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Events on April 19

• 1529 At the Imperial Diet of Speyer, six princes and 14 imperial cities, acting as representatives of the Protestant minority, protest against the imposition of the Imperial Ban on Martin Luther and the proscription of his writings and teachings, an event known as the Protestation of Speyer.
• 1775 The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord, in which militia from Massachusetts under William Heath defeat British units to their own surprise, and with the ensuing siege of Boston, which will last almost a year.
• 1897 The Boston Marathon is the first marathon race in sports to be held outside the Olympic Games. 15 athletes start in Boston.
• 1943 The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann deliberately tests the LSD he discovered for the first time in a self-experiment. The anniversary is celebrated in popular culture as "Bicycle Day" (Bicycle Day), because at the beginning of his hallucinogenic experience, Hofmann rode his bicycle home.
• 1956 The American actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Monaco.
• 1961 The US-backed invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba ends after just two days in the complete defeat of the Cuban exile forces.
• 1972 A large-scale raid by the Berlin police leads to the clearing out of the formerly occupied Georg von Rauch House. Rio Reiser later sings about this police operation in the Rauch-Haus-Song by the band Ton Steine Scherben.
• 1987 The animated characters of the Simpson family created by Matt Groening make their first television appearance in a short film on The Tracey Ullman Show. Later, the series The Simpsons is created around these characters.
• 1995 In a bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, 168 people are killed. As his motive, the attacker Timothy McVeigh cites, among other things, revenge for the events in Waco exactly two years earlier.
• 1999 The Reichstag building in Berlin becomes the seat of the German Bundestag. On the same day, the Leo Baeck House, the former College for the Study of Judaism, is opened as the seat of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
• 2006 At Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport, after the construction moratorium is lifted, the first ceremonial groundbreaking for the runway extension by 589 m to the south takes place. The extension makes scheduled landings of the Airbus A380 possible.
• 2018 General Eberhard Zorn is inaugurated in Berlin as the 16th Inspector General of the Bundeswehr.

Born on April 19

• 1872 Alice Salomon, liberal social reformer in the German women's movement
• 1882 Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian politician
• 1901 Rose Oehmichen, German actress, co-founder of the Augsburg Puppet Box
• 1912 Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and atomic physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 Kurt Schmidtchen, German actor
• 1950 Jacques Herzog, Swiss architect
• 1970 Kelly Holmes, British athlete
• 1981 Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
• 1982 Filip Jícha, Czech handball player and coach
• 1991 Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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