Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19

April 19:

Damage to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building before cleanup began.

• 1775 - The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

• 1839 - The signing of the Treaty of London formally recognised Belgian independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

• 1971 - The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched.

• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: A car bomb was detonated in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (pictured) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people.

• 2005 - Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave.

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• March 31
• April 1
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