Grace Kelly Wedding
The following is your daily snapshot of what happened on this day in history: April 19th. One of the many highlights of this day in history is the marriage between Hollywood actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress of Irish and German heritage and Princess consort of Monaco. In April 1956, Kelly married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and was commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
BORN THIS DAY:
April 19, 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
April 19, 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
April 19, 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
April 19, 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
April 19, 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
April 19, 1772 – David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
April 19, 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
April 19, 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
April 19, 1793 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
April 19, 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
April 19, 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
April 19, 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
April 19, 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
April 19, 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
April 19, 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
April 19, 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
April 19, 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
April 19, 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
April 19, 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian
April 19, 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
April 19, 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
April 19, 1899 – George O’Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
April 19, 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
April 19, 1900 – Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
April 19, 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
April 19, 1907 – Alan Wheatley, English actor (d. 1991)
April 19, 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
April 19, 1920 – Gene Leis, American Jazz guitarist and educator (d. 1993)
April 19, 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (d. 2006)
April 19, 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
April 19, 1925 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor
April 19, 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician and first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
April 19, 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
April 19, 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
April 19, 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor
April 19, 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
April 19, 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
April 19, 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
April 19, 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
April 19, 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
April 19, 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
April 19, 1935 – Justin Rigali, American Roman Catholic cardinal
April 19, 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
April 19, 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
April 19, 1937 – Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
April 19, 1938 – Stanley Fish, American literary theorist and legal scholar
April 19, 1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
April 19, 1940 – Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
April 19, 1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
April 19, 1941 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
April 19, 1941 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
April 19, 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975)
April 19, 1942 – Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
April 19, 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
April 19, 1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player
April 19, 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
April 19, 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
April 19, 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
April 19, 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
April 19, 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 19, 1947 – Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles, The Mothers Of Invention)
April 19, 1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player
April 19, 1949 – Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
April 19, 1949 – Larry Walters, American “lawn chair” pilot (d. 1993)
April 19, 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
April 19, 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
April 19, 1952 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
April 19, 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
April 19, 1953 – Ruby Wax, British television personality
April 19, 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer
April 19, 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
April 19, 1956 – Sue Barker, BBC Sports Presenter & former Tennis Professional.
April 19, 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
April 19, 1957 – Tony Martin, English musician
April 19, 1959 – Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
April 19, 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
April 19, 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
April 19, 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
April 19, 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player
April 19, 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
April 19, 1963 – Valerie Plame Wilson, American former C.I.A. agent
April 19, 1964 – Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer
April 19, 1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
April 19, 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer
April 19, 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
April 19, 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
April 19, 1966 – Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
April 19, 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer
April 19, 1967 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
April 19, 1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
April 19, 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
April 19, 1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
April 19, 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
April 19, 1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
April 19, 1969 – Andrew Carnie, Linguistics Professor at the University of Arizona
April 19, 1969 – Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
April 19, 1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
April 19, 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete
April 19, 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer
April 19, 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
April 19, 1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American football player
April 19, 1973 – Alessio Scarpi, Italian footballer
April 19, 1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
April 19, 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
April 19, 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
April 19, 1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
April 19, 1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player
April 19, 1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
April 19, 1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
April 19, 1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
April 19, 1978 – James Franco, American actor
April 19, 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
April 19, 1978 – Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
April 19, 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
April 19, 1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer
April 19, 1979 – Matthew Pace, American entrepreneur
April 19, 1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
April 19, 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
April 19, 1981 – Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
April 19, 1981 – Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
April 19, 1981 – James Hibberd, British cricketer
April 19, 1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Thai film actress
April 19, 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
April 19, 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
April 19, 1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand All Black rugby player
April 19, 1982 – Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
April 19, 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Zack Duke, American baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
April 19, 1983 – Patrick Platins, German footballer
April 19, 1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
April 19, 1984 – Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
April 19, 1984 – Christopher Pearce, British cricketer
April 19, 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
