Historical Events on April 20, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on April 20th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2021 | State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota. |
| 2020 | For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero. |
| 2015 | Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland. |
| 2013 | A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing more than 150 people and injuring thousands. |
| 2012 | One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan. |
| 2010 | The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. |
| 2008 | Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. |
| 2007 | Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. |
| 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 Columbine, Colorado. |
| 1998 | Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board. |
| 1972 | Apollo program: Apollo 16 lunar module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the moon. |
| 1968 | English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
| 1968 | South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people. |
| 1961 | Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba. |
| 1946 | The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations. |
| 1945 | World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. |
| 1945 | World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth. |
| 1945 | Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school. |
| 1922 | The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR. |
| 1918 | Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. |
| 1914 | Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War. |
| 1902 | Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. |
| 1898 | U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War. |
| 1884 | Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry. |
| 1876 | The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War. |
| 1865 | Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion. |
| 1862 | Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation. |
| 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. |
| 1861 | Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina. |
| 1836 | U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory. |
| 1828 | René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive. |
| 1809 | Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory. |
| 1800 | The Septinsular Republic is established. |
| 1792 | France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars. |
| 1789 | George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration. |
| 1775 | American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord. |
| 1770 | The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza. |
| 1752 | Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57). |
| 1657 | English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. |
| 1657 | Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City). |
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. |
| 1303 | The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII. |
Famous People Born on April 20
Here is a random list who born on April 20. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Alan Beith, English academic and politician |
| 1816 | Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895) |
| 1938 | Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (d. 2017) |
| 1946 | Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (d. 1982) |
| 1963 | Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor |
| 1928 | Johnny Gavin, Irish international footballer (d. 2007) |
| 1826 | Dinah Craik, English author and poet (d. 1887) |
| 1966 | David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo! |
| 1904 | Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 1948 | Gregory Itzin, American actor (d. 2022) |
Famous People Deaths On April 20
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 20. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1643 | Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567) |
| 1248 | Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1206) |
| 1703 | Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632) |
| 2003 | Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| 2012 | Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920) |
| 1534 | Elizabeth Barton, English nun and martyr (b. 1506) |
| 1951 | Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873) |
| 1284 | Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251) |
| 2008 | Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923) |
| 1945 | Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (b. 1874) |
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