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April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years ). There are 255 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII .
1534 - Jacques Cartier begins his voyage, in which he will discover Canada and Labrador .
1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament .
1657 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife .
1657 - Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City ).
1689 - The former King James II of England , now deposed, lays siege to Derry .
1775 - American Revolutionary War : the siege of Boston begins, which followed the first battles at Lexington and Concord .
1792 - France declares war on Austria , the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars .
1810 - The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain .
1836 - U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory .
1861 - American Civil War : Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia .
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard .
1871 - Civil Rights Act of 1871
1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria .
1884 - Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical , Humanum Genus 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride .
1908 - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League .
1912 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit , Michigan , and Fenway Park in Boston , Massachusetts .
1914 - Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen , aka The Red Baron , shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone , a process to add sound to film.
1928 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter in Timbouctou .
1945 - World War II : US troops capture Leipzig , Germany , only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union .
1945 - World War II : U.S. B-29 bombers destroy the Musashi Aircraft plants. Halting production of the Nakajima Ki-84 fighter planes.
1960 - Inauguration of Brasilia .
1961 - Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba .
1964 - BBC Two launches with the power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station .
1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto , Canada , killing 126.
1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek , South-West Africa , killing 122.
1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech .
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon .
1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets .
1985 - ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas .
1986 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years. The concert was viewed by millions on television.
1986 - Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in a NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
1998 - TAME Boeing 727 -200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá , Colombia , killing 53.
1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in the Columbine High School massacre .
1999 - Largest bombing of Kosovo by the United States in the Kosovo War .
2004 - In Iraq , 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
Births 570 - Muhammed , founder of Islam (d. 632 ) (date disputed)
702 - Jafar Sadiq , Muslim scholar (d. 765 )
1494 - Johannes Agricola , German Protestant reformer (d. 1566 )
1586 - Saint Rose of Lima , Peruvian saint (d. 1617 )
1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654 )
1650 - William Bedloe , English informer (d. 1680 )
1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy , Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739 )
1718 - David Brainerd , American missionary (d. 1747 )
1723 - Cornelius Harnett , American delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1781 )
1745 - Philippe Pinel , French physician (d. 1826 )
1808 - Napoleon III , Emperor of the French (d. 1873 )
1818 - Heinrich Göbel , German-born inventor (d. 1893 )
1850 - Daniel Chester French , American sculptor (d. 1931 )
1851 - Young Tom Morris , Scottish golfer (d. 1875 )
1870 - Maulvi Abdul Haq , Father of Urdu Pakistani scholar (d.1961 )
1879 - Paul Poiret , French couturier (d. 1944 )
1882 - Holland Smith , U.S. General (d. 1967 )
1889 - Albert Jean Amateau , Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996 )
1889 - Adolf Hitler , Austrian-born dictator who ruled Nazi Germany during the Second World War (d. 1945 )
1890 - Maurice Duplessis , premier of Québec , known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959 )
1891 - Caresse Crosby , American poet (d. 1970 )
1893 - Harold Lloyd , American actor (d. 1971 )
1893 - Joan Miró , Catalan painter (d. 1983 )
1895 - Emile Christian , American musician (d. 1973 )
1896 - Wop May , Canadian aviator (d. 1952 )
1904 - Bruce Cabot , American actor (d. 1972 )
1904 - George Stibitz , American scientist (d. 1995 )
1908 - Lionel Hampton , American musician (d. 2002 )
1914 - Betty Lou Gerson , American actress (d. 1999 )
1915 - Joseph Wolpe , South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997 )
1918 - Edward L. Beach, Jr. , American naval officer, author (d. 2002 )
1918 - Kai Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 - John Paul Stevens , U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1920 - Ronald Speirs , WWII Veteran
