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30 April 2019
- 00:00, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
![Aporometra wilsoni](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Aporometra_wilsoni_%28F_84857%29_02_%28square_crop%29.jpg/140px-Aporometra_wilsoni_%28F_84857%29_02_%28square_crop%29.jpg)
Aporometra wilsoni
29 April 2019
- 00:00, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
![Ānanda (left) and the Buddha](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Indian_Museum_Sculpture_-_Consolation_of_Ananda_at_Gijjhakuta%2C_Jamalgarhi_%289220852218%29.jpg/199px-Indian_Museum_Sculpture_-_Consolation_of_Ananda_at_Gijjhakuta%2C_Jamalgarhi_%289220852218%29.jpg)
Ānanda (left) and the Buddha
28 April 2019
- 00:00, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
![Villa by Andrea Palladio](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Villa_Badoer_Fratta_Polesine_facciata_by_Marcok_2009-08-16_n08.jpg/160px-Villa_Badoer_Fratta_Polesine_facciata_by_Marcok_2009-08-16_n08.jpg)
Villa by Andrea Palladio
27 April 2019
- 00:00, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
![Illustration from "The Fox's Frolic"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Harry_B._Neilson%2C_The_Fox%E2%80%99s_Frolic_%282%29_-_cropped.jpeg/160px-Harry_B._Neilson%2C_The_Fox%E2%80%99s_Frolic_%282%29_-_cropped.jpeg)
Illustration from The Fox's Frolic
26 April 2019
- 00:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
![SARS coronavirus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Coronaviruses_004_lores.jpg/169px-Coronaviruses_004_lores.jpg)
SARS coronavirus
25 April 2019
- 00:00, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
![Alai Darwaza](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Alai_Darwaza.JPG/160px-Alai_Darwaza.JPG)
Alai Darwaza
- ... that the 14th-century Alai Darwaza (pictured) was the first Indian monument built using Islamic methods of construction and ornamentation?
- ... that while a federal deputy, Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake?
- ... that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils?
- ... that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga?
- ... that Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics?
- ... that the yeast Candida blankii, first described from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
- ... that Jens Harzer, a German actor with Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring?
- ... that before St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in Hailsham, East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
24 April 2019
- 00:00, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
![Walter Stanley Haines](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Walter_Stanley_Haines.jpg/120px-Walter_Stanley_Haines.jpg)
Walter Stanley Haines
23 April 2019
- 00:00, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
![Fabiana Rosales](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Fabiana_Rosales_%28crop%29.jpg/120px-Fabiana_Rosales_%28crop%29.jpg)
Fabiana Rosales
22 April 2019
- 00:00, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
21 April 2019
- 00:00, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- ... that in the 1970s, spoon worms (example pictured) helped promote biodiversity around the effluent outlets from the Los Angeles sewage system?
- ... that despite being demoted three times, Nikolai Kulakov rose to the rank of vice admiral and became a Hero of the Soviet Union?
- ... that the motet Sicut cervus by Palestrina, suitable for Holy Saturday, has been described as the expression of "serene but fervent spiritual yearning"?
- ... that cinematographer Mike Gioulakis was inspired by the photography of Gregory Crewdson when shooting the 2014 horror film It Follows?
- ... that during Cardiff City F.C.'s 1921–22 season, trainer George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
- ... that Shah Faesal, the first Kashmiri to top the Indian civil services exam, has become a politician?
- ... that in 1941, the far-right French National-Collectivist Party proposed sending its women paramilitaries to fight for Vichy France in Syria?
- ... that Necdet Turhan, a visually impaired mountaineer and long-distance runner, ran five marathons and climbed five summits on five continents?
