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
- 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.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
- 1657 –Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1836 –U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
- 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.
- 1918 –Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 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.
- 1946 –The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
- 1968 –English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 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.
- 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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