Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. In the late 1920s, Mae West was already pushing boundaries…
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19 April 1608
In Ireland, O’Doherty’s Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry. O’Doherty’s Rebellion in 1608 was a brief yet significant uprising in early 17th-century Ireland,…
19 April 1927
Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. Mae West, a bold and charismatic figure in American entertainment,…
19 April 1903
The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world. The Kishinev…
19 April 1987
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
19 April 2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a…
19 April 1770
Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia. On April 19, 1770, Captain James Cook spotted and claimed the East Coast…
19 April 1971
The first space station, Salyut 1 is launched. Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the…
19 April 2013
The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is killed in a shootout with police. An investigation involving more than 1,000 federal, state and…