Historical Events for 19th April 2023

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April 19, 2023 in Today in History

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Posted April 19, 2023

1619 - Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1775 - New England militiamen begin the siege of Boston, hemming in the British army garrison
1919 - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1943 - Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1959 - Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1964 - Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1968 - Belgian construction workers strike
1982 - Sally Ride is named the 1st American woman astronaut
1999 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2013 - Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days