The Complete History of APRIL 19th [Free Republic]

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1428	The Peace of Ferrara is signed under which Milan cedes Brescia and Bergamo to Venice.
1588	Death of Paolo Veronese, one of the major painters of the 16th century Venetian school.
1689	Death of Queen Christina of Sweden. Queen from 1644-54, she abdicated because of her secret conversion to Roman Catholicism, which was proscribed in Sweden.
1713	Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issues the Pragmatic Sanction, giving women the rights of succession to Hapsburg possessions.
1775	The War of American Independence opens with the defeat of the British at Lexington and Concord.
1783	The US Congress announces the end of the War of American Independence.
1794	Britain, by the Treaty of the Hague, subsidises 60,000 Prussian and Dutch troops in coalition against France.
1839	The Treaty of London is signed, establishing recognition of the Kingdom of Belgium by all the states of Europe.
1850	The Clayton-Bulwer agreement is signed under which Britain and the US agreed not to obtain exclusive control of a proposed Panama canal.
1882	Death of Charles Darwin, English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution described in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
1899	Laos is put under the rule of a French Reùsident Supeùrieur and made part of French Indochina.
1905	The French establish the EÙcole des Sous-officiers Indigeønes in Phaû Laïi, northeastern Vieät Nam.
1906	The French launch inter-provincial telephone service between Vieät Nam’s Haø Noäi and Haûi Phoøng cities.
1906	Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist, is run over and killed in Paris. Together with his wife Marie, he worked on magnetism and radioactivity.
1921	The Government of Ireland Act goes into effect, separating the island into Southern and Northern Ireland, both with limited self-rule within Great Britain.
1933	President Franklin Roosevelt issues a proclamation removing the US from the gold standard.
1941	Birth of Döông Thò Xuaân Quyù, Vietnamese journalist and writer. She was killed during an American air attack at the southern front. Among her works published posthumously are the short story Hoa Röøng (Jungle Flowers) and a diary she kept at the front-line.
1943	Uprising of some 50,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto against Nazis begins.
1946	In a letter sent to a conference of minority ethnic groups in southern Vieät Nam, President Hoà Chí Minh reiterates that all ethnic groups in Vieät Nam are part of the Vietnamese nation and should share weal and woe and support one another.
1947	Establishment of the Traàn Höng Ñaïo Mechanical Engineering Factory, the first-born of Vieät Nam’s State-run industrial sector, in the resistance base in northern Vieät Nam during the war against French reoccupation.
1948	In the First Indochina War, Vietnamese resistance forces defeat the French army in Taàm Vu, Caàn Thô Province, inflicting 300 casualties and destroying 24 armoured vehicles.
1967	In the American war, Vietnamese liberation forces in the central region of Thöøa Thieân-Hueá defeat a major US operation supported by B52 bombers in the A So, A Löôùi areas, inflicting over 2,200 casualties and destroying almost 200 aircraft.
1971	Sierra Leone becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
1975	Vietnamese liberation forces capture Bình Thuaän Province and the township of Phan Thieát in the general offensive to liberate South Vieät Nam.
1979	In the Central African Empire, 150 children are massacred at the Ngaragba prison.
1989	Death of Daphne du Maurier, British novelist. Among the world’s best-selling authors for half a century, her period romances and adventure stories include Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and Frenchman’s Creek.
1989	Forty-seven crewmen die in an explosion on the US battleship USS Iowa during Atlantic manoeuvres.
1993	More than 80 Branch Davidians including their leader David Koresh die when federal agents storm their compound in Waco, Texas, after a 51-day stand-off.
1995	In the worst terrorist attack on US soil, a truck bomb destroys a government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are later convicted for the bombing.
1997	The first ship to sail directly to Taiwan from China in 48 years steams into Kaohsiung Port, completing a historic crossing of one of the world’s great political divides.
1998	The leaders of 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere gather at the Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile, and agree to take steps to create the world’s largest free trade zone.
1999	German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder declares a new "Berlin Republic" as parliament sat for the first time in Berlin’s newly renovated Reichstag. — VNS/REUTERS/AP

"Rebel planes bombed Havana during the night, but otherwise, rebel hopes for a successful invasion of Cuba were fading today. As Fidel Castro moved to repel the force that struck Sunday, there were indications that the invaders were unable to expand their slim beachhead. And failure of any nationwide uprising to materialize dimmed any hope that the rebels might be helped from within."

Uprising of some 50,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

As I understand it, very few people actually particpated in the uprising. This incident is a great lesson in what a few armed and determined people can do to frustrate tyranny.