
April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). There are 255 days remaining. ==Events== *1653 - Oliver Cromwell Grows sick with a broken pelvis. *1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion. *1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. *1775 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts *1792 - France declares war on Austria. *1836 - Congress of the United States 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. *1884 - Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical, ''Humanum Genus''. *1902 - Pierre Curie and Maria Sklodowska-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, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. *1914 - Twenty thousand 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. *1945 - US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. *1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Candada, killing 126,000 *1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122. *1968 - Pierre Trudeau succeeds Lester Bowles Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada of Canada. *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 Soviet Union. *1979 - President of the United States Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Swamp Rabbit while on vacation in Plains, Georgia. *1992 - An all-star concert in memory of Queen (band) frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London. *1997 - The San Diego Padres face the St. Louis Cardinals in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Hawaii. *1998 - An Air France Boeing 727-200 crashes into mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53. *1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the Columbine High School massacre (both children reported to have down-syndrome). *2001 - Anti-globalization marches and a "People's Summit" are held to protest the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, a Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Quebec City, Quebec. *2004 - Severe thunderstorms strike Chicagoland, USA. An F3 tornado touches down in Utica, Illinois, claiming eight lives. ==Births== *571 - Muhammad (Likely) (d. 634) *702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) *1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, the first saint in the Americas (d. 1617) *1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) *1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician (d. 1826) *1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873) *1818 - Heinrich Göbel, inventor (d. 1893) *1832 - Ernst von Leyden, physician (d. 1910) *1871 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croat inventor, (d. 1922) *1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944) *1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, businessman and social activist (d. 1996) *1889 - Adolf Hitler, German (Austrian-born) dictator, ''"Führer"'' and ''Reichskanzler'' (d. 1945) *1893 - Joan Miró, painter (d. 1983) *1893 - Harold Lloyd, actor (d. 1971) *1895 - Emile Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973) *1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952) *1900 - Fred Raymond, composer (d. 1954) *1904 - Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972) *1905 - Stanley Marcus, American department store owner (Neiman-Marcus) (d. 2002) *1908 - Lionel Hampton, musician (d. 2002) *1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999) *1915 - Joseph Wolpe, psychotherapist (d. 1997) *1918 - Edward L. Beach, American naval officer, author (d. 2002) *1920 - John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States *1923 - Mother Angelica, Foundress of Eternal Word Television Network *1924 - Nina Foch, Dutch actress *1925 - Tito Puente, musician (d. 2000) *1926 - Elena Verdugo, American actress *1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, astronomer (d. 2003) *1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway *1939 - Peter S. Beagle, author *1940 - George Takei, actor, ''Star Trek'' *1941 - Ryan O'Neal, actor *1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor *1943 - Edie Sedgwick, actress (d. 1971) *1945 - Steve Spurrier, American football player, coach *1949 - Massimo D'Alema, politician, former italian Prime Minister *1949 - Jessica Lange, actress *1950 - Veronica Cartwright, American actress *1950 - Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general, politician (d. 2002) *1951 - Luther Vandross, singer *1961 - Don Mattingly, baseball player *1962 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio and television personality (d. 2001) *1964 - Crispin Glover, actor *1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, figure skating *1964 - Andy Serkis, actor *1967 - Mike Portnoy, musician *1972 - Carmen Electra, actress *1976 - Joey Lawrence, actor ==Deaths== * 1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264) * 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, Christian prophet, executed (b. ~ 1506) * 1769 - Chief Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa tribe (b. ~ 1720) * 1912 - Bram Stoker, author (b. 1847) * 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician (b. 1858) * 1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870) * 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873) * 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, poet and writer (b. 1892) * 1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer *1991 - Steve Marriott, British musician, actor *1991 - Don Siegel, American film director * 1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (b. 1924) *1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian, actor * 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin *1999 - Cassie Bernall * 1999 - Rachel Scott * 1999 - Lauren Townsend *1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist, comedian *1999 - Richard Rood, American professional wrestler * 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (b. 1946) * 2002 - Alan Dale (singer), singer (b. 1925) * 2003 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1911) * 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist ==Holidays and observances== *2003, 2014 - Easter Sunday *April 20 (4/20) is associated with 420 (drug culture) *Astrology: First day of sun sign Taurus (constellation) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/4/20 Today in History: April 20] ---- April 19 - April 21 - March 20 - May 20 – historical anniversaries fa:?? ?????#.D9.BE.DB.8C.D9.88.D9.86.D8.AF .D8.A8.D9.87 .D8.A8.DB.8C.D8.B1.D9.88.D9.86 simple:April 20 th:20 เมษายน vi:20 tháng 4
