On this day in History - Apr. 20
- 0121 - Marcus Aurelius was born (d. 0180). 16th Roman emperor, philosopher. He authored the “Meditations.”
- 0571 - Muhammad was born (d. 0634) Founder of Islam / Data em que algumas tradições islâmicas fixam o nascimento do profeta Maomé
- 0702 - Jafar Sadiq was born (d. 0765). Muslim scholar.
- 1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke dies (b. 1130). English soldier.
- 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1314 - Pope Clement V [Bertrand Got] dies (b. 1264). Pope (1305- 1314) who moved papacy to Avignon.
- 1317 - Agnes van Montepulciano dies. Italian mystic and saint
- 1442 - Edward IV was born. King of England (1461-83).
- 1494 - Johannes Agricola was born (d. 1566). German protestant reformer
- 1521 - Zhengde dies (b. 1491). Emperor of China.
- 1534 - Elizabeth Barton, the mystical "Nun of Kent", is executed at Tyburn. Christian prophet, visionary (b. 1506) .
- 1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen dies (b. 1485). German reformer.
- 1586 - Saint Rose of Lima was born (d. 1617). Peruvian saint.
- 1592 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall was born . English MP/author.
- 1594 - Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern was born. Composer .
- 1632 - Nicolas Antione, converted to Judaism, was burned at the stake .
- 1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan was born (d. 1654) .
- 1643 - Christoph Demantius dies (b. 1567). German composer.
- 1650 - William Bedloe was born (d. 1680). English informer.
- 1653 - Oliver Cromwell disbands Parliament.
- 1657 - Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 1668 - Yuri Troubetzkoy was born (d. 1739). Governor of Belgorod.
- 1677 - Mathieu Le Nain “le Chevalier” dies (b. 1607). French Baroque painter, younger brother of Antoine Le Nain [1588 – 25 May 1648] and Louis Le Nain [1593 – 23 May 1648]. All three worked together and their individual works cannot be distinguished.
- 1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry .
- 1693 - Claudio Coello dies (b. 1642). Spanish Baroque painter and draftsman.
- 1703 - Lancelot Addison dies (b. 1632). English royal chaplain.
- 1705 - Balthasar Schmid was born. Composer .
- 1709 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão ensaia, no Terreiro do Paço em Lisboa, o seu aeróstato.
- 1718 - David Brainerd was born (d. 1747). American missionary.
- 1723 - Cornelius Harnett was born (d. 1781). American delegate to the Continental Congress.
- 1725 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler was born. Composer.
- 1726 - Jozef de Ferraris was born (d. 1814). French/Austrian earl, general, cartographer .
- 1743 - Alexandre-François Desportes dies (b. 24 Feb 1661). He was the most eminent painter of dogs, game, emblems of the hunt, and still-lifes in late 17th- and early 18th-century France.
- 1745 - Philippe Pinel was born (d. 1826). Physician, founder of psychiatry .
- 1748 - Georg Michael Telemann was born. Composer .
- 1748 - Guillaume Albert Teniers was born. Composer .
- 1761 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier was born. Composer .
- 1765 - Abigail Williams dies (b. 1674). American accuser in the Salem witch trials.
- 1768 - Giovanni Antonio Canal, called "Canaletto" dies (b. 18 Oct 1697). Italian artist. ( The Doge Visiting the Church and Scuola di San Rocco; The Doge Visiting the Church and Scuola di San Rocco). Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Piazzetta.
- 1769 - Pontiac dies murdered by an Indian in Cahokia (b. ~1720) .Chief of the Ottawa tribe.
- 1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian coastline, naming the spot Cape Hicks. His logbook recorded the date as April 19, but the 20th was the actual calendar date.
- 1775 - American Revolutionary War: British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1777 - New York adopted a new constitution as an independent state.
- 1806 - Franz Xavier Winterhalter was born (d. 09 Jul 1873). German academic painter.
- 1807 - Aloysius Bertrand ("Gaspard de la Nuit"), French poet, was born.
- 1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) was born (d. 1873) .
- 1811 - El gobierno de Buenos Aires dicta el primer reglamento sobre libertad de imprenta.
- 1812 - George Clinton (73), the 4th vice president of the United States, died in Washington, becoming the first vice president to die while in office .
- 1818 - Heinrich Göbel was born (d. 1893). German-born inventor.
- 1821 - Franz K. Achard dies (b. 28 Apr 1753). German physicist and chemist.
- 1826 - Dinah Craik was born (d. 1887). English author.
- 1829 - Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje, was born (d. 06 Feb 1908). Dutch artist. ( A Moment by the Fire; The Butterfly; The Jewel Case )
- 1831 - Filippo Giuntotardi dies (b. 1768). Italian artist.
- 1831 - John Abernethy dies (b. 1764). English surgeon.
