood, Texas, United States. The damage caused by the tornado was extreme enough for the National Weather …
A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence i…
India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor …
South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War
The Socialist Party is a social democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time wi…
The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the west coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra…
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president