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| ==Births== | |||
| * ] – ], (traditional date) Prophet and founder of Islam (d. 632) | |||
| * ] – ], ] and Muslim scholar (d. 765) | |||
| *] – ], German Protestant reformer (d. 1566) | |||
| *] – ], Peruvian saint (d. 1617) | |||
| *] – ] (d. 1654) | |||
| *] – ], French botanist (d. 1704) | |||
| *] – ], English informer (d. 1680) | |||
| *] – ], Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739) | |||
| *] – ], American missionary (d. 1747) | |||
| *] – ], American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781) | |||
| *] – ], Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794) | |||
| *] – ], French physician (d. 1826) | |||
| *] – ], Emperor of the French (d. 1873) | |||
| *] – ], German-born inventor (d. 1893) | |||
| *] – ], English author (d. 1887) | |||
| *] – ], American sculptor (d. 1931) | |||
| *] – ], Scottish golfer (d. 1875) | |||
| *] – ], ]i scholar (d. 1961) | |||
| *] – ], British economist and civil servant (d. 1951) | |||
| *] – ], French couturier (d. 1944) | |||
| *] – ], U.S. General (d. 1967) | |||
| *] – ] (d. 1966) | |||
| * 1889 – ], Turkish-born businessman and activist (d. 1996) | |||
| * 1889 – ], German ] dictator (d. 1945) | |||
| *] – ], ] of ] (d. 1959) | |||
| *] – ], American actor (d. 1971) | |||
| * 1893 – ], American ] (d. 2008) | |||
| * 1893 – ], Spanish painter (d. 1983) | |||
| *] – ], American musician (d. 1973) | |||
| *] – ], Canadian aviator (d. 1952) | |||
| * 1896 – ], French writer (d. 1972) | |||
| *] – ], American actor (d. 1972) | |||
| * 1904 – ], American scientist (d. 1995) | |||
| *] – ], Haitian president (d. 1971) | |||
| *] – ], American musician (d. 2002) | |||
| *] – ], American actress (d. 1999) | |||
| *] – ], South African–born psychotherapist (d. 1997) | |||
| *] – ], American naval officer, author (d. 2002) | |||
| * 1918 – ], Swedish physicist, ] laureate (d. 2007) | |||
| *] – ], Australian pilot and author (d. 1943) | |||
| *] – ], American jurist | |||
| * 1920 – ], WWII Veteran (d. 2007) | |||
| *] – ], French-Canadian actress | |||
| *] – ], American nun and broadcaster | |||
| * 1923 – ], American musician (d. 2000) | |||
| *] – ], English actor | |||
| * 1924 – ], Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008) | |||
| *] – ], German-born American football player (d. 2006) | |||
| *] – ], American race car driver (d. 2008) | |||
| * 1927 – ], Swiss physicist, ] laureate | |||
| *] – ], Irish footballer (d. 2007) | |||
| * 1928 – ], English astronomer (d. 2003) | |||
| *] – ], British businessman and peer | |||
| *] – ], American politician | |||
| *] – ], Greek discus thrower | |||
| * 1937 – ], American actor | |||
| *] – ], American author | |||
| * 1939 – ], former ] | |||
| * 1939 – ], American musician (d.1984) | |||
| * 1939 – ], American singer | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| *] – ], Finnish writer | |||
| *] – ], English conductor | |||
| * 1943 – ], American actress (d. 1971) | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| * 1945 – ], American football player and coach | |||
| *] – ], French Canadian actor | |||
| * 1946 – ], American racecar driver (d. 1982) | |||
| * 1946 – ], American voice actor | |||
| *] – ], Swedish singer (]) | |||
| * 1947 – ], English record producer and recording engineer | |||
| * 1947 – ], American journalist and author | |||
| * 1947 – ], British actor, director and screenwriter | |||
| *] – ], American musician (] & ]) | |||
| * 1948 – ], American actor | |||
| * 1948 – ], French Canadian politician | |||
| *] – ], 76th Prime Minister of Italy | |||
| * 1949 – ], American actress | |||
| * 1949 – ], Canadian figure skater and artist | |||
| * 1949 – ], American actress | |||
| *] – ], American novelist | |||
| * 1950 – ], Russian general and politician (d. 2002) | |||
| * 1950 – ], Indian politician | |||
| *] – ], American singer (d. 2005) | |||
| *] – ], Serbian basketball coach | |||
| *] – ], British novelist | |||
| *] – ], French-Canadian ice hockey player | |||
| *] – ], American Astronaut and Inventor | |||
| *] – ], Swedish politician | |||
| *] – ], Welsh-born Canadian actor | |||
| *] – ], Russian ice hockey player | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| *] – ], American baseball player | |||
| * 1961 – ], Russian actor | |||
| * 1961 – ], American radio host, writer, and musician | |||
| *] – ], American radio personality | |||
| *] – ] (AKA: Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), American radio personality (d. 2001) | |||
| *] – ], Brazilian racing driver | |||
| * 1963 – ], British biomedical gerontologist | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| * 1964 – ], English actor | |||
| * 1964 – ], American figure skater | |||
| *] – ], Greek politician | |||
| * 1965 – ], Mexican racing driver | |||
| * 1965 – ], American musician | |||
| *] – ], Australian philosopher | |||
| *] – ], Dutch darts player | |||
| * 1967 – ], American drummer (]) | |||
| * 1967 – ], American actress | |||
