Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 19

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1775: The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.

1861: Southern sympathizers in Baltimore cut telegraph lines and bridges to Washington, D. C. While passing through the city, the 6th Massachusetts Regiment is attacked. They open fire on a crowd. When the dust settle, three soldiers and one civilian were dead, the first casualties of the War Between the States.

1861: Abraham Lincoln calls for a blockade of Southern ports.

1861: Virginia forces seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

1865: The body of Lincoln lies in state at Washington, D.C..

1898: The Spanish-American war begins.

1995: A truck bomb explodes outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 and injuring 500.