Also on April 19
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Beginning of the Independence Movement (VE) · Declaración de la Independencia (VE)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Birth of Muhammad Effendi al-Yaraghi (ق) major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2013 — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in... ↗
- 2011 — Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. ↗
- 2005 — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. ↗
- 1999 — The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. ↗
- 1997 — The 1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1991 — Steve Cook, English footballer
- 1990 — Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
- 1990 — Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
- 1990 — Héctor Herrera, Mexican footballer
- 1990 — Kim Him-chan, South Korean singer and dancer
🏀 Sports on this Date
- NHL: Philadelphia Flyers @ Pittsburgh Penguins — 00:00 Final
- MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers @ Colorado Rockies — 00:10 Final
- MLB: Toronto Blue Jays @ Arizona Diamondbacks — 00:10 Final
- NBA: Houston Rockets @ Los Angeles Lakers — 00:30 Final
- MLS: LA Galaxy @ FC Dallas — 00:30 Full Time
- MLS: Portland Timbers @ Minnesota United FC — 00:30 Full Time