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
- 1453 –The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
- 1534 –Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
- 1535 –The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting “Vädersolstavlan”.
- 1653 –Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
- 1657 –Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
- 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.
- 1828 –René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
- 1836 –U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
- 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.
- 1884 –Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
- 1908 –Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- 1939 –Adolf Hitler’s 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
- 1939 –Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song “Strange Fruit”.
- 1945 –World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
- 1980 –Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
- 1984 –The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
- 1999 –Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
- 2010 –The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last five months.
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