📜 This Day in History
April 19
1506In Lisbon, Portugal, a crowd began a massacre of Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity.- 1782The States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the first United States embassy.
- 1903Anti-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.
- 1975Aryabhata, India's first satellite, was launched from Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.
- 1995A truck bombing destroyed much of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.
- 2020A series of attacks in Nova Scotia, Canada, ended when the perpetrator was killed by police, leaving 22 victims dead.
