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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1810 – An expanded municipal government of Caracas deposed Captain General Vicente Emparán and established the First Republic of Venezuela. | needs more footnotes |
| 1839 – The signing of the Treaty of London formally recognised Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | appears on August 4 (that date needs more articles) |
| 1861 – American Civil War: The first bloodshed of the war took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C. | lots of {{cn}} tags (7) |
| 1904 – A fire destroyed downtown Toronto, destroying 104 buildings and causing CAN$10,350,000 in damage. | refimprove |
| 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the German occupation. | refimprove section |
| 1960 – Students in South Korea held a nationwide pro-democracy protest against President Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Mount Carmel Center, the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect outside Waco, Texas, ended when a fire broke out, killing over 70 people. | lots of CN tags (8), mostly in one section |
| 2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave. | refimprove section |
| * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Gaius Calpurnius Piso's plot to kill Roman emperor Nero, leading to the arrest of the conspirators. | Tagged for reliance on primary sources |
| * 797 – Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene. | Article gives date of 19 August |
| Sarah Bagley |b|1806| | Sources conflict |
Eligible
- 1506 – In Lisbon, a crowd began a massacre of Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity.
- 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issued the Pragmatic Sanction, allowing the Habsburg hereditary possessions to be inherited by a daughter.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.
- 1782 – The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the first United States embassy.
- 1903 – Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia Governorate, causing the death of nearly 50 Jews and focusing worldwide attention on the persecution of Jews in Russia.
- 1956 – American actress Grace Kelly (pictured) became the princess consort of Monaco upon her marriage to Rainier III.
- 1971 – Salyut 1, the first space station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in the Soviet Union.
- 1971 – The Doors' L.A. Woman was released, their final album during Jim Morrison's lifetime.
- 1984 – "Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Queen" as Australia's national anthem.
- 1995 – A car bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.
- 2015 – Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American, died of injuries sustained while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department.
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Notes
- The midnight ride of Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott is listed on April 18, so Battles of Lexington and Concord should not appear in the same year
April 19: Feast day of Saint Alphege of Canterbury (Catholicism, Anglicanism), Education and Sharing Day in the United States (2024), Primrose Day in London
- 1773 – The Polish Partition Sejm met to discuss the First Partition of Poland, carried out the previous year by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
- 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
- 1927 – American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her play Sex.
- 1989 – A gun turret exploded on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- Uesugi Kenshin (d. 1578)
- Elizabeth Dilling (b. 1894)
- Denis O'Brien (b. 1958)