Learn the major events of April 19 in today’s India and world history

New Delhi: The major events of April 19 in India and world history are as follows-
1451 – Bahlol Khan Lodi captures Delhi.
1770 – Captain James Cook becomes the first Westerner to reach Australia.
1775 – Beginning of the American Revolution.
1852 – The California Historical Society was formed.
1882 – Death of famous zoologist Charles Darwin.
1910 – The comet Halley was first seen with the naked eye.
1919 – Leslie Irwin of America jumped for the first time with a parachute.
1933 – The then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the abandonment of the Gold Standard.
1936 – Anti-Jewish riots begin in Palestine.
1948 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes the President of China.
1972 – Bangladesh became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1975 – The first Indian satellite Aryabhata was launched with the help of the then Soviet Russia.
1989 – The African country Sierra Leone declared a republic.
2003 – China’s female weightlifter Bang Ming Chien made a world record.
2006 – The first astronaut Neil Armstrong was presented with the moon piece brought by him.
2007 – The Wizard of ID series cartoonist Brand Parker passed away.
2008 – Pakistan successfully tested Shaheen-2, a 2000 km range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
2011 – Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba, resigned after remaining in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba for 45 years.