April 19th
Today in America's Present Past
1684 | Pioneer Roger Williams died.
1721 | Founder Roger Sherman was born.
1775 | War of Independence: Battle of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
1775 | War of Independence: Americans begin a siege of the British in Boston.
1787 | Frontiersman Deaf Smith was born.
1813 | Founder Benjamin Rush died.
1832 | POTUS: First Lady Lucretia Garfield was born.
1861 | Civil War: Baltimore’s “Pratt Street” riots start.
1903 | Lawman Eliot Ness was born.
1914 | Scientist Charles Peirce died.
1930 | Publisher Charles Scribner II died.
1932 | POTUS: Republican President Hoover proposes a five-day work week.
1933 | Actress Jayne Mansfield was born.
1933 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt announces that the US will leave the gold standard.
1951 | General Douglas MacArthur retires.
1971 | Charles Manson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Sharon Tate.
1975 | Chemist Percy Lavon Julian died.
1978 | Actor James Franco was born.
1987 | General Maxwell D. Taylor died.
1993 | FBI Massacre at Waco.
1995 | War on Terror: Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh.
2021 | Politician Walter Mondale died.