April, 20th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 20, 2004:
2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars were fired on Abu Ghraib Prision by insurgents. 22 detainees were killed and 92 wounded. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04-20-iraq_x.htm

Saturday 20, 2002:
The Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition holds its first Community Smoke-In for Human Rights in Darwin, Australia. Police arrest five activists.

Friday 20, 2001:
Anti-globalization marches and a "People's Summit" are held to protest the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, a FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec.

Tuesday 20, 1999:
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the Columbine High School massacre.

Monday 20, 1998:
German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.

Sunday 20, 1997:
The San Diego Padres face the St. Louis Cardinals in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Hawaii.

Monday 20, 1992:
An all-star concert in memory of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury is held at Wembley Stadium in London.

Friday 20, 1979:
President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Swamp Rabbit while on vacation in Plains, Georgia.

Thursday 20, 1978:
Korean Air Flight 902 shot down by Soviets.

Thursday 20, 1972:
Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.

Saturday 20, 1968:
English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood Speech.

Thursday 20, 1967:
A Swiss Britannia turboprop crashes at Toronto, Canada, killing 126.

Friday 20, 1945:
US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.

Tuesday 20, 1926:
Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.

Saturday 20, 1918:
Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.

Monday 20, 1914:
Seventeen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a bitter Colorado coal-miner's strike.

Saturday 20, 1912:
Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

Monday 20, 1908:
Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.

Sunday 20, 1902:
Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.

Sunday 20, 1884:
Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical, Humanum Genus.

Sunday 20, 1862:
The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.

Saturday 20, 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.

Wednesday 20, 1836:
U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.

Friday 20, 1792:
France declares war on Austria.

Thursday 20, 1775:
American Revolutionary War: British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts

Friday 20, 1770:
Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian coastline, naming the spot Cape Hicks. His logbook recorded the date as April 19, but the 20th was the actual calendar date.

Wednesday 20, 1689:
The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

Friday 20, 1657:
Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City) granted freedom of religion.

Sunday 20, 1653:
Oliver Cromwell grows sick with a broken pelvis.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/20-april/on-this-day.html


People born on April 20

1980:
Jasmin Wagner, German singer (b: April 20, 1980) (Biography of Jasmin Wagner)

1976:
Joey Lawrence, American actor (b: April 20, 1976) (Biography of Joey Lawrence)

1972:
Carmen Electra, American actress (b: April 20, 1972) (Biography of Carmen Electra)

1971:
Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer (b: April 20, 1971) (Biography of Carla Geurts)

1967:
Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player (b: April 20, 1967) (Biography of Raymond van Barneveld)
Mike Portnoy, American musician (b: April 20, 1967) (Biography of Mike Portnoy)

1964:
Crispin Glover, American actor (b: April 20, 1964) (Biography of Crispin Glover)
Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater (b: April 20, 1964) (Biography of Rosalynn Sumners)
Andy Serkis, English actor (b: April 20, 1964) (Biography of Andy Serkis)

1961:
Don Mattingly, baseball player (b: April 20, 1961) (Biography of Don Mattingly)

1951:
Luther Vandross, American singer (b: April 20, 1951 ; d: July 1, 2005) (Biography of Luther Vandross)

1950:
Veronica Cartwright, American actress (b: April 20, 1950) (Biography of Veronica Cartwright)
Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general, politician (b: April 20, 1950) (Biography of Aleksandr Lebed)

1949:
Massimo D'Alema, Prime Minister of Italy (b: April 20, 1949) (Biography of Massimo D'Alema)
Jessica Lange, American actress (b: April 20, 1949) (Biography of Jessica Lange)

1945:
Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach (b: April 20, 1945) (Biography of Steve Spurrier)

1943:
John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor (b: April 20, 1943) (Biography of John Eliot Gardiner)
Edie Sedgwick, American actress (b: April 20, 1943 ; d: November 15, 1971) (Biography of Edie Sedgwick)

1941:
Ryan O'Neal, American actor (b: April 20, 1941) (Biography of Ryan O'Neal)

1940:
George Takei, American actor (b: April 20, 1940) (Biography of George Takei)

1939:
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway (b: April 20, 1939) (Biography of Gro Harlem Brundtland)
Peter S. Beagle, American author (b: April 20, 1939) (Biography of Peter S. Beagle)

1928:
Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (b: April 20, 1928) (Biography of Gerald S. Hawkins)

1927:
Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: April 20, 1927) (Biography of Karl Alexander Müller)

1925:
Tito Puente, American musician (b: April 20, 1925 ; d: May 31, 2000) (Biography of Tito Puente)

1923:
Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster (b: April 20, 1923) (Biography of Mother Angelica)

1920:
John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b: April 20, 1920) (Biography of John Paul Stevens)

1918:
Edward L. Beach, American naval officer, author (b: April 20, 1918) (Biography of Edward L. Beach)
Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: April 20, 1918) (Biography of Kai Siegbahn)

1915:
Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (b: April 20, 1915) (Biography of Joseph Wolpe)

1914:
Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b: April 20, 1914 ; d: January 12, 1999) (Biography of Betty Lou Gerson)

