On This Day: April 19, 2018
Birthdays:| 1900 | Richard Hughes, Novelist | | 1925 | Hugh O'Brien, American actor | | 1933 | Jayne Mansfield, American actress | | 1935 | Dudley Moore, Comedy actor & TV star, Partner of Peter Cook | | 1946 | Tim Curry, Actor | | 1947 | Trevor Francis, English footballer & manager | | 1956 | Sue Barker, Tennis player and broadcaster |
Events:| 1587 | English captain Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour | | 1775 | The American War of Independence, against the British, began | | 1882 | Charles Darwin, the developer of the theory of evolution, died | | 1951 | The first 'Miss World' contest was held in London, as part of the Festival of Britain | | 1956 | Film star Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco | | 1971 | The Soviet Union launched the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1 | | 1972 | Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth | | 1982 | The Soviet Union launched the Salyut 7 space station | | 1995 | A massive bomb explosion destroyed much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA |
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