About April 20
April 20, 2022 is the 110th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 277 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.
- 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”.
- 1653 –Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1689 –The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1770 –The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- 1908 –Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1926 –Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
- 1964 –BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968 –English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 –Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 1978 –Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
- 1985 –The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
- 2008 –Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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