Timeline Monday 19 April 1943

Events on Monday 19 April 1943 3

• 1943 Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD The first deliberate LSD trip takes place on Bicycle Day Chemist Albert Hofmann at Sandoz in Basel absorbed a small amount of LSD by accident on 16 April and noticed unusual effects. On 19 April he deliberately took 250 micrograms and rode home by bicycle as the drug took hold. The date is now remembered as Bicycle Day.
• 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jews resist Nazi deportations Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against Nazi deportations on April 19, 1943. The uprising lasted nearly a month before being crushed. It was the largest Jewish armed resistance of the Holocaust.
• 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jewish fighters resist the deportation of the ghetto Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto took up arms against German forces that had come to deport the remaining inhabitants. The poorly armed fighters held out for nearly a month. The Germans burned the ghetto block by block, and the uprising ended when the Great Synagogue was blown up on 16 May.