TV actor Tony Plana

Events in 1952 and 19-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Tony Plana

• George VI of England dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (Feb. 6).
• NATO conference approves European army (Feb.).
• King Farouk of Egypt is ousted by a military coup (July 23). General Mohammed Naguib assumes power.
• Britain announces its development of atomic weapons (Oct.). Background: nuclear weapons
• Greece and Turkey join NATO.

Birthday Tony Plana (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.