Historical Events In April - 20

1861  Robert E Lee resigns from Union army on April - 20.   

1861  On April - 20 battle of Norfolk, VA   

1862  The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on this day in history.   

1865  On this day in history safety matches were first advertised this day.   

1865  On this day in history chicago's Crosby Opera House opens   

1866  On this day in history victor Hollaender, composer   

1869  On April - 20 johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72   

1870  Simeon Roncal, composer on April - 20.   

1871  3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) on this day in history.   

1871  William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) on this day in history.   

1872  SF Bar Association organized on this day in history.   

1872  On April - 20 ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62   

1876  Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange) on April - 20.   

1879  The first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus on April - 20.   

1879  On this day in history 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus   

1879  On April - 20 robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)   

1881  Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us) on this day in history.   

1884  On this day in history pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"   

1888  246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India on April - 20.   

1889  The birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany on this day in history.   

1889  Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45) on April - 20.   

1890  Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65) on this day in history.   

1893  On this day in history the birth of Harold Lloyd, American silent film star   

1893  The birth of Joan Miro, Spanish artist on April - 20.   

1893  Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last) on this day in history.   

1894  136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase on April - 20.   

1894  On this day in history martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)   

1896  1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1896  On April - 20 senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)   

1897  Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) on April - 20.   

1898  On April - 20 uS Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens   

1900  Fred Raymond, composer on April - 20.   

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on this day in history.   

1901  Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist on April - 20.   

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0702  On April - 20 birth of jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)   

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on this day in history.   

1494  On April - 20 birth of john Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister   

1586  On this day in history birth of saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)   

1592  John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author was born on April - 20.   

1594  On this day in history birth of matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer   

1633  On April - 20 birth of emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)   

1646  On this day in history birth of charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)   

1164  Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies on this day in history.   

1176  Death of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) on April - 20.   

1314  On this day in history clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies   

1317  Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies on April - 20.   

1521  On April - 20 death of zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)   

1534  Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies on this day in history.   

1558  On April - 20 death of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)   

1632  Death of Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake on April - 20.