Thursday, 19th of April of 2018 is the 109th day of the year.
There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year.
63 days until summer begins...
201 days until mid-term elections Tuesday November 6, 2018
(6 months and 18 days from today)
929 days until presidential elections Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 6 months and 15 days from today)
The sun rises at 6:28 am
and sunset will be at 7:51 pm.
We will have 13 hours and 23 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:09 pm.
The first high tide was at 2:01 am
The first low tide will be at 8:36 am
and the next high tide at 3:49 pm.
and the final low tide at 8:32 pm.
First Quarter Moon in 3 days on Sunday the 22nd of April of 2018 at 2:46 pm
Full Moon in 10 days on a Sunday the 29th of April of 2018 at 5:58 pm
Last Quarter Moon in 18 days on a Monday the 7th of May of 2018 at 7:09 pm
New Moon in 25 days on a Tuesday the 15th of May of 2018 at 4:48 am
Today is…
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
It’s also…
First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti in Iceland
Beginning of the Independence Movement in Venezuela
Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States)
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland
King Mswati III's birthday in Swaziland
Landing of the 33 Patriots Day in Uruguay
For the town in Uruguay, see 19 de Abril.
For the Indian film, see April 19 (film).
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
626 – Eanflæd, English nun and saint (d. 685)
1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)
1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)
1934 – Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)
1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2016)
1946 – Tim Curry, English actor
1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist and conductor
1967 – Dar Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress and activist
1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
…and on this day in history…
AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians including 18 children under the age of 10 died in the fire.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
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.