Notable Historical Events on April 20th
April 20th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
295 |
8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
850 |
Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne |
1139 |
2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome |
1505 |
Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg |
1551 |
John Dudley becomes Earl Marshal of England |
1611 |
First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London recorded by Simon Forman |
1650 |
Dutch East India Company (VOC) management sets new guidelines |
1653 |
Cromwell routes English parliament to house |
1657 |
Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet |
1689 |
The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry. |
1702 |
Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth |
1715 |
Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey" premieres in London |
1736 |
French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins his expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of latitude and prove the shape of the earth, he is joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Claude Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier |
1759 |
George Frederic Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey, London |
1770 |
Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales |
1775 |
British begin siege of Boston |
1777 |
New York adopts new constitution as an independent state |
1792 |
France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia |
1799 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premieres in Weimar |
1809 |
Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria |
1810 |
The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain. |
1828 |
René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou. |
1836 |
Territory of Wisconsin created |
1841 |
1st detective story (Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published |
1861 |
Battle of Norfolk, VA |
1862 |
The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. |
1865 |
Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens |
1871 |
3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) |
1872 |
SF Bar Association organized |
1879 |
1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus |
1884 |
Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" |
1888 |
246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India |
1894 |
136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase |
1896 |
1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres in NYC |
1898 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens |
1902 |
Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride |
1903 |
7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8 |
1904 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" premieres in London |
1904 |
Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis |
1908 |
12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2 |
1908 |
Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League. |
1910 |
Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0 |
1910 |
Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km |
1912 |
Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11 |
1912 |
Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5 |
1914 |
18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2 |
1914 |
33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo |
1914 |
US President W Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asks a joint session of Congress to approve armed force if necessary; Congress approves |
1915 |
The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians relieve them on 19 May; thousands of Armenians are killed |
1916 |
German-British sea battle off Belgian coast |
1916 |
Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Cubs beat Cin Reds 7-6 |
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. |
1919 |
Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army |
1920 |
7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium |
1920 |
Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate |
1920 |
Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio |
1920 |
Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi |
1920 |
Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3- run homer beats NY Giants 3-0 |
1925 |
29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6 |
1926 |
1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic |
1931 |
35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8 |
1931 |
British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday |
1934 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police |
1935 |
"Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly) |
1936 |
40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8 |
1936 |
Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine |
1939 |
Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double |
1940 |
1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa |
1941 |
100 German bombers attack Athens |
1941 |
Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps |
1942 |
German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach |
1942 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1943 |
Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg |
1944 |
Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death |
1944 |
NFL legalizes coaching from bench |
1945 |
Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride |
1945 |
German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer |
1945 |
Soviet troops enter Berlin |
1945 |
US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg |
1945 |
US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa |
1946 |
1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs |
1946 |
50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27 |
1947 |
Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark |
1948 |
NYC hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents |
1948 |
Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit |
1949 |
Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California |
1950 |
Balt's Memorial Stadium opens - Orioles of International League |
1951 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1951 |
Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators |
1953 |
57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51 |
1954 |
"Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances |
1955 |
"Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs |
1957 |
61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05 |
1957 |
Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway |
1958 |
Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM |
1958 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1958 |
Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup |
1958 |
Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops |
1959 |
63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42 |
1960 |
"From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances |
1961 |
American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight |
1962 |
NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m |
1962 |
New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North |
1962 |
OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers |
1963 |
"Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1963 |
-30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda |
1964 |
68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59 |
1964 |
86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools |
1965 |
People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid |
1966 |
WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting |
1967 |
French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia |
1967 |
NY Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1 |
1967 |
US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon |
1967 |
US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War |
1967 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1967 |
A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126. |
1968 |
S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed |
1968 |
English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
1968 |
Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister |
1969 |
23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win |
1969 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1969 |
Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh |
1970 |
74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 |
1970 |
Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria |
1970 |
Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record |
1971 |
Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun" |
1971 |
US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation |
1972 |
Apollo 16's Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2 |
1972 |
Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
1973 |
Mass murderer Ed Kemper attempted to dispose of his mother's vocal chords in a domestic waste disposal unit. |
1973 |
Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit |
1974 |
Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run" |
1974 |
'The Troubles', a period of conflict in Northern Ireland involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the British security forces, and civil rights groups. claims its 1000th victim |
1975 |
29th Tony Awards: Equus & Wiz win |
1975 |
4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer |
1975 |
Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead |
1976 |
George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python |
1977 |
Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses |
1977 |
Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres |
1977 |
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1980 |
Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift |
1980 |
Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament |
1980 |
Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested. |
1981 |
10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46 |
1981 |
85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26 |
1981 |
Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs |
1981 |
Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession |
1982 |
Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season |
1982 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast, Derry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured |
1983 |
President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
1983 |
Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
1983 |
Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock |
1983 |
Soyuz T-8 is launched (lands 2 days later) |
1984 |
Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan |
1985 |
Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12) |
1985 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams |
1985 |
Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift |
1985 |
ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas. |
1986 |
"Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances |
1986 |
Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1986 |
Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland |
1987 |
16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 |
1987 |
91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50 |
1987 |
Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead |
1987 |
US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes |
1988 |
Balt Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21) |
1988 |
NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten |
1988 |
US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians |
1988 |
Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke) |
1990 |
Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income |
1990 |
8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips |
1991 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Odense Teater, Odense |
1991 |
1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire |
1991 |
Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85) |
1991 |
Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million |
1992 |
100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs |
1992 |
21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43 |
1992 |
96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14 |
1992 |
All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium |
1992 |
Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain |
1992 |
Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse |
1992 |
Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner |
1993 |
Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years) |
1994 |
Danny Harold Rolling sentenced to death in Florida for killing 5 |
1994 |
Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed |
1994 |
Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263 |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands |
1996 |
Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season |
1997 |
"Gin Game" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances |
1997 |
"Present Laughter" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC |
1997 |
1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader |
1997 |
27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682 |
1997 |
58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin |
1997 |
Cubs beat NY Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games |
1997 |
Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International |
1997 |
Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic |
1997 |
Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic |
1997 |
PGA Seniors Championship |
1997 |
Mark McGwire is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder) |
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 |
Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado. |
2004 |
In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92. |
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. |
2010 |
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico. |
2012 |
Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people |
2012 |
40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico |
2013 |
193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China |
2013 |
5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado |
2013 |
Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy |
2016 |
Thousands rally to call for release of Israeli soldier who shot Palestinian assailant |
2016 |
House leader wants review of 9/11 bill that would let Americans sue Saudis |
2016 |
Aftershocks bring misery for Japan quake survivors; death toll to 47 |
2016 |
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Win Easily in New York |
2017 |
Bill O'Reilly out at Fox after harassment allegations |
2017 |
China criticizes North Korea, praises US on nuclear issue |
2017 |
Russia vetoes UN statement on North Korea's missile tests |
2017 |
China Defends Trademark Grants For Ivanka Trump Products |
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