- 1832 - Ernst von Leyden was born (d. 1910) Physician.
- 1836 - U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory .
- 1836 - Johan I Jozef dies at 75. Monarch of Liechtenstein and field marshal.
- 1841 - The first detective story, Edgar Allen Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue is published in Philadelphia. .
- 1845 - Thomas Phillips dies (b. 18 Oct 1770). British artist. Byron in Arnaout Dress
- 1846 - Serpa Pinto was born (d. 28 Dec 1900). Portuguese explorer. / Nascimento, em Tendais, concelho de Cinfães, de Alexandre Alberto da Rocha Serpa Pinto - 1º. Visconde de Serpa Pinto, explorador português e governador colonial.
- 1850 - Daniel Chester French was born at Exeter, New Hampshire (d.1931). American sculptor of the Concord Minuteman. His work also included the Lincoln Memorial.
- 1851 - Young Tom Morris was born (d. 1875). Scottish golfer.
1853 - Antonio López de Santa Ana assume (pela 11º vez) a presidência do México . - 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
- 1868 - Charles Maurras was born (d. 1952). French poet and journalist.
- 1871 - Civil Rights Act of 1871
- 1871 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala was born (d. 1922). Croat inventor.
- 1873 - William Tite dies (b. 1798). English architect.
- 1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria.
- 1879 - Paul Poiret was born (d. 1944). French couturier.
- 1882 - Holland Smith was born (d. 1967). U.S. General.
- 1884 - Augusto dos Anjos was born (d. 1914). Brazilian poet. Ler aqui poemas de Augusto dos Anjos
- 1885 - Richard Ansdell dies (b. 11 May 1815). British painter (A Ewe with Lambs and a Heron Beside a Loch).
- 1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha dies in Graz, Austria (b. 1826). Egyptian statesman.
- 1888 - 246 people were reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India.
- 1889 - Albert Jean Amateau was born (d. 1996). Turkish-born businessman and social activist
- 1889 - Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau in Upper Austria. Founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazis), and German dictator, "Führer" and Reichskanzler He was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945 and started World War II by invading Poland.
- 1889 - Otto Heinrich Frank was born (d. 1980). Father of Anne Frank.
- 1890 - Maurice Duplessis was born (d. 1959). Premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef"
- 1891 - Caresse Crosby was born (d. 1970). American poet.
- 1893 - Joan Miró was born (d. 25 Dec 1983). Joàn Mirò Ferra, was a Catalan Surrealist painter and sculptor. One of the foremost exponents of abstract art and Surrealist fantasy.
- 1893 - Harold Lloyd was born (d. 1971). American actor, comedian. He is best remembered for his film "Safety Last."
- 1895 - Emile Christian was born (d. 1973). American musician.
- 1896 - Wop May was born (d. 1952). Canadian aviator.
- 1899 - Joseph Wolf dies (b. 1820). German artist.
- 1900 - Fred Raymond was born (d. 1954). Composer.
- 1904 - Bruce Cabot was born (d. 1972). American actor.
- 1904 - George Stibitz was born (d. 1995). American scientist.
- 1908 - Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League .
- 1908 - Lionel Hampton was born (d. 2002). American musician.
- 1912 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1912 - Bram Stoker dies (b. 1847). Irish author of Dracula .
- 1914 - Ludlow Massacre of striking Colorado coal miners: seventeen men, women, and children die.
- 1914 - Betty Lou Gerson was born (d. 1999). American actress.
- 1915 - Joseph Wolpe was born (d. 1997). South African-born psychotherapist.
- 1915 - Aurora Miranda was born. Brazilian actress, sister of Carmen Miranda.
- 1915 - Santiago Cogorno was born. Argentine painter and sculptor.
- 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1918 - Edward L. Beach was born (d. 2002). American naval officer, author.
- 1918 - Kai Siegbahn was born. Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun dies (b. 1850). German physicist, 1909 Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1920 - John Paul Stevens was born. U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- 1920 - Ronald Speirs was born. WWII Veteran.
- 1920 - Briton Rivière dies (b. 14 Aug 1840). British painter, etcher, and sculptor, specialized in animal paintings. ( The Long Sleep)
- 1921 - Janine Sutto was born. French Canadian actress
- 1923 - Mother Angelica was born. American nun and broadcaster
- 1923 - Tito Puente was born (d. 2000). American musician.
- 1923 - Rita Frances Rizzo was born in Canton, Ohio. She became Mother Angelica, Foundress of Eternal Word Television Network.
- 1923 - Suprimida na Itália a festa do 1º de Maio.
- 1924 - Leslie Phillips was born. English actor.
- 1925 - Ernie Stautner was born (d. 2006). German-born American football player.
- 1927 - Alex Müller was born. Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 - René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter in Timbouctou.
- 1928 - Gerald S. Hawkins was born (d. 2003). English astronomer .
