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
- 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.
- 1657 –Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 1689 –The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1810 –The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1865 –Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
- 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.
- 1902 –Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1961 –Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
- 1980 –Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 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.
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