Historical Events on April 19.

1.  1451, 19th April: Bahlol Khan Lodi captured Delhi.

2.  1526, 19th April: Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.

3.  1770, 19th April: Captain James Cook became the first Western man to reach Australia.

4.  1775, 19th April: Beginning of the American Revolutionary war.

5.  1910, 19th April: Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve, and Vinayak Deshpande were executed.

6.  1948, 19th April: Burma joined the United Nations.

7.  1971, 19th April: Sierra Leone became a republic.

8.  1975, 19th April: Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, launched from the Russian space station.

9.  2011, 19th April: Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on April 19.

1.  1868: Paul Harris, founder of the Rotary Club.

2.  1933: Dickie Bird, an English retired international cricket umpire.

3.  1956: Mukesh Rishi, an Indian actor.

4.  1957: Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.

5.  1968: Arshad Warsi, an Indian film actor.

6.  1977: Anju Bobby George, a retired Indian athlete. 

7.  1987: Maria Sharapova, a Russian retired professional tennis player. 

Death Anniversaries of famous people on April 19.

1.  1882: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist.

2.  1906: Pierre Curie, a French physicist.

3.  1910: Anant Laxman Kanhere, an Indian independence fighter.

4.  1955: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.

5.  1974: Muhammad Ayub Khan, the second President of Pakistan.

6.  2003: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 

7.  2004: Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records.

8.  2008: Sarojini Babar, an Indian-Marathi writer, and politician.