- 1932 - Giuseppe Peano dies (b. 1858). Italian mathematician.
- 1937 - George Takei was born. American actor
- 1939 - Johnny Tillotson was born. American singer
- 1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland was born. Prime Minister of Norway .
- 1939 - Peter S. Beagle was born. American author.
- 1940 - George Takei was born. American actor ( Star Trek )
- 1941 - Ryan O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California. American actor .
- 1943 - John Eliot Gardiner was born. English conductor .
- 1943 - Edie Sedgwick was born (d. 1971). American actress.
- 1945 - World War II: U.S. B-29 bombers destroy the Musashi Aircraft plants. Halting production of the Nakajima Ki-84 fighter planes.
- 1945 - Steve Spurrier was born. American football player and coach.
- 1945 - Michael Brandon was borm. American actor
- 1946 - Julien Poulin was born. French Canadian actor
- 1947 - Björn Skifs was born. Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
- 1947 - Andrew Tobias was born. American journalist and author
- 1947 - David Leland was born. British actor, director and screenwriter
- 1947 - King Christian X of Denmark dies (b. 1870) .
- 1947 - Björn Skifs was born. Swedish singer (Blue Swede).
- 1948 - Adolf Lu Hitler Marak was born. Indian politician
- 1948 - Gregory Itzin was born. American actor
- 1948 - Rémy Trudel was born. French Canadian politician
- 1949 - Scientists at the Mayo Clinic announced they'd succeeded in synthesizing a hormone found to be useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis; the substance was named "cortisone."
- 1949 - Jessica Lange was born in Cloquet, Minnesota. American actress (King Kong -1976; The Postman Always Rings Twice -1981; Tootsie -1982; Cape Fear -1991, etc ).
- 1949 - Massimo D'Alema was born. Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1949 - Toller Cranston was born. Canadian figure skater and artist.
- 1950 - Humberto Coelho was born. Portuguese footballer and coach.
- 1950 - Veronica Cartwright was born. American actress.
- 1950 - Aleksandr Lebed was born (d. 2002). Russian general, politician.
- 1950 - Steve Erickson was born. American novelist
- 1951 - Luther Vandross was born New York, New York (d. 2005). American singer .
- 1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi dies (b. 1873). Former Prime Minister of Italy.
- 1953 - Project BLUEBIRD turns into Project MKULTRA.
- 1953 - The Boston marathon was won by Keizo Yamada with a record time of 2:18:51.
- 1954 - Gilles Lupien was born. French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 - Beatrice Ask was born. Swedish politician
- 1957 - Geraint Wyn Davies was born. American actor
- 1957 - Bryndís Áslaug Óttarsdóttir was born. Bókasafnsstjóri í Sólheimasafni
- 1958 - Viacheslav Fetisov was born. Russian ice hockey player
- 1960 - Inauguration of Brasilia.
- 1961 - Don Mattingly was born. Baseball player.
- 1961 - Konstantin Lavronenko was born. Russian actor.
- 1962 - Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf was born (d. 2001). Radio and television personality.
- 1962 - The Secret Army Organization (OAS) leader and ex-general Salan was arrested in Algiers
- 1963 - Mauricio Gugelmin was born. Brazilian racing driver
- 1964 - Crispin Glover was born. American actor.
- 1964 - Rosalynn Sumners was born. American figure skater.
- 1964 - Andy Serkis was born. English actor.
- 1964 - Eddie Dyer dies (b. 1899). Baseball player.
- 1965 - Ralph Cirella was born. Stylist and friend of Howard Stern.
- 1965 - Adrian Fernández was born. Mexican racing driver.
- 1967 - U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War.
- 1967 - Raymond van Barneveld was born. Dutch darts player
- 1967 - Mike Portnoy was born. American drummer (Dream Theater)
- 1967 - Lara Jill Miller was born. American actress
- 1968 - A South African Airways Boeing 707 crashes during takeoff at Windhoek, South-West Africa killing 122
- 1968 - Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada.
- 1968 - English politician Enoch Powell makes controversial Rivers of Blood Speech
- 1970 - Bruno Kreisky became the 1st socialist chancellor of Austria.
- 1970 - Paul Celan (49), Romanian-born poet, drowned himself in the Seine. English translations of his poems were published in 2001.
- 1970 - Regine Velasquez was born. Filipina singer and actress
- 1970 - Adriano Moraes was born. Brazilian rodeo performer
- 1971 - Carla Geurts was born. Dutch swimmer
- 1971 - Allan Houston was born. Basketball player
- 1971 - Fallece en Buenos Aires el pintor Mario Darío Grandi (n. 28 Oct 1918). Lo más característico de su obra son sus figuras al pastel, alargadas y espiritualizadas, de gran fineza lírica y notable sutileza de color.
- 1972 - Carmen Electra was born. American actress.