20 April 2019
- 00:00, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
![A variant of Shepard's elephant illusion](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Elephant_legs_illusion%2C_variant_of_Roger_Shepard%27s_L%27egsistential_paradox.png/160px-Elephant_legs_illusion%2C_variant_of_Roger_Shepard%27s_L%27egsistential_paradox.png)
A variant of Shepard's elephant illusion
19 April 2019
- 00:00, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
![Superbloom in Riverside County, California, March 2019](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Walker_Canyon_During_a_Poppy_Super_Bloom.jpg/173px-Walker_Canyon_During_a_Poppy_Super_Bloom.jpg)
Superbloom in California
18 April 2019
- 00:00, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
![Fritz Pollard](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Fritzpollard.jpg/120px-Fritzpollard.jpg)
Fritz Pollard
- ... that Fritz Pollard (pictured) became the NFL's first black quarterback in 1923, but it was not until 2017 that all 32 modern NFL teams had started at least one black quarterback?
- ... that All India Trinamool Congress MP Uma Saren was the first person to speak in the tribal Santali language at the Inter-Parliamentary Union?
- ... that the weevil species Sicoderus bautistai, described as resembling "black, shiny ants", is named after professional baseball player José Bautista?
- ... that Czech chemist Karel Wiesner, unable to study at university under the German occupation, set up a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house to teach himself polarography?
- ... that the Natal Border Guard, established in 1878, was expected to defend the Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields?
- ... that American artist Lydia Purdy Hess, best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H., sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon?
- ... that the Troy Museum, located close to the ancient city of Troy, is clad in rust-colored weathering steel to resemble an excavated artifact?
- ... that at the Queen Charlotte's Ball, debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake?
17 April 2019
- 00:00, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
![Chatham shag](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/20181001_ChathamsA9D3_444_DxO_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-20181001_ChathamsA9D3_444_DxO_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Chatham shag
- ... that the scientific name of the Chatham shag (pictured) commemorates a former Governor of New Zealand?
- ... that Satish Namdeo Ghormade has served as commanding officer of a guided missile frigate, a submarine rescue vessel, and a minesweeper?
- ... that at the 2019 Tour Championship snooker tournament the first-round match between Neil Robertson and Mark Selby, played over 17 frames, was decided by the final black?
- ... that, inspired at the age of five by her football-playing brother, Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the Turkey women's national team?
- ... that the tragic early life of the visual-novel character Kiritsugu Emiya was written by Gen Urobuchi as a prequel to Fate/stay night, which has a happy ending?
- ... that Heinz Hoppe performed as a lyric tenor at the Hamburg State Opera, including world premieres, but became popular for operetta recordings and television shows?
- ... that more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, the potter's field for New York City?
- ... that Ram Singh Malam designed and decorated the Palace of Mirrors and its pleasure hall?
16 April 2019
- 00:00, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
![Gloucester Court of Probate](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Gloucester_Court_of_Probate_2_April_2016.JPG/174px-Gloucester_Court_of_Probate_2_April_2016.JPG)
Gloucester Court of Probate
- ... that Thomas Fulljames designed the Gloucester Court of Probate (pictured) in a "picturesque Gothic" style?
- ... that the Spider-Man created for the 2018 video game by Insomniac Games has been used by Marvel Comics as an alternate version of Spider-Man?
- ... that volleyball player Chen Zhaodi, who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
- ... that the royal vole has larder chambers in its burrow but not latrines?
- ... that during World War II, the crew of the USS Argonaut donated their ship's bell to the Submarine Memorial Chapel before the submarine was lost in combat?
- ... that Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition?
- ... that three times a day, the clock tower across from Southampton's Watts Park tolls out Isaac Watts's hymn "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"?
- ... that when Hansgünther Heyme staged classic plays, Antigone was set in Calcutta, William Tell in Nazi Germany, and Hamlet ended with the prince on a metal trolley?
