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19 April 2021 - On this day in Irish, world and technological history
1939 - De Valera announces that all references to Great Britain and the King will be removed from new passports.
1965 - Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore first describes 'Moores Law' which states that due to improvements in technology computers will double in power every 18 months but still cost the same.
1980 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "What's Another Year".
1987 - The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1993 - Around 77 people are feared to have died in a fire at the besieged headquarters of the Branch Davidian sect near Waco, Texas.
1995 - A huge car bomb exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people. Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the attack and sentenced to death by lethal injection
2002 - Ireland's first cash-free petrol station, Carrigdhoun Service Station, near Ballygarvan, Co Cork, opens with all business being transacted by credit card or petrol card.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as Pope Benedict XVI , the eighth German pontiff
2011 - Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
2012 - Dylan Moran became the first professional English-speaking comedian to perform in Russia, with his routine mentioning Russia's new law banning "homosexual propaganda" and jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
2013 - Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
2018 - Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro.
Number one in the Irish singles charts on this day
1963 - "From a Jack to a King" by Ned Miller1965 - "Walking the Streets in the Rain" by Butch Moore
1969 - "Boom Bang-a-Bang" by Lulu
1973 - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
1986 - "Living Doll" by Cliff Richard and The Young Ones
1990 - "The By-road to Glenroe" by Mick Lally
1997 - "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly
2003 - "A Better Plan" by Simon Casey
2007 - "Beautiful Liar" by Beyoncé and Shakira
2012 - "We Are Young" by Fun feat. Janelle Monae
2019 - "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X
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