Historical Events In April - 20

1861  Robert E Lee resigns from Union army on April - 20.   

1861  On April - 20 battle of Norfolk, VA   

1862  On this day in history the first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.   

1865  Safety matches were first advertised this day on this day in history.   

1865  Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens on this day in history.   

1866  Victor Hollaender, composer on April - 20.   

1869  On this day in history johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72   

1870  On April - 20 simeon Roncal, composer   

1871  On this day in history 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)   

1871  On April - 20 william Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)   

1872  SF Bar Association organized on this day in history.   

1872  On April - 20 ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62   

1876  Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange) on this day in history.   

1879  The first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus on this day in history.   

1879  1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus on April - 20.   

1879  Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance) on April - 20.   

1881  Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us) on this day in history.   

1884  On April - 20 pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"   

1888  On April - 20 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India   

1889  On April - 20 the birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany   

1889  On April - 20 adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)   

1890  On April - 20 adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)   

1893  On this day in history the birth of Harold Lloyd, American silent film star   

1893  On this day in history the birth of Joan Miro, Spanish artist   

1893  On April - 20 harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)   

1894  136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase on April - 20.   

1894  On April - 20 martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)   

1896  On this day in history 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC   

1896  On this day in history senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)   

1897  Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) on April - 20.   

1898  US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens on April - 20.   

1900  On this day in history fred Raymond, composer   

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on this day in history.   

1901  On April - 20 michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist   

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on this day in history.   

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on April - 20.   

1494  On April - 20 birth of john Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister   

1586  On this day in history birth of saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)   

1592  On this day in history birth of john Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author   

1594  On this day in history birth of matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer   

1633  On April - 20 birth of emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)   

1646  Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) was born on April - 20.   

1164  On April - 20 victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies   

1176  On April - 20 death of richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)   

1314  Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies on this day in history.   

1317  Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies on April - 20.   

1521  Death of Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491) on this day in history.   

1534  Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies on this day in history.   

1558  Death of Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) on this day in history.   

1632  On April - 20 death of nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake