About April 20
April 20, 2024 is the 111th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 284 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 20
- 1526 –The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
- 1535 –The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”.
- 1657 –Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 1689 –The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1809 –Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810 –The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 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 first pasteurization tests.
- 1871 –The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1876 –The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1912 –Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1922 –The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1945 –World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1961 –Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
- 1972 –Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1980 –Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 1984 –The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- 1999 –Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
- 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.
- 2010 –The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last five months.
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