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April 19.
1770. James Cook first sights Australia.
1770. Marie Antoinette marries King Louis XVI.
1775. The battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782. Future President John Adams obtains Dutch recognition of the independent sovereignty of the United States. The house that he purchased in the Hague becomes the first American Embassy.
1861. A mob of succession supporters in Baltimore, Maryland, attack Union troops marching through the city.
1943. German troops enter Warsaw to round up the last of the Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1971. Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five day protest in Washington DC.
1987. The Simpsons premiers as a short cartoon on the Tracy Ullman Show.
1993. The 51 day siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, ends when a fire breaks out. 81 people die.
1995. The Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City is destroyed in an act of domestic terrorism. 168 people are killed.
2005. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI.
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