Today in History - 19th of April

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What Happened On This Day – 19 April

• 1995 168 die in the Oklahoma City bombing

  Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind behind the attack, was executed on June 11, 2001. The motives for the bombing, which also killed 19 babies and children, remain somewhat unclear.

• 1987 The first installment of The Simpsons is aired

  The hugely popular animated sitcom debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in the form of one-minute shorts.

• 1971 The Soviet Union launches the world's first manned space station

  Salyut 1 was 23 meters long and offered 100 cubic meters of pressurized space.

• 1919 Leslie Irvin makes the world's first free-fall parachute jump

  The jump was executed to test a new kind of parachute, which was also the first featuring a ripcord. The Hollywood stuntman broke a leg on landing.

• 1775 The American Revolutionary War begins

  The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and 13 colonies of British North America. The war resulted in U.S. independence

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Births On This Day – 19 April

• 1987 Maria Sharapova

  Russian tennis player

• 1978 James Franco

  American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

• 1952 Alexis Argüello

  Nicaraguan boxer, politician

• 1937 Joseph Estrada

  Filipino actor, producer, politician, 13th President of the Philippines

• 1933 Jayne Mansfield

  American model, actress, singer

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