April 20

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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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1653 - Oliver Cromwell disbands Parliament.
• 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: British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts
• 1792 - France declares war on Austria
• 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
• 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride (not fully purified to the isolated element). They thought they had isolated it.
• 1914 - Ludlow Massacre of striking Colorado coal miners.
• 1926 - Western Electric and Warner Bros announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film
• 1967 - A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus killing 126
• 1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa killing 122
• 1968 - The Liberal Party of Canada led by Pierre Trudeau wins the Canadian Federal Election
• 1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes controversial Rivers of Blood Speech
• 1968 - The rock group Deep Purple gives their first concert in Denmark
• 1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon
• 1991 - An all-star concert in memory of Queen 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 Bogota, Colombia killing 53
• 1999 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire in their high school leaving 15 dead and 23 wounded
• 2001 - The anti-globalization movement holds a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which are forcibly put down by police, against the FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec

• 571 - Muhammad (P.B.U.H) (Probably) (d. 634)
• 702 - Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)
• 1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
• 1818 - Heinrich Goebel, inventor (d. 1893)
• 1832 - Ernst von Leyden, physician (d. 1910)
• 1845 - Philippe Pinel, physician (d. 1826)
• 1871 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian 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)
• 1900 - Fred Raymond, composer (d. 1954)
• 1908 - Lionel Hampton, musician (d. 2002)
• 1915 - Joseph Wolpe, psychotherapist (d. 1997)
• 1916 - Karen Elisabeth Olsen Denchfield, wife & mother. Daughter of Denmark, b. in Jutland of Carl Christian Olsens (friends of King Christian X), who all emigrated to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1933 (d. April 18, 2002 in South Florida
• 1920 - John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1923 - Rita Frances Rizzo, in Canton, Ohio. She became Mother Angelica, Foundress of Eternal Word Television Network, a Global Catholic TV enterprise
• 1925 - Tito Puente, musician (d. 2000)
• 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 - Edie Sedgwick, actress (d. 1971)
• 1949 - Jessica Lange, actress
• 1951 - Luther Vandross, singer
• 1961 - Don Mattingly, baseball player
• 1964 - Crispin Glover, actor
• 1964 - Rosalynn Sumners, figure skater
• 1964 - Andy Serkis, actor
• 1972 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, radio and television personality (d. 2001)
• 1976 - Joey Lawrence, actor

• 1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
• 1769 - 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)
• 1992 - Benny Hill, comedian (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre. Also killed: Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Matthew Ketcher, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough, Dave Sanders (teacher), Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez

• In Canada and the United States, April 20th is a ceremonial day to "smoke out" (smoke marijuana). See: 420 (drug culture)
• 1992, 2003, 2014 - Easter

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