1908:
Lionel Hampton, American musician (b: April 20, 1908 ; d: August 31, 2002) (Biography of Lionel Hampton)

1904:
Bruce Cabot, American actor (b: April 20, 1904) (Biography of Bruce Cabot)

1896:
Wop May, Canadian aviator (b: April 20, 1896 ; d: June 21, 1952) (Biography of Wop May)

1895:
Emile Christian, American musician (b: April 20, 1895 ; d: December 3, 1973) (Biography of Emile Christian)

1893:
Harold Lloyd, American actor (b: April 20, 1893 ; d: March 8, 1971) (Biography of Harold Lloyd)
Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b: April 20, 1893 ; d: December 25, 1983) (Biography of Joan Miró)

1889:
Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (b: April 20, 1889) (Biography of Albert Jean Amateau)
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator (b: April 20, 1889 ; d: April 30, 1945) (Biography of Adolf Hitler)

1879:
Paul Poiret, French couturier (b: April 20, 1879) (Biography of Paul Poiret)

1871:
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor, (b: April 20, 1871 ; d: February 5, 1922) (Biography of Slavoljub Eduard Penkala)

1818:
Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (b: April 20, 1818) (Biography of Heinrich Göbel)

1808:
Emperor Napoleon III of France (b: April 20, 1808 ; d: January 9, 1873) (Biography of Napoleon III of France)

1745:
Philippe Pinel, French physician (b: April 20, 1745) (Biography of Philippe Pinel)

1668:
Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b: April 20, 1668 ; d: September 8, 1739) (Biography of Yuri Troubetzkoy)

1650:
William Bedloe, English informer (b: April 20, 1650 ; d: August 20, 1680) (Biography of William Bedloe)

1633:
Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b: April 20, 1633 ; d: October 30, 1654) (Biography of Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan)

1494:
Johannes Agricola, German protestant reformer (b: April 20, 1494 ; d: September 22, 1566) (Biography of Johannes Agricola)

702:
Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (b: April 20, 702 ; d: December 4, 765) (Biography of Jafar Sadiq)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/20-april/births.html

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People who died on April 20

2003:
Bernard Katz (d: April 20, 2003) (Biography of Bernard Katz)
Fumio Niwa (d: April 20, 2003) (Biography of Fumio Niwa)

2002:
Alan Dale (singer) (d: April 20, 2002) (Biography of Alan Dale (singer))

2001:
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b: November 2, 1946 ; d: April 20, 2001) (Biography of Giuseppe Sinopoli)

1999:
List of victims of the Columbine High School massacre (d: April 20, 1999) (Biography of List of victims of the Columbine High School massacre)
Señor Wences (d: April 20, 1999) (Biography of Señor Wences)
Richard Rood (d: April 20, 1999) (Biography of Richard Rood)

1996:
Christopher Robin Milne (d: April 20, 1996) (Biography of Christopher Robin Milne)

1993:
Cantinflas, Mexican actor (b: August 12, 1911 ; d: April 20, 1993) (Biography of Cantinflas)

1992:
Benny Hill (d: April 20, 1992) (Biography of Benny Hill)

1991:
Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (b: January 30, 1947 ; d: April 20, 1991) (Biography of Steve Marriott)
Don Siegel, American director (b: October 26, 1912 ; d: April 20, 1991) (Biography of Don Siegel)

1984:
Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b: February 24, 1943 ; d: April 20, 1984) (Biography of Hristo Prodanov)

1982:
Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b: May 7, 1892 ; d: April 20, 1982) (Biography of Archibald MacLeish)

1951:
Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b: October 18, 1873 ; d: April 20, 1951) (Biography of Ivanoe Bonomi)

1947:
King Christian X of Denmark (b: September 26, 1870 ; d: April 20, 1947) (Biography of Christian X of Denmark)

1932:
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b: August 27, 1858 ; d: April 20, 1932) (Biography of Giuseppe Peano)

1918:
Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: June 6, 1850 ; d: April 20, 1918) (Biography of Karl Ferdinand Braun)

1912:
Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (b: November 8, 1847 ; d: April 20, 1912) (Biography of Bram Stoker)

1873:
William Tite (d: April 20, 1873) (Biography of William Tite)

1831:
John Abernethy (surgeon) (b: April 3, 1764 ; d: April 20, 1831) (Biography of John Abernethy (surgeon))

1769:
Chief Pontiac (d: April 20, 1769) (Biography of Chief Pontiac)

1765:
Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b: July 12, 1674 ; d: April 20, 1765) (Biography of Abigail Williams)

1703:
Lancelot Addison (d: April 20, 1703) (Biography of Lancelot Addison)

1643:
Christoph Demantius, German composer (b: December 15, 1567 ; d: April 20, 1643) (Biography of Christoph Demantius)

1558:
Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b: June 24, 1485 ; d: April 20, 1558) (Biography of Johannes Bugenhagen)

1534:
Elizabeth Barton (d: April 20, 1534) (Biography of Elizabeth Barton)

1521:
Zhengde, Emperor of China (b: October 26, 1491 ; d: April 20, 1521) (Biography of Zhengde)

1314:
Pope Clement V (d: April 20, 1314) (Biography of Pope Clement V)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/20-april/deaths.html