Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 19
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- 1160 - Minamoto Yoritomo is banished to Izu. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Third Month, 1160)
- 1951 - Tanaka Shigeki becomes the first Japanese to run and win the Boston Marathon.
- 1961 - Edwin O. Reischauer is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to Japan.
- 1988 - NTT's ISDN service is initiated, linking Tokyo and Nagoya.