April 19, 1985 – Jan Zimmermann, German goalkeeper
April 19, 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
April 19, 1986 – Pascal Angan, Beninese footballer
April 19, 1986 – Gabe Pruitt, American basketball player
April 19, 1986 – Will Thursfield, British footballer
April 19, 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
April 19, 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
April 19, 1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor
April 19, 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer
April 19, 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian-born professional tennis player
April 19, 1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
April 19, 1989 – Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
April 19, 1989 – Dominik Mader, German football player
April 19, 1989 – Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
April 19, 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
April 19, 1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French football player
April 19, 1991 – Steve Cook, British footballer
April 19, 1992 – Paul-Jose M’Poku, Belgian professional footballer
DIED THIS DAY:
April 19, 1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
April 19, 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
April 19, 1321 – Gerasimus I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (b. unknown)
April 19, 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
April 19, 1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
April 19, 1567 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
April 19, 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
April 19, 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
April 19, 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
April 19, 1618 – Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist
April 19, 1627 – John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
April 19, 1629 – Sigismondo d’India, Italian composer
April 19, 1684 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
April 19, 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
April 19, 1689 – Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
April 19, 1733 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
April 19, 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
April 19, 1751 – Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
April 19, 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
April 19, 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
April 19, 1813 – Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
April 19, 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
April 19, 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
April 19, 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (b. 1756)
April 19, 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
April 19, 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
April 19, 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
April 19, 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
April 19, 1892 – T. Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
April 19, 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
April 19, 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
April 19, 1906 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
April 19, 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
April 19, 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
April 19, 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
April 19, 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
April 19, 1937 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
April 19, 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
April 19, 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
April 19, 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
April 19, 1966 – Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
April 19, 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
April 19, 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b.1899)
April 19, 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
April 19, 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
April 19, 1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
April 19, 1992 – Bryan Castiglione, born on this day. socom release also on said day.
April 19, 1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
April 19, 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
April 19, 1993 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (b. 1938)
April 19, 1997 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
April 19, 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
April 19, 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
April 19, 1999 – David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
April 19, 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
April 19, 2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
April 19, 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
April 19, 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
April 19, 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
April 19, 2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
April 19, 2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
April 19, 2006 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
April 19, 2006 – Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
April 19, 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
April 19, 2007 – Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
April 19, 2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
April 19, 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
April 19, 2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
April 19, 2009 – J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
April 19, 2010 – Keith “Guru” Elam, American rapper (b. 1966)
April 19, 2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
April 19, 2010 – Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
April 19, 2010 – Burkhard Ziese, German football manager (b. 1944)
APRIL 19TH MEMORABLE EVENTS:
April 19, 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and the conspirators were all arrested.
April 19, 1012 – Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
April 19, 1529 – At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
April 19, 1587 – Francis Drake’s expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
April 19, 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).
April 19, 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of Australia.
April 19, 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
April 19, 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
April 19, 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.
April 19, 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 which ended in a French victory.
April 19, 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
April 19, 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom.
April 19, 1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
April 19, 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
April 19, 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
April 19, 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
April 19, 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
April 19, 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
April 19, 1936 – First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
April 19, 1942 – World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
April 19, 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
April 19, 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
April 19, 1945 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
April 19, 1948 – Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
April 19, 1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
April 19, 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
April 19, 1954 – Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
April 19, 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.
April 19, 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
April 19, 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
April 19, 1961 – The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
April 19, 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
April 19, 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
April 19, 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
April 19, 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
April 19, 1975 – India’s first satellite Aryabhata is launched.
April 19, 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia’s national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 19, 1985 – FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
April 19, 1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
April 19, 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
April 19, 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
April 19, 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
April 19, 1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
April 19, 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.
April 19, 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.
April 19, 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
MEMORABLE QUOTE:
“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.” (Grace Kelly)
