About April 20
April 20, 2025 is the 110th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 255 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 303 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.
- 1689 –The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 1770 –The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1912 –Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1916 –The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
- 1922 –The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
- 1961 –Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
- 1964 –BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
- 1968 –English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
- 1972 –Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
- 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.
- 2007 –Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
- 2008 –Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
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