70 years ago, a April 19, 1956they got married on Prince Rainier of Monacoday the American actress Grace Kelly.
1713.- Charles VI of Germany promulgates the Pragmatic Sanction that ensures the female succession to the throne in the hereditary countries of the Habsburgs.
1775.- Battle of Lexington, the first military clash between English and American forces in the US War of Independence.
1839.- The Treaty of London is signed, recognizing Belgium as a kingdom.
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1850.- Great Britain and the United States sign the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, by which both nations undertake not to maintain any control over the future Panama Canal.
1919.- American Leslie Irvin makes the first parachute jump.
1941.- The Museum of America is created in Madrid, with the aim of bringing together the collections of American archeology and ethnology.
1960.- The first match of the Copa Libertadores Soccer Cup is played.
1961.- Cuban troops defeat an army of more than 1,300 anti-Castro mercenaries and exiles who had landed in the Bay of Pigs.
1970.- The revolutionary group April 19 Movement, M-19, is born in Colombia.
1971.- The Soviet Union launches Salyut 1, the first space station controlled by man.
1987.- An episode of ‘The Simpsons’ is broadcast for the first time in the United States.
1990.- The Government of Nicaragua and the anti-Sandinista rebels sign a definitive ceasefire.
1992.- The Kings of Spain preside in the Granada town of Santa Fe over the events of the fifth centenary of the signing of the Capitulations.
1993.- David Koresch and 85 other people, including 17 children, from the sect he founded, die in the fire at the Monte Carmelo ranch in Waco (Texas, USA).
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1995.- José María Aznar, leader of the PP, the main opposition party in Spain, emerges unharmed from a car bomb attack perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA in Madrid.
.- A truck loaded with explosives explodes in front of a government building in Oklahoma City and leaves 168 dead, the deadliest terrorist act on US soil until then.
2005.- German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger succeeds John Paul II as Pope with the name Benedict XVI.
.- The Spanish Justice condemns the former Argentine military man Adolfo Scilingo to 640 years in prison for illegal detention and torture during the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), in the first resolution for crimes against humanity issued in Spain.
2006.- Han Myung-sook, the first woman in the history of South Korea to occupy the head of the Government.
2011.- Fidel Castro resigns as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and his brother Raúl is elected.
2015.- Around 850 immigrants disappear in the waters of the Sicilian Channel when they were trying to reach the coasts of Italy.
2021.- NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter makes the first controlled, powered flight of an aircraft on another planet, Mars.
1832.- José Echegaray, politician, first Spaniard to obtain the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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1932.- Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor.
1940.- José Luis Gómez, Spanish theater actor and director.
1941.- Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer and composer.
1949.- Paloma Picasso, French designer and painter.
1955.- José Mercé, Spanish singer.
1958.- Roberto López-Ufarte, Spanish footballer and coach.
1960.- Gustavo Petro, Colombian politician.
1970.- Luis Miguel, Mexican singer.
1972.- Vitor Barbosa Ferreira, ‘Rivaldo’, Brazilian footballer.
1978.- James Franco, American actor.
1979.- Kate Hudson, American actress.
1987.- María Sharapova, Russian tennis player.
1588.- Paolo Veronese, Italian painter.
1824.- George Gordon, Lord Byron, English romantic writer.
1882.- Charles Darwin, British naturalist.
1906.- Pierre Curie, French scientist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.
1967.- Konrad Adenauer, German politician.
1998.- Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and essayist.
2015.- Raymond Carr, British Hispanist.
2016.- Patricio Aylwin, former Chilean president
2021.- Walter Mondale, American politician.
