Page 3: Historical Events In April - 20

1861  On April - 20 robert E Lee resigns from Union army   

1861  Battle of Norfolk, VA on this day in history.   

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

1865  Safety matches were first advertised this day on April - 20.   

1865  On April - 20 chicago's Crosby Opera House opens   

1866  On April - 20 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 April - 20.   

1872  On this day in history sF Bar Association organized   

1872  Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 on April - 20.   

1876  On this day in history gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)   

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

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

1879  On this day in history robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)   

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

1884  Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry" on April - 20.   

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

1889  On this day in history the birth of Adolf Hitler, Dictator of Germany   

1889  Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45) on this day in history.   

1890  On April - 20 adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)   

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

1893  On this day in history the birth of Joan Miro, Spanish artist   

1893  On April - 20 harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last)   

1894  136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase on this day in history.   

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 April - 20.   

1896  Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door) on this day in history.   

1897  Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh) on this day in history.   

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

1900  Fred Raymond, composer on April - 20.   

1900  On this day in history mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies   

1901  On April - 20 michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist   

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0702  On this day in history birth of jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)   

1442  On April - 20 birth of edward IV, King (England, 1461-83)   

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

1586  Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.   

1592  On this day in history birth of john Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author   

1594  Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 April - 20.   

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

1314  Clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies on April - 20.   

1317  On this day in history agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies   

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 this day in history death of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)   

1632  Death of Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake on this day in history.