reply to post by MaxBlack
The following information adds even MORE significance to the April 19th date:
www.scopesys.com...
On April 19th:
Significant Events
607 Halley’s comet comes within 0.0898 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1529 In Germany at the Diet of Spires (Speyer), a document signed by Lutheran leaders in fourteen cities lodged a "protest" which demanded a freedom
of conscience and the right of minorities. Henceforth, the German Lutheran Reformers were known as "Protestants."
1529 2nd Parliament of Spires (Speyer) bans Lutheranism (Protestinism)
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs the Treaty of Frankfurt
1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet
1770 Captain James Cook first sees Australia
1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1782 Netherlands recognizes the U.S. as a nation
1861 Baltimore riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1887 Catholic University of America was chartered in Washington, D.C.
1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint
1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye first time this trip (Curacao)
1919 French assembly adopts an 8 hour work day
1921 Funeral of last German "Emperor", Empress Augusta Victoria
1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests adoption of 5 day work week
1933 FDR announces U.S. monetary system is leaving the gold standard
1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares a state of siege
1941 Robert F. Wagner, Sr. introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate stating that U.S. policy should favor the "restoration of the Jews in
Palestine." The resolution was supported by 68 Senators.
1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, killing 522
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 US Surveyor III lands on the Moon
1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched, the first manned spacelab in orbit
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life for the murder of Sharon Tate
1982 Sally Ride announced as first American woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station was put into orbit
1989 Gun turret exploded on the U.S.S. Iowa, killing 47 sailors
1993 Branch Dividians/FBI standoff in Waco, TX ends: 60 adults (4 F.B.I. agents) & 25 children died
1995 Truck bomb outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 & injuring 500
Holidays
US : John Parker Day (1775) honors minutemen
Massachusetts, Maine : Patriots Day - Boston Marathon run (1775)
Religious Observances
Christian : Commemoration of James Duckett
Anglican : Commemoration of St Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, martyr
Lutheran : Commemoration of Olavus Petri
Lutheran : Commemoration of Laurentius Petri