About April 20
April 20, 2023 is the 110th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 296 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 20
- 1323 –The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
- 1453 –The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
- 1526 –The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
- 1535 –The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”.
- 1792 –France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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.
- 1828 –René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1918 –Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1922 –The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1926 –Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1939 –Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song “Strange Fruit”.
- 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.
- 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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