On April 19, 2019, a significant event took place in Ukraine: a debate was held at the Olimpiyskiy stadium between candidates for the post of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
Let’s recall the questions that Zelensky put to Poroshenko:
Why is no one sitting for Ilovaisk and Debaltseve?
Why after 6 years we still do not know the killers on the Maidan?
How much money should be stolen from the budget in order to “get enough”?
Why was Yanukovych’s entourage not punished?
Why do all your people have two hands?
Why did volunteers and patriots end up in prisons? Are they a danger?
Do you remember the word lustration?
What is your share of illegal amber mining?
If you have to stand before the court, will you talk about political position or about political persecution?
Zelensky also offered Poroshenko to live on UAH 1,500 for at least a month
“I am not your opponent, I am your verdict!” Zelensky said to Poroshenko at the end of the debate.
On April 19, the world celebrates funny holidays: Traveling Smile Day, Label Reading Day, and Funny Day.
Memorable historical events on April 19:
- 1839 – The Treaty of London recognized the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands.
- 1850 – England and the USA signed an agreement on the joint construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1919 – Leslie Leroy Irwin performed the first recorded jump – a free fall from an airplane followed by the opening of a parachute.
- 1928 – the publication of the first Oxford English Dictionary was completed.
- 1933 – abolition of the gold standard in the USA.
- 1943 – the beginning of the anti-Nazi uprising of the prisoners of the Warsaw ghetto. It lasted for almost a month, but was finally suppressed.
- 1977 – An-24 crash in Moe, as a result of which 21 people died. It was the biggest plane crash in Estonia.
- 1987 – The Simpsons first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show with the first short series called Good night.
- 2011 – 84-year-old Fidel Castro left the post of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, which he had held since 1961.
