April 19: Feast of Saint Alphege (Western Christianity)
Nazi troops round up Warsaw Ghetto residents
- 797 – Byzantine emperor Constantine VI was captured, blinded, and imprisoned by the supporters of his mother Irene.
- 1713 – With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction to ensure one of his daughters would inherit the Habsburg lands.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The first bloodshed of the war took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Nazi troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews (pictured), sparking the first mass uprising in Poland against the German occupation.
- 1989 – A gun turret on board the United States Navy battleship Iowa exploded, killing 47 sailors.
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