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Wikipedia Current Events
April 19
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict
- 2024 Israeli strikes in Iran
- Missiles believed to be from the Israel Defense Forces allegedly hit a site near the Iranian city of Isfahan. (Al Jazeera)(Times of Israel)
- 2024 Israeli strikes in Iran
Politics and elections
April 18
Armed conflicts and attacks
International relations
- Palestine and the United Nations
- The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution supporting the State of Palestine joining the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. France, Japan and South Korea supported the resolution. (AP)
Sports
- In ice hockey, the National Hockey League board approves the relocation of the hockey assets of the Arizona Coyotes to Salt Lake City, Utah. The currently unnamed expansion team will play their home games at the Delta Center, while the Coyotes franchise will be deactivated pending the construction of a new arena in the Phoenix metropolitan area. (Sportsnet) (AP)
On This Day
April 19: Feast day of Saint Alphege of Canterbury (Catholicism, Anglicanism), Education and Sharing Day in the United States (2024), Primrose Day in London
- 1773 – The Polish Partition Sejm met to discuss the First Partition of Poland, carried out the previous year by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
- 1809 – War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
- 1927 – American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her play Sex.
- 1989 – A gun turret exploded on board the United States Navy battleship , killing 47 sailors.