1st » The Bauhaus or Staatliches Bauhaus school is founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
6th » Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
10th » Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
11th » The International Labour Organization is founded.
13th » The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
13th » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops gun down at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India; at least 1200 are wounded.
13th » Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against Conscription in the United States named the draft during World War I.
16th » Mahatma Gandhi or Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the United Kingdom called British colonial troops three days earlier.
16th » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish Land Forces e.g Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
19th » Leslie Irvin (parachutist) known as Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1919
1st » Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
3rd » Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (d. 2008)
6th » Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998)
7th » Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1992)
7th » Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (d. 2012)
8th » Ian Smith, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
9th » J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (d. 1995)
10th » John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
11th » Raymond Carr, English historian and academic
12th » István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer (d. 2012)
12th » Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (d. 1991)
13th » Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
13th » Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
13th » Phil Tonken, American voice actor (d. 2000)