--User:Maveric149 23:30, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:April 20 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:April 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:April_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved birth from article: *1981 - Diana Alkire, model and computer scientist No verification found. User:Lupo 10:10, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) Removed a non-notable birth (Karen Elisabeth Olsen Denchfield). If there is a reason why this person should be here, please tell us here. User:DJ Clayworth 15:35, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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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. ==Events== *1653 - Oliver Cromwell Grows sick with a broken pelvis. *1657 - Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion. *1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. *1775 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts *1792 - France declares war on Austria. *1836 - Congress of the United States 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. *1884 - Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical, ''Humanum Genus''. *1902 - Pierre Curie and Maria Sklodowska-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, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. *1914 - Twenty thousand 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. *1945 - US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. *1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Candada, killing 126,000 *1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa, killing 122. *1968 - Pierre Trudeau succeeds Lester Bowles Pearson as Prime Minister of Canada of Canada. *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 Soviet Union. *1979 - President of the United States Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Swamp Rabbit while on vacation in Plains, Georgia. *1992 - An all-star concert in memory of Queen (band) frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London. *1997 - The San Diego Padres face the St. Louis Cardinals in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Hawaii. *1998 - An Air France Boeing 727-200 crashes into mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53. *1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the Columbine High School massacre (both children reported to have down-syndrome). *2001 - Anti-globalization marches and a "People's Summit" are held to protest the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, a Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Quebec City, Quebec. *2004 - Severe thunderstorms strike Chicagoland, USA. An F3 tornado touches down in Utica, Illinois, claiming eight lives. ==Births== *571 - Muhammad (Likely) (d. 634) *702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) *1586 - Saint Rose of Lima, the first saint in the Americas (d. 1617) *1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) *1745 - Philippe Pinel, physician (d. 1826) *1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873) *1818 - Heinrich Göbel, inventor (d. 1893) *1832 - Ernst von Leyden, physician (d. 1910) *1871 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croat inventor, (d. 1922) *1879 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944) *1889 - Albert Jean Amateau, businessman and social activist (d. 1996) *1889 - Adolf Hitler, German (Austrian-born) dictator, ''"Führer"'' and ''Reichskanzler'' (d. 1945) *1893 - Joan Miró, painter (d. 1983) *1893 - Harold Lloyd, actor (d. 1971) *1895 - Emile Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973) *1896 - Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952) *1900 - Fred Raymond, composer (d. 1954) *1904 - Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972) *1905 - Stanley Marcus, American department store owner (Neiman-Marcus) (d. 2002) *1908 - Lionel Hampton, musician (d. 2002) *1914 - Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999) *1915 - Joseph Wolpe, psychotherapist (d. 1997) *1918 - Edward L. Beach, American naval officer, author (d. 2002) *1920 - John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States *1923 - Mother Angelica, Foundress of Eternal Word Television Network *1924 - Nina Foch, Dutch actress *1925 - Tito Puente, musician (d. 2000) *1926 - Elena Verdugo, American actress *1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins, astronomer (d. 2003) *1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway *1939 - Peter S. Beagle, author *1940 - George Takei, actor, ''Star Trek'' *1941 - Ryan O'Neal, actor *1943 - John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor *1943 - Edie Sedgwick, actress (d. 1971) *1945 - Steve Spurrier, American football player, coach *1949 - Massimo D'Alema, politician, former italian Prime Minister *1949 - Jessica Lange, actress *1950 - Veronica Cartwright, American actress *1950 - Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general, politician (d. 2002) *1951 - Luther Vandross, singer *1961 - Don Mattingly, baseball player *1962 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio and television personality (d. 2001) *1964 - Crispin Glover, actor *1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, figure skating *1964 - Andy Serkis, actor *1967 - Mike Portnoy, musician *1972 - Carmen Electra, actress *1976 - Joey Lawrence, actor ==Deaths== * 1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264) * 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, Christian prophet, executed (b. ~ 1506) * 1769 - Chief Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa tribe (b. ~ 1720) * 1912 - Bram Stoker, author (b. 1847) * 1932 - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician (b. 1858) * 1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870) * 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873) * 1982 - Archibald MacLeish, poet and writer (b. 1892) * 1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer *1991 - Steve Marriott, British musician, actor *1991 - Don Siegel, American film director * 1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (b. 1924) *1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian, actor * 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin *1999 - Cassie Bernall * 1999 - Rachel Scott * 1999 - Lauren Townsend *1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist, comedian *1999 - Richard Rood, American professional wrestler * 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (b. 1946) * 2002 - Alan Dale (singer), singer (b. 1925) * 2003 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner (b. 1911) * 2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist ==Holidays and observances== *2003, 2014 - Easter Sunday *April 20 (4/20) is associated with 420 (drug culture) *Astrology: First day of sun sign Taurus (constellation) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/4/20 Today in History: April 20] ---- April 19 - April 21 - March 20 - May 20 – historical anniversaries fa:?? ?????#.D9.BE.DB.8C.D9.88.D9.86.D8.AF .D8.A8.D9.87 .D8.A8.DB.8C.D8.B1.D9.88.D9.86 simple:April 20 th:20 เมษายน vi:20 tháng 4
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--User:Maveric149 23:30, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) MediaWiki:April 20 selected anniversaries - MediaWiki talk:April 20 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=MediaWiki:April_20_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Moved birth from article: *1981 - Diana Alkire, model and computer scientist No verification found. User:Lupo 10:10, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC) Removed a non-notable birth (Karen Elisabeth Olsen Denchfield). If there is a reason why this person should be here, please tell us here. User:DJ Clayworth 15:35, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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