About April 20

April 20, 2024 is the 111th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 284 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On April 20

  • 1526 –
    The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
  • 1535 –
    The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”.
  • 1657 –
    Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
  • 1770 –
    The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
  • 1775 –
    American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • 1809 –
    Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
  • 1810 –
    The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
  • 1828 –
    René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
  • 1836 –
    U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
  • 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.
  • 1862 –
    Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
  • 1865 –
    Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX’s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
  • 1871 –
    The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
  • 1876 –
    The April Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1884 –
    Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
  • 1902 –
    Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • 1922 –
    The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
  • 1946 –
    The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
  • 1980 –
    Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
  • 1998 –
    German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.

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