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April 19:

Book releases
 * 2007 - The Last Dodo, a science fiction novel by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long running television series Doctor Who
 * 2007 - Sting of the Zygons, a science fiction novel by Stephen Cole and based on the long running television series Doctor Who
 * 2007 - Wooden Heart, a science fiction novel by Martin Day and based on the long running television series Doctor Who

Film releases
 * 1973 - Soylent Green, an American science fiction film depicting a dystopian future
 * 1996 - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, a theatrical adaptation of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * 1998 - Brave New World, a made-for-TV science fiction film loosely based on Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World
 * 2002 - The Scorpion King, an American fantasy adventure film
 * 2003 - Threshold, a Sci Fi Pictures original film adaptation of the 1958 film It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Television series
 * 1977 - The Amazing Spider-Man begins airing on CBS
 * 1987 - The Simpsons shorts first appear on the The Tracey Ullman Show

Births
 * 1967 - Steven H Silver, an American science fiction fan and bibliographer, publisher, and editor
 * 1978 - K. Tempest Bradford, an African-American science fiction and fantasy author and editor

Deaths
 * 1978 - J. Francis McComas (b. 1910), an American science fiction editor