15 April 2019
- 00:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
![James Henry Marriott in his Odd Fellows costume](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/James_Henry_Marriott_a_founder_of_Oddfellows_Hall_Wellington.jpg/120px-James_Henry_Marriott_a_founder_of_Oddfellows_Hall_Wellington.jpg)
James Henry Marriott
14 April 2019
- 00:11, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
![Cover of Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Agatha_Christie_The_A.B.C._Murders_first_edition_cover_1936.jpg/120px-Agatha_Christie_The_A.B.C._Murders_first_edition_cover_1936.jpg)
Agatha Christie's The A.B.C. Murders
13 April 2019
- 00:11, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
![Leroy Daniels (left) with Fred Astaire](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/The_Band_Wagon_%281953%29_trailer_4_%28square_crop%29.jpg/150px-The_Band_Wagon_%281953%29_trailer_4_%28square_crop%29.jpg)
Leroy Daniels (left) with Fred Astaire
- ... that choreographer Alex Romero hired a shoeshiner, Leroy Daniels (pictured), to dance with Fred Astaire in the 1953 film The Band Wagon?
- ... that indigenous resistance by mainland Caribs and Island Caribs played a major role in the failure of Dutch, British, French, and Courlander attempts to colonise Tobago in the 17th century?
- ... that Patrick Lange, who conducted a Stephen Sondheim musical in a youth club production at age 16, became chief music director of the Wiesbaden State Opera at age 36?
- ... that the Holby City production team worked with Parkinson's UK to create a Parkinson's disease storyline for the character Alex Adams?
- ... that Indian social worker Sharda Mehta organised a protest against indentured servitude in 1917?
- ... that the former Marysville Cotton Mill now houses a data centre for departments and agencies of the Government of New Brunswick?
- ... that Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of Japanese women's ice hockey"?
- ... that the mottled piculet likes to drum on bamboo?
- ... that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
- ... that Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song "Me Too" from Vevo, due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video?
12 April 2019
- 00:15, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
![American Adolf Hitler propaganda stamp](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/OSS_Adolf_Hitler_propaganda_stamp.jpg/127px-OSS_Adolf_Hitler_propaganda_stamp.jpg)
American Adolf Hitler propaganda stamp
- ... that the German philatelic writer Wolfgang Baldus is a specialist in the forged and propaganda stamps of the Second World War, such as the American Adolf Hitler skull stamp (pictured)?
- ... that the Indian Creek mushroom can be distinguished from chanterelles by its staining dark purple when cut or bruised?
- ... that the Dutch-Belgian composer Oscar van Hemel created two operas, one of them about a prostitute?
- ... that Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns?
- ... that journalist Roman Sushchenko was named by the European Parliament as one of 30 Ukrainian citizens illegally detained or imprisoned in Russia?
- ... that the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act protected more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km2) of wilderness and created four U.S. national monuments?
- ... that Mr Justice Orr granted the wife of British spy George Blake a decree nisi for divorce on the grounds that a conviction for treason can amount to cruelty?
- ... that John Wozniak took less than an hour to write Marcy Playground's only hit, "Sex and Candy", in his bedroom at 4 a.m.?
11 April 2019
- 04:23, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
![Chinese alligator](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/ChineseAlligator.jpg/180px-ChineseAlligator.jpg)
Chinese alligator
10 April 2019
- 00:00, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
![Pearl Doles Bell in 1919](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Pearl_Doles_Bell_-_Dec_1919_EH.jpg/120px-Pearl_Doles_Bell_-_Dec_1919_EH.jpg)
Pearl Doles Bell
9 April 2019
- 00:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
![Pacu jawi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Spirit_of_Pacu_Jawi.jpg/160px-Spirit_of_Pacu_Jawi.jpg)
Pacu jawi
8 April 2019
- 00:00, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
![Ansel Adams](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Ansel_Adams_and_camera.jpg/120px-Ansel_Adams_and_camera.jpg)
Ansel Adams
- ... that Ansel Adams (pictured), known for his black-and-white landscape photographs, documented a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II?
- ... that the inner core may rotate slightly faster than the rest of the Earth due to torque caused by Earth's geodynamo and the solidification of the core?
- ... that fees and penalties charged as part of criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States may lead to the justice system becoming both a result and a cause of poverty?