| *] – ], American game show host and television personality | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| * 1970 – ], Brazilian rodeo performer | |||
| *] – ], English singer | |||
| * 1971 – ], Dutch swimmer | |||
| * 1971 – ], American basketball player | |||
| *] – ], American actress | |||
| * 1972 – ], Vietnamese footballer | |||
| * 1972 – ], Serbian singer, songwriter and producer | |||
| * 1972 – ], Jamaican musician | |||
| *] – ], British radio presenter | |||
| *] – ], Irish footballer | |||
| * 1976 – ], American actor | |||
| * 1976 – ], Canadian ice hockey goaltender | |||
| *] – ], professional wrestler | |||
| *] – ], Japanese gravure idol | |||
| *] – ], Taiwanese singer (]) | |||
| *] – ], American Mixed Martial Artist | |||
| *] – ], German singer | |||
| * 1980 – ], American baseball player | |||
| *] – ], male fitness model | |||
| *] – ], American basketball player | |||
| * 1983 – ], American television host | |||
| * 1983 – ], Irish/English Actress | |||
| * 1983 – ], Australian supermodel | |||
| *] – ], American mixed martial artist | |||
| *] – ], American Skateboarder | |||
| *] – ], New Zealand director (d. 2003) | |||
| *] – ], American actor | |||
| *] – ], English school boy | |||
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April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 255 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
- 1303 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
- 1535 – The Sun Dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting "Vädersolstavlan"
- 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, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
- 1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory.
- 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton was concluded, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle was upheld.
- 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- 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 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
- 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 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 – Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
- 1916 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
- 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.
- 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".
- 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
- 1964 – BBC Two launches with the power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 – Apollo 16 landed on the moon commanded by John Young.
- 1978 – Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by Soviets.
- 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 1984 – Good Friday Massacre was a horrific ice hockey playoff game in Montreal, Canada.
- 1985 – ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
- 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 1986 – Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in an NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
- 1998 – German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
- 2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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)
- 1873 – William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
- 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
- 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
- 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)
- 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
- 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
- 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
- 1947 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
- 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American 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 singer and songwriter (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
- 1991 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
- 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 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
- 1999 – Eric David Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
- 1999 – Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
- 1999 – Cassie Bernall, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
- 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
- 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 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
- 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 (b. 1988)
- 2007 – Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
- 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
- 2007 – Fred Fish, a computer programmer on the GNU Debugger and "Fish disks" (b. 1952)
- 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (b. 1976)
- 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
Holidays and observances
- 4/20, a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.
- Christian Feast Day
- L. Ron Hubbard Exhibition Day (Church of Scientology)
- Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith)
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