April 19, 1770
Lt. James Cook sights the east of coast of what would become known as
Australia.
1951
Gen. Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1971
Charles Manson is sentencd to death fro the
Tate-LaBianca murders.
1985
ATF and FBI agents lay siege to
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
1987
The Simpsons premieres as a short on
The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989
A gun turret explodes on the
USS Iowa, killing 47.
1993
The 51 day FBI siege of the
Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas ends when fire breaks out in one of the buildings. 81 are killed.
South Dakota governor
George Mickelson is killed, along with seven others, when a state-owned plane crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.
1995
The
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is bombed, killing 168 people.
1997
Fire breaks out in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which is inundated by the
Red River Flood. Eleven buildings are destroyed.
2011
Fidel Castro resigns as
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a title he'd held since July 1961.
2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police.
Births
Ole Evinrude-1877; Eliot Ness-1903; Jack Roush-1942; Tim Curry-1946; Ashley Judd-1968; Jesse James (bike builder)-1969
Deaths
Lord Byron-1824; Charles Darwin-1882; Pierre Curie-1906;
Jim Corbett-1955; David Koresh, George Mickelson-1993; Ruth Hussey-2005; Allan Arbus (Dr. Sidney Freedman on MASH), Al Neuharth, Tamerlan Tsarnaev-2013; Freddie Gray-2015