What happend on 19th April

18.04
20.04
2005

Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.

2000

An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.

1999

The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.

1995

Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.

1993

The 50-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.

1989

Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger" is raped.

1989

A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

1980

In The Hague, Netherlands, Johnny Logan wins the twenty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "What's Another Year".

1978

Lagumot Harris is elected President of Nauru.

1971

Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.