Throughout history, the date of April 19 has been more than a bit significant. Just take a look at a few of the events that occurred on this date in the past:

• 1529 - At the Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.
• 1692 - Bridget Bishop goes on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Lexington and Concord which began the American Revolutionary War.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
• 1892 - Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 1904 - Much of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is destroyed by fire.
• 1909 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
• 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States will be abandoning the gold standard.
• 1936 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
• 1938 - RCA–NBC begins regular television broadcasts.
• 1943 - World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1943 - Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
• 1951 - General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
• 1956 - Actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III of Monaco.
• 1960 - Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
• 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in failure.
• 1971 - Launch of Salyut 1, first human-made space station.
• 1976 - Executive Order 9066 is rescinded.
• 1987 - The Simpsons make their television debut in the short “Good Night” a segment for The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1989 - A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
• 1993 - The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
• 1995 - Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
• 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.

The holidays are worth a look as well.

• Patriot’s Day (Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin, USA).
• Landing of the 33 (Uruguay).
• Primrose Day (England) – primroses are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death (1881).
• The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends. (Roman Empire)
• Bicycle Day.
• Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992. In the Gregorian Calendar Easter Sunday falls on 19 April more often than on any other date.
• “Dia do Índio” in Brazil

419 also refers to the well-known e-mail scam, whose origin is The Spanish Prisoner.

According to Pythagoreans, the numbers 1, 4, and 9 are square because if considered as a number of dots, each can be arranged in a square pattern. And when thinking of numerology, it seems only natural to think of qabala:
419. The Daughter of Mizaheb because She hath nourishment from the two Countenances (Chokmah and Binah, which are within Kether); and shineth with two colours–namely from ChSD, Chesed, Mercy; and from DIN, Din, Judgment.

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