Birthday Fun

According to Wikipedia, here are just a few of the things that have happened on April 19th (my birthday).

Events:

1012 - Martyrdom of St Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1587 - Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.
1692 - Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord – British General Thomas Gage attempts to confiscate American colonists' firearms. Captain John Parker orders his band of minutemen to not fire unless fired upon. Random shots rang out among the British soldiers. The minutemen promptly fired back. This was the "shot heard round the world." The British are driven back to Boston, Massachusetts, thus beginning the American Revolutionary War.
1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
1927 - Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to life in prison for the Sharon Tate murders.
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
2005 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.


Births:

1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1504)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1970 - Luis Miguel, Puerto Rican singer
1972 - Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor


Deaths:

1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1993 - David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee whose death led to Navy's withdrawal from Puerto Rico
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances:
Easter Sunday falls on April 19th more often than on any other date.


Well... That's quite enough of that.