Reality star Jesse James

Events in 1969 and 19-4

Events in US in the birth year of Jesse James

• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).
• Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement (June 28).
• Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18) in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25). Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies
• Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —take first walk on the Moon (July 20).

Birthday Jesse James (19-4) in history

• Day 19-4 year 1775: They were the beginning of the American Revolution. "The shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minutemen joined the regular forces of the British Army at Lexington and Concord, Mass.
• Day 19-4 year 1824: Lord Byron passed away of a fever while helping the Greeks fight the Turks.
• Day 19-4 year 1882: Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died.
• Day 19-4 year 1897: The first Boston Marathon was run.
• Day 19-4 year 1933: The United States went off the gold standard.
• Day 19-4 year 1943: The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.
• Day 19-4 year 1993: The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.
• Day 19-4 year 1995: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.
• Day 19-4 year 2005: Germany's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI.