What are the important events that happened on April 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 19 is the 109^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 6, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,745,020,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaenneagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 304 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,502 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 19 Historical Events

• 65 –
  The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators were arrested.
• 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.
• 1855 –
  Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
• 1892 –
  Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1928 –
  The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1945 –
  Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
• 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.
• 1961 –
  The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
• 1984 –
  Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
• 1999 –
  The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Who were born on April 19?

• 1793 –
  Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
• 1899 –
  George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1932 –
  Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
• 1949 –
  Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
• 1959 –
  Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
• 1967 –
  Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
• 1981 –
  James Hibberd, British cricketer
• 1983 –
  Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 –
  Joe Mauer, American baseball player
• 1984 –
  Christopher Pearce, British cricketer

Who died on April 19?

• 1321 –
  Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
• 1578 –
  Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
• 1854 –
  Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
• 1949 –
  Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1988 –
  Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
• 1993 –
  David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
• 2004 –
  Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• 2005 –
  Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
• 2007 –
  Helen Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
• 2011 –
  Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)