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Historical Events for 19th April 2024


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1775 - New England militiamen begin the siege of Boston, hemming in the British army garrison
1825 - 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1919 - French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1928 - New York Yankees are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1956 - 1st MLB baseball game in New Jersey - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4, at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
1993 - After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)
1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh sets a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168. including 19 children, and injuring 500
2015 - Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued.
2020 - UK COVID-19 death toll reaches 16,060 (hospitals only), as "The Sunday Times" criticizes Boris Johnson's government's response, saying they "sleepwalked into disaster"
2022 - US Biden administration restores climate impacts and community say to the National Environmental Policy Act, previously removed by Donald Trump

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