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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 19
- 500th: 1524 - Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-General French Van de Holly.
- 250th: 1774 - CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis", premieres in Paris France.
- 100th: 1924 - 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:29:40.2.
- 90th: 1934 - 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Dickie Goodman; parody singer ("Flying Saucer").
- 80th: 1944 - Allied fleet attacks Sabang Sumatra.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Bernard Worrell; American keyboardist (Funkadelic - "Cosmic Slop").
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Mark "Flo" Volman; rocker (Flo and Eddie, Turtles - "Eleanor")/DJ (WKRK).
- 80th: 1944 - Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 1927), dies at age 44.
- 70th: 1954 - 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39. Seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th.
- 70th: 1954 - Joe Laurie Junior, comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at age 61.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Harris Barton; NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Scott Kamienicki; pitcher (New York Yankees).
- 60th: 1964 - Cyril Merry, cricket player (West Indies batsman in two Tests 1933), dies.
- 60th: 1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational.
- 60th: 1964 - Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier.
- 60th: 1964 - Roger Sessions' opera Montezuma premieres in West Berlin.
- 50th: 1974 - Baltimore Orioles' player Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park homerun against the New York Yankees.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Ante Moric; Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-1996).
- 40th: 1984 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 40th: 1984 - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs first appears in print (Nature magazine).
- 30th: 1994 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88).
- 30th: 1994 - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election.
- 30th: 1994 - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at age 43.
- 30th: 1994 - Rodney King awarded US$3,800,000 in compensation for police beating.
- 30th: 1994 - US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender.
- 25th: 1999 - The US Navy kills a civilian guard in the Naval Base at Vieques, an island east of Puerto Rico which the Navy has used since 1943. The death of the civilian officer sparks off a civil disobedience campaign throughout the island of Puerto Rico to protest the presence of the Navy on the island.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (born 1925).
- 15th: 2009 - English author J.G. Ballard (Crash, Empire of the Sun) dies at age 78 after a long illness (born 1930).
- 15th: 2009 - In Shanghai, People's Republic of China, round 3 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Sebastian Vettel.
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