19th April
On April 19, 1890, Clément Ader filed a patent relating to "a winged device for aerial navigation called an aeroplane."
T. E. Lawrence attacks Tell Shahm using British armoured cars.
Lawrence and his Brough Superiors
LIFE magazine wrote of the Daytona Beach races "for four days last month the resort city of Daytona Beach could hardly have been noisier - or in more danger - if it had been under bombardment."