April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY
NATIONAL LOOK ALIKE DAY
1534 – French explorer, Jacques Cartier, begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, the island of Newfoundland and Labrador.
1535 – The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration
1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration
1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends in England, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
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 experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law under President Ulysses S. Grant.
1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
1945 – World War II ― Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
1999 – The Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 21 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning a subsea oil spill that would last six months.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
2015 – 10 people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
BORN TODAY
1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln Memorial statue (d. 1931)
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German soldier, politician, war criminal, Chancellor the Furher of Germany (d. 1945)
1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
1920 – John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands.
2015 – 10 people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
BORN TODAY
1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln Memorial statue (d. 1931)
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German soldier, politician, war criminal, Chancellor the Furher of Germany (d. 1945)
1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
1920 – John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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