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Monday, April 19, 2027

Patriots Day

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Concord Hymn”

Patriots Day commemorates the events of April 19, 1775, that marked the start of the American Revolutionary War, especially the midnight rides of Paul Revere and others to warn of the approach of British troops, and the battles of Lexington and Concord. Today, Massachusetts and Maine celebrate Patriots Day as a legal holiday on the third Monday in April, with reenactments and other events.

Learn more about the first shots fired on Lexington Green to “the shot heard round the world” at Concord’s North Bridge by visiting the Minute Man National Park in Concord. The annual running of the Boston Marathon also takes place on this day. You may want to do your patriotic duty and check out the official Web site of the Boston Marathon, sponsored by the Boston Athletic Association.”

Born

  • Roger Sherman (American statesman) –
  • Dick Sargent (actor) –
  • Jayne Mansfield (actress) –
  • Tim Curry (actor) –
  • Tony Plana (actor) –
  • Ashley Judd (actress) –
  • James Franco (actor) –
  • Kate Hudson (actress) –
  • Hayden Christensen (actor) –
  • Maria Sharapova (tennis player) –
  • Simu Liu (actor) –
  • Chase Winovich (football player, born in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania) –

Died

  • Charles Darwin (naturalist) –
  • Daphne du Maurier (author) –
  • Norris McWhirter (co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, final arbiter on everything from the fastest climb of Mount Everest to the world’s longest hot dog) –

Events

  • The American Revolution began with the first shot fired at Lexington (no one knows from which side). The shot heard round the world” (a reference from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “The Concord Hymn”) occurred at the North Bridge in Concord later that same day. It was the first exchange where colonial militiamen were ordered to fire upon British soldiers.” –
  • The Boston Marathon was held for the first time –
  • Great fire in Toronto started –
  • Canadian runner Tom Longboat won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 24 seconds –
  • Women granted the right to vote in Alberta, Canada –
  • Leslie Irvin made the first free-fall parachute jump, Dayton, Ohio –
  • John C. Miles won Boston Marathon –
  • Oxford English Dictionary completed –
  • Movie Stand Up and Cheer released in U.S., first to seriously launch Shirley Temple’s film career –
  • Surgeon’s Loch Ness monster hoax photo taken –
  • Spring peepers heard in Dublin, NH –
  • WIYY DJ Bob Rivers began an on-air vigil until baseball’s Baltimore Orioles won (which was in 258 hours) –
  • Oklahoma City bombing –
  • Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected pope. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. He was the oldest pope elected since 1730 –
  • The death of the oldest known spider (43-year-old trapdoor species) was announced –
  • NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet (Mars). –

Weather

  • Last snow of a late winter raised snow cover to 3 feet in southern New Hampshire –
  • In the second day of an early-season heat wave in the Northeast, Providence, Rhode Island, reached 98 degrees F –
  • The Boston Marathon was run in 90-degree heat –
  • The temperature reached 88 degrees F in Portsmouth, New Hampshire –
  • Lead, South Dakota, received 59 inches of snow –