- 1975 - Brillante celebración de su aniversario número 50 tuvo Colo Colo, al ganar por 1-0 a Aviación e inaugurar su estadio que recibió a más de 40.000 espectadores
- 1976 - Joey Lawrence was born. American actor.
- 1976 - Shay Given was born. Irish footballer.
- 1977 - Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli was born. Professional wrestler.
- 1977 - Sepp Herberger dies (b. 1897). German football coach.
- 1978 - Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets.
- 1978 - Mirei Kuroda was born. Japanese gravure idol
- 1980 - Jasmin Wagner was born. German singer.
- 1981 - Matus Valent was born. Male fitness model.
- 1981 - Paulo Almeida Santos was born in Itarantim. Brazilian football player.
- 1982 - Archibald MacLeish dies (b. 1892). American poet and Librarian of Congress.
- 1984 - Hristo Prodanov dies. Bulgarian mountaineer.
- 1985 - In Roterdan, the Portuguese athlete Carlos Lopes establishes a new world record in Marathon
- 1985 - Tony Craig was born. English footballer.
- 1985 - Charles Francis Richter dies (b. 1900). American sismologist. VER
- 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.
- 1986 - Sibte Hassan dies (b. 1916). Pakistani activist, journalist and writer.
- 1987 - Sri Lanka: Tamils shot 122 Singhalese dead.
- 1988 - Gunmen who had hijacked a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet were allowed safe passage out of Algeria. An agreement also freed the remaining 31 hostages and ended a 15-day siege in which two passengers were slain.
- 1989 - Doru Davidovici dies (b. 1945). Romanian writer and Fighter Pilot.
- 1991 - Steve Marriott dies (b. 1945). British musician and actor.
- 1991 - Don Siegel dies (b. 1912). American film director.
- 1992 - An all-star concert in memory of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London .
- 1992 - Expo Sevilla is inaugurated by Don Juan Carlos
- 1992 - Benny Hill dies (b. 1924). British comedian.
- 1993 - Mario Moreno, the Mexican comedian known as Cantinflas, dies in Mexico City.
- 1994 - Serbian army bombed a hospital in Gorazde, Bosnia, and 47 were killed.
- 1994 - Jean Carmet dies (b. 1920). French actor.
- 1996 - Christopher Robin Milne dies, son of A.A. Milne, basis for the Winnie the Pooh character Christopher Robin.
- 1997 - The San Diego Padres face the St. Louis Cardinals in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Hawaii
- 1997 - Lameck Aguta of Kenya won the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:10:34. Ethiopia’s Fatuma Roba won the women’s best time at 2:26:24.
- 1998 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 1998 - An Air France Boeing 727-200 crashes into mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53
- 1998 - Moses Tanui of Kenya won of Kenya won the 102nd Boston Marathon in 2 hrs, 7 min . and 43 sec. Fatuma Roba of Ethiopia won among the women in 2:23:21.
- 1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the Columbine High School massacre
- 1999 - Madejczyk Massacre Averted, Bridgman, Michigan school shooting plot .
- 1999 - Rick Rude dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler.
- 1999 - Señor Wences dies (b. 1896). Spanish ventriloquist and comedian.
- 1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre
- 1999 - Rick Rude dies (b. 1958). American professional wrestler.
- 1999 - Señor Wences dies (b. 1896). Spanish ventriloquist and comedian.
- 2001 - In Peru an air force jet shot down a Cessna 185 carrying US missionaries. Veronica Bowers (35) and her infant daughter, Charity, were killed when the plane crash landed in the Amazon River. The plane was identified by a US surveillance plane and was believed to be trafficking in narcotics.
- 2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli dies (b. 1946). Italian conductor and composer.
- 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 .
- 2002 - The body of Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley is found in his Seattle apartment after dying from an apparent speedball overdose on April 5.
- 2002 - Alan Dale dies (b. 1925). American singer.
- 2003 - Ruth Hale dies (b. 1908). American playwright and actress.
- 2003 - Bernard Katz dies (b. 1911). German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2004 - Severe thunderstorms strike Chicagoland, USA. An F3 tornado touches down in Utica, Illinois, claiming 9 lives.
- 2004 - WorldCom emerged from bankruptcy renamed as MCI.
- 2004 - In Argentina a federal judge issued an international arrest warrant for former President Carlos Menem who has refused to appear for questioning in a corruption probe.
- 2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
- 2005 - Fumio Niwa dies (b. 1904). Japanese novelist.
- 2005 - Zygfryd Blaut dies (b. 1943). Polish football player.
- 2006 - Jordan Finkelstein
- Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith).
- National Smoke Marijuana Day: Many cannabis users smoke marijuana on April 20th, in keeping with the expression four-twenty. This has become a way to protest for the legalization of marijuana use and possession.
- International Earth Day in Eastern Daylight Time for 2007
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