Page 3: Historical Events In April - 20

1861  On April - 20 robert E Lee resigns from Union army   

1861  On April - 20 battle of Norfolk, VA   

1862  The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on April - 20.   

1865  On April - 20 safety matches were first advertised this day.   

1865  On this day in history chicago's Crosby Opera House opens   

1866  Victor Hollaender, composer on April - 20.   

1869  On April - 20 johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72   

1870  Simeon Roncal, composer on April - 20.   

1871  On April - 20 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)   

1871  William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) on April - 20.   

1872  On this day in history sF Bar Association organized   

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 April - 20.   

1879  On April - 20 the first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history the birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany   

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

1890  On this day in history adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)   

1893  The birth of Harold Lloyd, American silent film star on April - 20.   

1893  The birth of Joan Miro, Spanish artist on April - 20.   

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

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

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

1896  On April - 20 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC   

1896  Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door) on April - 20.   

1897  On April - 20 bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)   

1898  On April - 20 uS Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens   

1900  Fred Raymond, composer on this day in history.   

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

1901  Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist on this day in history.   

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on April - 20.   

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on this day in history.   

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  John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author was born on this day in history.   

1594  Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  Death of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) on April - 20.   

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

1317  On this day in history agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies   

1521  Death of Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491) on April - 20.   

1534  On this day in history elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies   

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

1632  Death of Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake on April - 20.