April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events[link]

• 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
• 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
• 1529 – The Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism; a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
• 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
• 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
• 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the 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.
• 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
• 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
• 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
• 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
• 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
• 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
• 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
• 1948 – Burma joins the United Nations.
• 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
• 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
• 1955 – The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
• 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
• 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
• 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
• 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
• 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
• 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.

Heavy smoke pours from USS Iowa’s #2 Turret following an internal explosion

• 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
• 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
• 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
• 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
• 1997 – The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
• 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
• 2005 – His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
• 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

Births[link]

• 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
• 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1669)
• 1613 – Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1661)
• 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
• 1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer (d. 1716)
• 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
• 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
• 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (d. 1783)
• 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
• 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer (d. 1786)
• 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
• 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
• 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
• 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
• 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
• 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
• 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
• 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian mathematician (d. 1953)
• 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
• 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
• 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian and oldest living person in Japan
• 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
• 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
• 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Gene Leis, American jazz guitarist, educator, bandleader, composer, and producer (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German pilot (d. 1993)
• 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
• 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society) (d. 1984)
• 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
• 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
• 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
• 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
• 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American music producer (d. 1989)
• 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Justin Rigali, American cardinal
• 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium
• 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
• 1937 – Joseph Estrada, Philippine actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• 1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist and scholar
• 1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
• 1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer(Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive)
• 1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer and composer
• 1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975)
• 1942 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals)
• 1942 – Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
• 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
• 1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player
• 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
• 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist and composer (Parliament-Funkadelic, Praxis, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains)
• 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
• 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
• 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
• 1947 – Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles and The Mothers Of Invention)
• 1948 – Stuart McLean, Canadian radio host
• 1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player
• 1949 – Paloma Picasso, French-Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman
• 1949 – Larry Walters, American pilot (d. 1993)
• 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
• 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1952 – Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
• 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American drummer and educator (Winger, Dixie Dregs, Platypus, and The Jelly Jam)
• 1953 – Ruby Wax, American comedian
• 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer
• 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian musician and producer (The Payolas)
• 1956 – Sue Barker, British tennis player and sports presenter
• 1956 – Randy Carlyle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
• 1957 – Tony Martin, English singer and musician (Black Sabbath and Phenomena)
• 1958 – Steve Antin, American actor and director
• 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian social scientist and educator
• 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian musician, composer and producer
• 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
• 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
• 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
• 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player
• 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
• 1963 – Valerie Plame, American C.I.A. agent and author
• 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer
• 1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
• 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer and executive
• 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
• 1966 – Brett Gladman, Canadian astronomer
• 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
• 1966 – Osamu Matsuda, Japanese wrestler
• 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer-songwriter, producer, author, and actor
• 1967 – Steven H Silver, American editor
• 1967 – Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and musician (Cry Cry Cry)
• 1967 – Philippe Saint-André, French rugby player and coach
• 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
• 1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician, and composer
• 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
• 1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
• 1969 – Andrew Carnie, Canadian educator and writer
• 1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder
• 1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess player
• 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete
• 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
• 1971 – Gad Elmaleh, French-Moroccan comedian and actor
• 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
• 1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
• 1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
• 1973 – George Gregan, Australian rugby player
• 1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
• 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
• 1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch musician (Within Temptation)
• 1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player
• 1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
• 1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
• 1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
• 1977 – Jonny Storm, English wrestler
• 1978 – James Franco, American actor
• 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – Amanda Sage, American artist
• 1979 – Rocky Bernard, American football player
• 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
• 1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
• 1979 – Nicole Raczynski, American wrestler
• 1980 – Jason Blaine, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Nick Groff, English-American paranormal investigator
• 1980 – Robyn Regehr, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
• 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
• 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
• 1981 – Martin Havlat, Czech ice hockey player
• 1981 – Kasie Head, American model, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002
• 1981 – James Hibberd, British cricketer
• 1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai actress
• 1981 – Antonio Mendes, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
• 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
• 1982 – Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast
• 1982 – Cassandra Morris, American actress, editor, and writer
• 1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Ignacio Serricchio, American actor
• 1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 – Zack Duke, American baseball player
• 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
• 1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
• 1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
• 1984 – Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Christopher Pearce, English cricketer
• 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss footballer
• 1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
• 1986 – Maxine, American wrestler and manager
• 1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
• 1986 – Heather Kuzmich, American model
• 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
• 1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
• 1986 – Will Thursfield, British footballer
• 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
• 1987 – David Cavazos, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
• 1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
• 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer
• 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
• 1987 – Lauren Wilson, Canadian figure skater
• 1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Saya Yūki, Japanese actress
• 1989 – Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian singer (The Cottars)
• 1989 – Dominik Mader, German footballer
• 1989 – Belinda Owusu, English actress
• 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
• 1990 – Himchan, South Korean singer (B.A.P)
• 1990 – Kim Chiu, Chinese-Filipino actress
• 1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French footballer
• 1990 – Teo Olivares, American actor
• 1990 – Patrick Wiegers, German footballer
• 1991 – Steve Cook, British footballer
• 1991 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48 and no3b)
• 1992 – Paul-Jose M'Poku, Belgian footballer
• 1993 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
• 1995 – Akira Saitō, Japanese actress
• 1996 – London Freeman, American actress

Deaths[link]

• 1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
• 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
• 1321 – Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
• 1390 – Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
• 1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
• 1567 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
• 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
• 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
• 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
• 1618 – Thomas Bastard, English clergyman (b. 1566)
• 1627 – John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
• 1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
• 1684 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
• 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
• 1689 – Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
• 1733 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
• 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
• 1751 – Peter Lacy, Irish-Russian field marshal (b. 1678)
• 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
• 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian (b. 1745)
• 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
• 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
• 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
• 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
• 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
• 1892 – T. Pelham Dale, English clergyman (b. 1821)
• 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American writer and businessman, founder of The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
• 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1906 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
• 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
• 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor, designer, and entrepreneur (b. 1839)
• 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
• 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman, statesman, and senator (b. 1827)
• 1937 – William Martin Conway, British critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
• 1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian conservationist, author and hunter (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and author (b. 1894)
• 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931)
• 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
• 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
• 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot, first female pilot in Korea (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-Australian producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
• 1993 – David Koresh, American religious leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
• 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
• 1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
• 1999 – David Sanes, American navy employee (b. 1954)
• 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English Khalifatul Masih IV and Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish writer and activist co-founder of The Freedom Association (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
• 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek director (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
• 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Helen Walton, American businesswomen, wife of Sam Walton (b. 1919)
• 2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
• 2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (b. 1935)
• 2009 – J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (b. 1961)
• 2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
• 2010 – Carl Williams, Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970)
• 2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)
• 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild, English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Greg Ham, Australian musician, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work) (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (The Band) (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Gustaf Jansson, Swedish athlete (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Murtaza Razvi, Pakistani journalist (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances[link]

• Beginning of the Independence Movement (Venezuela)
• Bicycle Day
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Ælfheah of Canterbury
  • Emma of Lesum
  • Expeditus
  • George of Antioch
  • Pope Leo IX
  • April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States)
• Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18. (Iceland)
• King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
• Landing of the 33 (Uruguay)
• National Health Day (Kiribati)
• Primrose Day (United Kingdom)

External links[link]

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