Page 3: Historical Events In April - 20

1861  Robert E Lee steps down from Union army   

1861  Battle of Norfolk, VA.   

1862  The inaugural pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard   

1865  Safety matches were inaugural advertised this day.   

1865  Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens   

1866  Victor Hollaender, composer   

1869  Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72.   

1870  Simeon Roncal, composer.   

1871  3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus).   

1871  William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)   

1872  SF Bar Association organized.   

1872  Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62   

1876  Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange).   

1879  The inaugural mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus   

1879  1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus   

1879  Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)   

1881  Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us).   

1884  Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry".   

1888  246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India   

1889  Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany is born.   

1889  Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)   

1890  Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)   

1893  Harold Lloyd, American silent film star is born.   

1893  Joan Miro, Spanish artist is born   

1893  Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)   

1894  136000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase   

1894  Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)   

1896  1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC   

1896  Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)   

1897  Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh).   

1898  US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens.   

1900  Fred Raymond, composer.   

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies   

1901  Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist   

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0702  Jafar sadiq: Muslim scholar   

1442  Edward iv: King (england, 1461-83)   

1494  John agricola: [schneider], german theologist/prime minister   

1586  Saint rose of lima: Peruvian saint   

1592  John eliot: St germans cornwall, english mp/author   

1594  Matthaus apelles von lowenstern: Composer   

1633  Emperor go-komyo of japan: Emperor go-komyo of japan (d. 1654)   

1646  Charles plumier: French botanist   

1164  Victor iv: [ottaviano montecello], italian antipope (1159-64),   

1176  Richard de clare: 2nd earl of pembroke, english soldier (b. 1130)   

1314  Clement v: [bertrand got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to avignon,   

1317  Death of Agnes van montepulciano: Italian mystic/saint,   

1521  Zhengde: Emperor of china (b. 1491)   

1534  Death of Elizabeth barton: [st magd van kent], british prophet,   

1558  Death of Johannes bugenhagen: German reformer (b. 1485)   

1632  Death of Nicolas antione: Converted to judiasm, burned at the stake