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This Day in History, Wikipedia

• Christian feast day: Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic)^[92], Conrad of Ascoli, Emma of Lesum, Expeditus, George of Antioch, Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran), Pope Leo IX, Ursmar, April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)1/26
• 2021 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.^[20]2/26
• 2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.^[18][19]3/26
• 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown. 4/26
• 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961. 5/26
• 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. 6/26
• 2001 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.^[17] 7/26
• 2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.^[16] 8/26
• 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. 9/26
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six. 10/26
• 1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire. 11/26
• 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors. 12/26
• 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". 13/26
• 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. 14/26
• 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. 15/26
• 1976 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.^[14][15] 16/26
• 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. 17/26
• 1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. 18/26
• 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. 19/26
• 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. 20/26
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. 21/26
• 1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. 22/26
• 1942 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. 23/26
• 1936 – The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.^[12] 24/26
• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. 25/26
• 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. 26/26