About April 20

April 20, 2021 is the 110th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 287 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.
  • 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”.
  • 1770 –
    The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
  • 1775 –
    American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • 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.
  • 1810 –
    The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
  • 1818 –
    The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, 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 first pasteurization tests.
  • 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.
  • 1884 –
    Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
  • 1912 –
    Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 1916 –
    The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
  • 1918 –
    Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
  • 1926 –
    Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
  • 1939 –
    Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song “Strange Fruit”.
  • 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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