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
- 1526 –The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
- 1657 –Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1862 –Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
- 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.
- 1884 –Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
- 1902 –Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
- 1914 –19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
- 1998 –German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
- 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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