1923 - Mother Angelica , American nun and broadcaster
1923 - Tito Puente , American musician (d. 2000 )
1924 - Leslie Phillips , English actor
1925 - Ernie Stautner , German-born American football player (d. 2006 )
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller , Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins , English astronomer (d. 2003 )
1939 - Peter S. Beagle , American author
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland , Prime Minister of Norway
1940 - George Takei , American actor
1941 - Ryan O'Neal , American actor
1943 - John Eliot Gardiner , English conductor
1943 - Edie Sedgwick , American actress (d. 1971 )
1945 - Michael Brandon , American actor
1945 - Steve Spurrier , American football player and coach
1947 - Björn Skifs , Swedish singer (Blue Swede )
1947 - Andrew Tobias , American journalist and author
1948 - Craig Frost , American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger )
1948 - Adolf Lu Hitler Marak , Indian politician
1948 - Gregory Itzin , American actor
1949 - Massimo D'Alema , Prime Minister of Italy
1949 - Toller Cranston , Canadian figure skater and artist
1949 - Jessica Lange , American actress
1950 - Veronica Cartwright , American actress
1950 - Steve Erickson , American novelist
1950 - Aleksandr Lebed , Russian general, politician (d. 2002 )
1951 - Luther Vandross , American singer (d. 2005 )
1957 - Geraint Wyn Davies , American actor
1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov , Russian ice hockey player
1961 - Don Mattingly , American baseball player
1961 - Konstantin Lavronenko , Russian actor
1963 - Mauricio Gugelmin , Brazilian racing driver
1964 - Crispin Glover , American actor
1964 - Andy Serkis , English actor
1964 - Rosalynn Sumners , American figure skater
1965 - Ralph Cirella , stylist and friend of Howard Stern
1965 - Adrian Fernández , Mexican racing driver
1967 - Raymond van Barneveld , Dutch darts player
1967 - Mike Portnoy , American drummer (Dream Theater )
1967 - Lara Jill Miller , American actress
1970 - Adriano Moraes , Brazilian rodeo performer
1971 - Carla Geurts , Dutch swimmer
1971 - Allan Houston , basketball player
1972 - Carmen Electra , American actress
1972 - Le Huynh Đuc , Vietnamese footballer
1972 - Stephen Marley , Jamaican musician
1976 - Joey Lawrence , American actor
1976 - Shay Given , Irish footballer
1977 - Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli , Professional wrestler
1978 - Mirei Kuroda , Japanese gravure idol
1980 - Jasmin Wagner , German singer
1981 - Veronica Cerda , actress
1981 - Matus Valent , male fitness model
1985 - Tony Craig , English footballer
Deaths 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , English soldier (b. 1130 )
1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264 )
1521 - Zhengde , Emperor of China (b. 1491 )
1534 - Elizabeth Barton , English nun (executed)
1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen , German reformer (b. 1485 )
1643 - Christoph Demantius , German composer (b. 1567 )
1703 - Lancelot Addison , English royal chaplain (b. 1632 )
1765 - Abigail Williams , American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674 )
1769 - Pontiac , Chief of the Ottawa
1831 - John Abernethy , English surgeon (b. 1764 )
1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha , Egyptian statesman (b. 1826 )
1873 - William Tite , English architect (b. 1798 )
1899 - Joseph Wolf , German artist (b. 1820 )
1912 - Bram Stoker , Irish author (b. 1847 )
1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850 )
1932 - Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician (b. 1858 )
1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870 )
1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi , Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873 )
1964 - Eddie Dyer , baseball player (b. 1899 )
1977 - Sepp Herberger , German football coach (b. 1897 )
1982 - Archibald MacLeish , American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892 )
1984 - Hristo Prodanov , Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943 )
1986 - Sibte Hassan , Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916 )
1989 - Doru Davidovici , Romanian writer and Fighter Pilot (b. 1945 )
1991 - Steve Marriott , British musician and actor (b. 1945 )
1991 - Don Siegel , American film director (b. 1912 )
1992 - Benny Hill , British comedian (b. 1924 )
1993 - Cantinflas , Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911 )
1994 - Jean Carmet , French actor (b. 1920 )
1996 - Christopher Robin Milne , son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920 )
1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre
1999 - Rick Rude , American professional wrestler (b. 1958 )
1999 - Señor Wences , Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896 )
2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli , Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946 )
2002 - Alan Dale , American singer (b. 1925 )
2003 - Ruth Hale , American playwright and actress (b. 1908 )
2003 - Bernard Katz , German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911 )
2005 - Fumio Niwa , Japanese novelist (b. 1904 )
2005 - Zygfryd Blaut , Polish football player (b. 1943 )
2006 - Anna Svidersky , American murder victim
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