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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_19" title="April 19">April 19</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfheah_of_Canterbury" title="Ælfheah of Canterbury">Saint Alphege of Canterbury</a></b> (Catholicism, Anglicanism), <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primrose_Day" title="Primrose Day">Primrose Day</a></b> in London
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1773" title="1773">1773</a> – The Polish <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_Sejm" title="Partition Sejm">Partition Sejm</a></b> met to discuss the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Partition_of_Poland" title="First Partition of Poland">First Partition of Poland</a></b>, carried out the previous year by Russia, Prussia and Austria.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809" title="1809">1809</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Fifth_Coalition" title="War of the Fifth Coalition">War of the Fifth Coalition</a>: French general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Davout" title="Louis-Nicolas Davout">Louis-Nicolas Davout</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teugen-Hausen" title="Battle of Teugen-Hausen">defeated</a></b> an Austrian force in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Bavaria" title="Lower Bavaria">Lower Bavaria</a>, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927" title="1927">1927</a> – American actress <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West" title="Mae West">Mae West</a></b> was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" for her play <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_(play)" title="Sex (play)">Sex</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">gun turret</a> on board the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> battleship <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61)" title="USS Iowa (BB-61)"><i>Iowa</i></a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion" title="USS Iowa turret explosion">exploded</a></b>, killing 47 sailors.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uesugi_Kenshin" title="Uesugi Kenshin">Uesugi Kenshin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1578); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Dilling" title="Elizabeth Dilling">Elizabeth Dilling</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1894); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O%27Brien" title="Denis O'Brien">Denis O'Brien</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1958)</p>
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