- ... that in a telegram to Hitler, Hans Bredow, the former head of the Reich Broadcasting Corporation, requested to be treated like his colleagues who were interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp?
- ... that the polychaete worm Poecilochaetus serpens digs a burrow with its head and lines it with particles of clay or mud cemented with mucus?
- ... that medieval historian Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in Catalonia and Valencia co-existed due to religious segregation?
- ... that some newspapers reported as many as 3,000 deaths in Key West, Florida, during an October 1909 hurricane, but just two fatalities occurred in the city in actuality?
- ... that a British Guiana one-cent postage stamp that Neil Ross McKinnon bought from a schoolboy later sold for US$9.5 million?
7 April 2019
- 00:00, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
![Nazir Wani's wife (right) receives the Ashoka Chakra on his behalf from the President of India.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_giving_away_the_gallantry_award_Ashoka_Chakra_to_12974389N_Lance_Naik%2C_Nazir_Ahmad_Wani%2C_Bar_to_Sena_Medal%2C_the_J%26K_Light_Infantry%2C_34th_Battalion_the_Rashtriya_Rifles_%28Posthumously%29_-_wide_crop.jpg/192px-thumbnail.jpg)
Nazir Wani's wife (right) receives the Ashoka Chakra on his behalf from the President of India.
6 April 2019
- 00:00, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
![Judah Samet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/2019_State_of_the_Union_Guests_%2840029398563%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/115px-2019_State_of_the_Union_Guests_%2840029398563%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Judah Samet
5 April 2019
- 00:50, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
![Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Flint_July_2018_23_%28Charles_Stewart_Mott_Foundation_Building_-_Union_Industrial_Bank_Building%29.jpg/120px-Flint_July_2018_23_%28Charles_Stewart_Mott_Foundation_Building_-_Union_Industrial_Bank_Building%29.jpg)
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building
- ... that the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building (pictured) in Flint, Michigan, made its film debut in the 2008 sports comedy Semi-Pro?
- ... that zinc oxide nanoparticles, thought to be one of the most-produced nanomaterials, are commonly used in sunscreens?
- ... that Dutch pool player Alex Lely won the 1999 World Pool Masters Tournament and collected autographs from his opponents?
- ... that the means of raising the late 18th-century British Provisional Cavalry was likened to the medieval-era feudal system?
- ... that, at age 60, Carrie Langston Hughes made her Broadway debut as Sister Susie May Hunt in Hall Johnson's Run Little Chillun?
- ... that Coccothrinax jimenezii, a palm tree native to the island of Hispaniola, was listed as a critically endangered species within two years of its formal description?
- ... that Horst Laubenthal appeared in Mozart operas at the Glyndebourne Festival as Belmonte, in Paris as Tamino, and in Turin as Ottavio?
- ... that Moston Brook was one of the most polluted waterways in Greater Manchester but, following improvements, it is now a recreational resource for local residents?
4 April 2019
- 00:00, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
![Memorial to Dortan victims](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Monument_du_martyr_%C3%A0_Dortan.JPG/120px-Monument_du_martyr_%C3%A0_Dortan.JPG)
Memorial to Dortan victims
3 April 2019
- 00:00, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
![Queen Elizabeth 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/QE2-South_Queensferry.jpg/180px-QE2-South_Queensferry.jpg)
Queen Elizabeth 2
2 April 2019
- 00:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
![A squirrel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Squirrel_on_utility_line.jpg/160px-Squirrel_on_utility_line.jpg)
A squirrel
1 April 2019
- 12:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
![The pedestal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Thomas_Attwood_-_plinth_and_bronze_pages_%283626845224%29.jpg/133px-Thomas_Attwood_-_plinth_and_bronze_pages_%283626845224%29.jpg)
The pedestal
- 00:00, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
![Linda Sarsour](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Linda_Sarsour_on_19_May_2016.jpeg/116px-Linda_Sarsour_on_19_May_2016.jpeg)
Linda Sarsour