April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
Historical Events for April, 1919
Day of Week 1st » The Bauhaus or Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
Day of Week 6th » Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
Day of Week 10th » Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
Day of Week 11th » The International Labour Organization is founded.
Day of Week 13th » The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
13th » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
13th » Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against Conscription in the United States named the draft during World War I.
Day of Week 16th » Mahatma Gandhi or Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the United Kingdom called British colonial troops three days earlier.
16th » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish Land Forces e.g Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
Day of Week 19th » Leslie Irvin (parachutist) known as Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1919
1st » Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
3rd » Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (d. 2008)
6th » Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998)
7th » Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1992)
7th » Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (d. 2012)
8th » Ian Smith, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
9th » J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (d. 1995)
10th » John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
11th » Raymond Carr, English historian and academic
12th » István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer (d. 2012)
12th » Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (d. 1991)
13th » Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
13th » Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
13th » Phil Tonken, American voice actor (d. 2000)