On this day in history - Today, April, 19

Today in History

• 1775 The American Revolutionary War begins

  The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kingdom

• 1919 Leslie Irvin makes the world's first free-fall parachute jump

  The jump was executed to test a new kind of parachute, which was also the first featuring a ripcord.

• 1971 The Soviet Union launches the world's first manned space station

  Salyut 1 was 23 meters long and offered 100 cubic meters of pressurized space.

• 1987 The first installment of The Simpsons is aired

  The hugely popular animated sitcom debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in the form of one-minute short

• 1995 168 die in the Oklahoma City bombing

  Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind behind the attack, was executed on June 11, 2001. The motives for th