April 19

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• 1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews for re-location, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas.
• 2005 - Benedict XVI becomes Pope by election in papal conclave.

[edit] Births

• 1922 - Erich Hartmann, German, world's most successful fighter pilot (352 'kills'; d. 1993)

[edit] Deaths

• 1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
• 1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
• 1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
• 1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Female labour camp guard (b. 1919)