April 19<\/p>\n
1775
\nThe “shot heard around the world” was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.<\/p>\n
1824
\nLord Byron died of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.<\/p>\n
1882
\nNaturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.<\/p>\n
1897
\nThe first Boston Marathon was run.<\/p>\n
1933
\nThe United States went off the gold standard.<\/p>\n
1943
\nThe Warsaw ghetto uprising began one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.<\/p>\n
1993
\nThe siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.<\/p>\n
1995
\nThe Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.<\/p>\n
2005
\nGermany’s Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Sarah Kemble Knight
\nteacher (1666)<\/p>\n
Roger Sherman
\npolitical leader (1721)<\/p>\n
Eliot Ness
\nFederal agent, Leader of the \u201cUntouchables\u201d (1903)<\/p>\n
Glenn Seaborg
\nchemist (1912)<\/p>\n
Dudley Moore
\nactor, comedian, composer (1935)<\/p>\n
Kate Hudson
\nactress (1979)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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