Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19

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 * 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.
 * Born/died: | Eanflæd |b|626| Jagat Gosain |d|1619| George St Lo |b|1655| Elizabeth Raffald |d|1781| Benjamin Rush |d|1813| Sydney Barnes |b|1873| Ernst Rüdin |b|1874| Benjamin Disraeli |d|1881| Jiroemon Kimura |b|1897| Glenn T. Seaborg |b|1912 Michel Roux |b|1941| Lo Kauppi |b|1970| Hermine Braunsteiner |d|1999| Aaron Hernandez |d|2017 |Kwon Ki-ok |d|1988}}