April 19, 1587 – Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor. 1770 – Captain James Cook sighted Australia. 1775 – The American Revolutionary war began with the battles of Lexington and Concord. 1782 – John Adams secured the Dutch Republics recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy. 1892 – Charles Duryea claimed to have driven the 1st automobile in the USA in Springfield, MA. 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the USA made the first successful voluntary parachute jump. 1961 – The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ended in success for the defenders. 1971 – Vietnam Veterans Against the War began a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.. 1985 – FBI laid siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas. 1989 – A gun turret exploded on the USS Iowa, killing 47. 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, TX, ended when a fire killed 81. 1995 – The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, was bombed, killing 168.
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