Sierra Leone - Republic Day
Swaziland - National day (Birthday of King Mswati III)
USA - Patriots' Day to commemorate the battles of Lexington and Concord. on 19 April 1775
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots%27_Day
531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persian at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria).
1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1775 - At dawn in Massachusetts, about 70 armed militiamen stood face to face on Lexington Green with a British advance guard unit. An unordered 'shot heard around the world' began the American Revolution. A volley of British rifle fire was followed by a charge with bayonets leaving eight Americans dead and ten wounded.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1975 – India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched.
Birthdays
1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
History Events Video
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19 April Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
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