Today is
April 19, the 109th day of 2017.
Tripsters will be celebrating
Bicycle Day today, commemorating the day that Albert Hofman intentionally ingested 0.25 milligrams of lysergic acid diethylamide, and had to be escorted home by his lab assistant. Since the use of cars was prohibited by wartime restrictions, they rode bicycles.
Today is also
Dutch-American Friendship Day, as well as
Primrose Day in the U.K., commemorating the anniversary of the death of
Benjamin Disraeli.
Events
1892
Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1927
Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play
Sex.
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the TateLaBianca murders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%E...Bianca_murders.
1980 - 32 year old English singer
Brian Johnson joined Australian group
AC/DC, replacing
Bon Scott who had died after a drinks binge in February 1980.
1985 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
1987
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on
The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with
Good Night.
1989 A
gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 The 51-day FBI
siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1995
Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 The
1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
2005 Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2013
Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother
Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
1787 Deaf Smith, 1877 Ole Evinrude, 1903 Eliot Ness, 1930 Dick Sargent, 1933 Jayne Mansfield, 1935 Dudley Moore, 1942 Jack Roush (founded Roush Fenway Racing), 1946 Tim Curry, 1954 Bob Rock♪ ♫(producer), 1957 Tony Martin♪ ♫, 1962 Al Unser Jr.

, 1965 Suge Knight♪ ♫, 1968 Ashley Judd, 1978 James Franco, 1979 Kate Hudson
1881 Benjamin Disraeli, 1906 Pierre Curie, 1955 Jim Corbett, 1993 David Koresh, 2004 Norris McWhirter, 2005 Ruth Hussey, 2006 Albert Scott Crossfield, 2012 Levon Helm, 2013 Allan Arbus, 2013 Al Neuharth (founded USA Today), 2017 Aaron Hernandez