WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. APRIL
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Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex. (19. April 1927)

The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. (19. April 1928)

World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp. (19. April 1942)

World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. (19. April 1943)

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established. (19. April 1945)

Burma joins the United Nations. (19. April 1948)

Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (19. April 1950)

General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military. (19. April 1951)

The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan. (19. April 1954)

Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. (19. April 1956)

Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign. (19. April 1960)

Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president. (19. April 1971)

Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. (19. April 1971)

Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station. (19. April 1971)

Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders. (19. April 1971)

The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel. (19. April 1973)

India's first satellite, Aryabhata, is launched. (19. April 1975)

Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. (19. April 1984)

FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas. (19. April 1985)

U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk. (19. April 1985)