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  The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard on April - 20.  

1865  On April - 20 safety matches were first advertised this day.  

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

1866  Victor Hollaender, composer on April - 20.  

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

1870  On April - 20 simeon Roncal, composer  

1871  3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) on April - 20.  

1871  William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp) on April - 20.  

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1872  SF Bar Association organized on April - 20.  

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

1881  On April - 20 nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)  

1884  On April - 20 pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Freemasonry"  

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

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

1893  Harold Lloyd, Burchard Neb, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last) on April - 20.  

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

1894  On April - 20 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  On this day in history bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)  

1898  US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens on April - 20.  

1900  On this day in history fred Raymond, composer  

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on April - 20.  

1901  Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist on this day in history.  

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on this day in history.  

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 April - 20.  

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

1594  On April - 20 birth of matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer  

1633  Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) was born on this day in history.  

1646  Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) was born on April - 20.  

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  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  Death of Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) on this day in history.  

1632  On April - 20 death of nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake